Invertebrates > Hymenoptera
The Blue Orchard Bee (Osmia lignaria), celebrated across North America as the Orchard Mason Bee, is a gentle, metallic-blue solitary bee renowned as the premier agricultural pollinator of early spring fruit trees. Incomparably more efficient at pollinating apples,...
Invertebrates > Hymenoptera
The Yellow-faced Bumblebee (Bombus vosnesenskii) is the most abundant and ecologically vital native bumblebee along the Pacific Coast of North America. Famous for its striking color pattern—combining a plush velvety jet-black body with a bright lemon-yellow face and a...
Invertebrates > Stick Insects
The Blue Spiny Stick Insect (Achrioptera manga) is universally hailed as one of the most breathtakingly gorgeous insects on Earth. While almost all stick insects rely on drab brown or green camouflage to hide as twigs, adult males of this colossal Malagasy species...
Invertebrates > Orthoptera
The Cook Strait Giant Weta (Deinacrida rugosa), known in Maori as Weta Punga, is an iconic, dinosaur-like giant insect native to the island ecosystems of New Zealand. Evolving in an ancient archipelago devoid of native land mammals, this monumental, flightless...
