How to Recognize Spiders By their Webs - Bay Nature Magazine
WEBSep 29, 2015 · Illustration by Rachel Diaz-Bastin. Orb webs are the classic, wheel-shaped webs that have inspired everyone from engineers to poets to, well, designers of computer networks. They are primarily associated with their namesake, the family Araneidae, commonly known as the orb-weaver spiders, and have …
Essay | Circumambulating Mt. Tam in COVID Times - Bay Nature
WEBApr 8, 2021 · Taking up Snyder’s circumambulation mantle in the 1990s, English professor and photographer David Robertson led students on excursions of Mt. Tam in the spirit of Snyder, Ginsberg, and Whalen. One chilly March day in 1998, my boyfriend — now husband — and I joined him for the circuitous 14-mile …
Tarantulas Emerge to Wander the Landscape in the Autumn - Bay …
WEBOct 1, 2018 · After nearly two months, the eggs hatch and the spiderlings leave to dig their own burrows. Seven autumns later, the males among them set out to wander the hills like their fathers, their iridescent hair shining in the fading sunlight. Where to See Tarantulas. Aphonepelma iodius is one of the most widely distributed tarantulas in California.
Behind the Name in the East Bay Regional Parks - Bay Nature
WEBSep 16, 2019 · The neighboring grove of redwoods here was officially dedicated in 2002 in honor of Aurelia Henry Reinhardt, a prominent educator, peace activist, and founding board member of the EBRPD. “The entire [East Bay] redwood forest was originally named for Aurelia Reinhardt,” says EBRPD board member Dee Rosario. “In …
Bay Nature: The Bizarre World of the Banana Slug
WEBSep 30, 2018 · Branson reportedly clocked a banana slug covering 6.5 feet in two hours, a speed of 0.000275 meters per second. Slugcycle. Banana slugs lay a few dozen eggs at a time in moist cracks, crevices, or holes. After one or two months the eggs hatch and the inch-long baby slugs emerge to look for food. This is a …
The Enduring Mystery of Oak Tree "Mast" Years - Bay Nature
WEBJul 5, 2022 · Figure 1. The mean acorn crop of valley oak at Hastings Reservation (mean number of acorns counted per 30 second visual survey), 1980-2021; dashed lines divide years into those where the crop was <25% and >75% of the maximum acorn crop. Divided like this, only 3 of 42 years were “mast” years, while 16 were “medium” and 23 were “poor ...
ENature.com Website Launch
WEBApr 1, 2002 · Share This: If you haven’t checked out eNature.com, now’s the time. The website has been acquired by the National Wildlife Federation and offers a tremendous resource and tools for exploring Bay Area nature. Local-Guides on the site provide you with a zip-code-based photographic primer on the wildlife common in any area, including birds ...
The Living Drill Bits That Grind Holes in Beach Rocks
WEBOct 10, 2022 · The siphons suck oxygen- rich water into the clam’s body, where it sloshes over its gills and into the stomach. There, the tastiest morsels of plankton filter in and the siphons spit out the extra water. Burrowing through even the softest rocks takes time. The clams toil away, deepening and expanding the hole by roughly a millimeter each month.
How Do You Tell California Squirrels Apart? - Bay Nature
WEBMay 28, 2019 · A good way to tell western gray from the others is to look at the color of the fur on the face. Western grays are predominantly cool gray and white and don’t have brown on their faces, in contrast to the two introduced species who have a lot of orangey-brown all over their faces. The black squirrels that are common in some areas are simply a ...
Are Baby Rattlesnakes the Most Dangerous Biters? - Bay Nature
WEBMay 1, 2018 · Is it true that the bite of a baby rattlesnake is more dangerous than the bite of adult rattlesnake? With warm spring temperatures finally settling in throughout the Bay Area, snakes of all kinds are active, including the only local species that poses any significant health risk to humans, the western rattlesnake (Crotalus oreganus).Having spent the winter denned-up in their hibernacula, these ...