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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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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Pollinator Meadow in the Nature Gardens Spring

Our Pollinator Meadow
Springs into Bloom

Take a Virtual Tour of Our Nature Gardens
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