Beside the manicured lawn at Cragmont Elementary, a Berkeley Hills school overlooking the San Francisco Bay, is a small hillside patch of tangled trees and weeds—coyote brush, sage brush, wood rose, ...
A yellow-faced bumblebee (Bombus vosnesenskii), one widespread native bee, comes to land on a flower. (Photo courtesy of Nathalie Bonnet) One hot day last year, Sung Lee, an East Bay beekeeper who ...