Blue Orchard Bee

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,...

Manus Green Tree Snail

Invertebrates > Gastropods

The Manus Green Tree Snail (Papustyla pulcherrima), also known as the Emerald Green Snail, is renowned across the globe as one of the most breathtakingly beautiful land snails in existence. Famous for its brilliant, vivid apple-green shell—a coloration virtually...

Partula Snail

Invertebrates > Gastropods

The Partula Snail (Partula nodosa), also known as the Moorean Tree Snail, is an internationally celebrated icon of evolutionary biology and captive conservation. Often referred to as the ‘Darwin’s Finches of the snail world’, the Partula tree snails...

Giant Palouse Earthworm

Invertebrates > Annelids

The Giant Palouse Earthworm (Driloleirus americanus), meaning ‘lily-like earthworm’, is one of North America’s most elusive, mythical, and deeply subterranean annelids. Native to the fertile rolling hills of the Palouse region in Washington and...

Black Abalone

Invertebrates > Gastropods

The Black Abalone (Haliotis cracherodii) is a large, iconic marine snail native to the rugged rocky coastlines of California and Baja California. Historically one of the most abundant intertidal mollusks on the Pacific coast, often found stacked several layers deep on...