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Articles by Robin Agarwal
Lake Merritt Nudibranchs, Algal Bloom Opportunists-Bay Nature
If you lay an old towel right down in the gull poop on Lake Merritt’s dock, sweep away the food wrappers and other detritus, hang your head over the side of the dock, and peer into the murk, a wondrous underwater forest awaits you. This forest is thick with slippery green sea lettuce, and pocked with “trees” that are not plants at all, but colonies of tiny animals that, in their youth, stuck themselves to the sides of the dock and claimed it as their home.
Life Beneath the Bay Surface
See it for yourself: Join Bay Nature at Jack London Square on July 1 to explore life living on the docks. Learn more and register for this free event here. About the Author Robin Agarwal was a bug-and-tidepool kid who went astray and graduated with a liberal arts degree. In the last decade, she has returned to her childhood passions, photographing and writing about nudibranchs and other natural marvels.
One Head, Two Heads, No Heads, All Fine for Planarians
There are creatures in the Bay Area that can have two heads. Or no heads. Or a head some of the time, until they rip themselves in half to reproduce, then grow a new one. On the surface, it would seem that this fascinating group of non-native creatures is begging for a sensationalist headline, possibly with a liberal dose of words like “invasion” and “alien” and fashionable social media fear-mongering. But is this really justified?
New Colony of Rare Bees Found By a Four-Year-Old
Four-year-old Annika Arnout, on a neighborhood outing with her caregiver Targe Lindsay and her pet garden snail Slimy this spring, found not one, but two, colonies of Plebeia emerina, a tiny, stingless bee native to Brazil, adding a new twist to an entomological detective story 70 years in the making.
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