THIS Event during the Summer Belongs on Halloween! The Story of the Tarantula and the Tarantula Hawk Wasp All of the images were captured with my video camera. A tarantula hawk wasp feeding along the top of a milkweed plant. IMAGINE – You belong to the arthropod family; you are an eight-legged, furry tarantula and …
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Ever since I worked on my steelhead movie for NOAA, NMFS in Long Beach, I have been fascinated with the California creek ecosystem and steelhead trout. Steelhead, (Oncorhynchus mykiss) could tell a very interesting story about their life, if only they could talk. Adults deposit eggs and milt in gravel within creeks and rivers that …
Almost beyond description is how I characterize the sound. Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom that resonates down the hills like a jackhammer. It calls me to come and find its source but the hills are steep and the trees are so thick at the top, only the pounding of beak on wood is heard, …