3-minute video and a writeup by KQED Science Digital Producer, Elliott Kennerson. Read more
In The News
There are insects on Mount Diablo, and this scientist is out to find them
This article by Joan Hamilton is part of a monthly series of photos and articles on the transformation of Mount Diablo following the 2013 Morgan Fire, funded by special donations from Bay Nature readers. Read more
CalBug – California Terrestrial Arthropods Database
This 3-minute video from California Academy of Sciences’s Science Today describes how scientists across the state of California need your help studying insects collected over the past 130 years. Read more
Researchers enlist public to sort more than 1 million bugs online
In 2013, Daily Cal staff writer, J. Hannah Lee, reported on CalBug’s exciting collaboration with Notes from Nature. Read more
Enormous museum collection of insects needs your help
Millions of plant and animal specimens reside in natural history museums around the world. These specimens and the field notes that go with them are an invaluable scientific resource, but it would take scientists generations to digitize them so they can be shared and studied. Read more