What’s really unusual about the the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve is that there is a piece of the park on each of the 15 Gulf Islands. Each year, a bioblitz is being held on each island to gather information and specimens, hopefully working toward
This week we’re looking at the strategies and counter-strategies that Monarch butterflies have developed in courtship and reproduction.
Game Of Thrones has a lot of magical and non-magical creatures – but do you know which ones actually existed and which ones were fake?
Chalk-front corporal dragonfly (Libellula julia) Photo credit: Sarah Yontez Insects. Bugs. Creepy crawlies. Interested in the aforementioned arthopods? So is Karen Needham, the Assistant Curator of the Spencer Entomological Collection. She and a small
Galiano Island | Photo Credit: Andrew Simon Bioblitz season is well underway and results are pouring in from Galiano Island, BC. Galiano is one of British Columbia’s Gulf Islands, and was originally inhabited by the Central Coast Salish people. The isl
There’s no monogamy here; to increase their chances of offspring, they will mate with as many females as they can. Hey, it’s not for all species.
The Ophrys Orchid has evolved to be quite devious. Or so a certain species of bee thinks so.
With over 20,000 specimens at risk, including more than 100 species new to science, the Co-Curators of the lichen collection at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum had to act quickly or lose their life’s work to the BC Wildfires.
Before I began researching the courtship behaviour of animals, I didn’t believe that following a female around was a viable way for a male to win her over, but it is and the American Bison is no exception.
Though their namesake, the Amazon warriors, did have males in their tribes, the Amazon Molly has figured out a way to be a unisexual species. It is a species made entirely of females, who only sire female offspring. If you guessed this was achieved thr
