Take a summer ramble through a garden of California natives
Patricia Carpenter welcomes visitors to her garden Sunday, Aug. 4
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This Halloween, admire spiders as garden friends
This golden orbweaver spider likes to hang out in rose bushes. It’s harmless to humans. (Photo: Debbie Arrington) These critters may look scary, but most won’t harm people What’s the scariest critter in the...
New spider name salutes Native American ties
This is a female Cryptocteniza kawtak. (Photo courtesy Jason Bond, UC Davis) A once-in-a-lifetime discovery now has a name: Cryptocteniza kawtak . That blend of Latin and Mutsun was the winning entry in a...