BIODIVERSITY
INSECTS
We are only at the very beginning of documenting and identifying the great variety of insects on our campus--please keep a close look out, and help us add to our list!
Note that we have a separate page for Butterflies & Moths.
Asian Lady Beetle
Australian Tortoise Beetle
Bordered Plant Bug
Bush Katydid
Flame Skimmer
Gray Bird Grasshopper
Gray Walkingstick
Honeybee
Long-horned Beetle
Snowy Tree Cricket
Torpedo Bug
Variable Field Cricket
Wing-tapping Cicada
Long-legged Fly
White Butterfly Parasite
Cotton Seed Bug
Jerusalem Cricket
California Elderberry Borer
Cotton Seed Bug
Paul Willis
Extra Innings
From a shaky scaffold rising out of the poison oak,
a pair of men are tearing off
the back of our redwood baseball stands.
Who would have guessed it?
Between the boards, row on row of honeycombs,
packed in like a visiting team in brown and saffron uniforms.
All these years a sweetness
building at our backs, a hidden infield
of play, the score kept in numberless columns
by so many runs home. Here was a game
never called on account of darkness,
only halted by too much light.
—from Visiting Home (Pecan Grove Press, 2008)