The San Francisco Bay Area is home to thousands of insect species, from ladybugs overwintering in your walls to hawk moths mistaken for hummingbirds to glowworms lighting up East Bay hillsides after ...

Many people, including Doug McConnell himself, would say he led a charmed life. And he did, but it came to a close in January ...

The parrots of San Francisco have ancestors from two species that hail from two completely separate parts of South America.

At some point during my decades of watching and researching hawks in the Marin Headlands, I began to notice insects. At first it was butterflies: migrating monarchs, local pipe-vine swallowtails, ...

Two moth enthusiasts chat about getting started with mothing.

Among life’s small, durable joys is the discovery of a bird’s nest: perhaps in the shape of a bowl, woven from grasses and stems with a skill that seems inexplicable. How could a creature with such a ...

Around State Route 37, which runs along the north side of San Pablo Bay, the sea could rise 7 feet by 2100 because of climate change. Amir Aziz / Bay Nature As the Trump administration kills the legal ...

The USFWS proposed monarch butterflies for a federal listing in 2024. The butterflies weather the winter months at Bay Area refuges like Natural Bridges State Beach, pictured. Brian Baer / California ...

Orange pore fungus (Favolaschia claudopus) Alan Rockefeller via iNaturalist, CC BY-SA 4.0 On my very first guided mushroom hike at Joaquin Miller Park, 30 long years ago, I was gobsmacked at the idea ...