non-native brown widow spider
Widow Wars
Help document the impacts of the invasive brown widow spider across Southern California
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Tapeworm
Research and Collections
Preserve Our Parasites
Conserving unseen worlds of misunderstood organisms
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Blue Morpho
Out-of-State Butterflies
Get to know our state butterfly and visitors from the tropics in this year's Butterfly Pavilion
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Blue Morpho
#MindblownLA 
Mobs of Blue Morphos  
Discover why blue morphos blow Forest Urban's mind.
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Photo of mantis on leaf branch
Amazing Mantids and Untangling the Widow's Web
Two informative videos about some awesome arthopods
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Bug Fair Connected
Bug Fair Is On
Get a taste of Bug Fair 2020
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macro, zoom, wasps, native, L.A.
Bug Out With Us
Those shiny, spiky, and furry creatures zipping and buzzing all around us are glorious beings with interesting bios.
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A black phoebe bird perces on a Covid-19 Closure Notice sign.
Nature in L.A.
Nature Comes Home
The results are in! A record number of people participated in City Nature Challenge 2020, mostly exploring in or near their homes due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Opossum
Meet Our Museum Animals
What the Vertebrate Living Collections team has been up to during the museum's temporary closure, including telemedicine and museum walk-abouts.
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A hummingbird at rest on a branch next to orange flowers
Nature in L.A.
Celebrate Nature With Us!
Take the City Nature Challenge and meet the person who started it all!
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