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Vernal Pool Tadpole Shrimp

Vernal Pool Tadpole Shrimp have a shield-like cover called a carapace.  They can be mottled olive-green, brown or gray.  Their abdomen sticks out behind the carapace and ends in two…

YELC Wrap-Up – A Season of Discovery and Leadership

…digester, followed by building solar bugs and solar ovens and designing wind turbines, with help from SMUD. They gained insight into water conservation through data collection and macroinvertebrate observation at…

Splash is Hiring Field Guides/Docents!

…as helping students identify aquatic invertebrates at the microscope station, demonstrating the watershed/stormwater quality model, and showing live animals in our Critterville room.  Essential qualifications include a background and interest in…

Protozoa

Protozoa are single-celled animals that come in many shapes and sizes.  The most common shapes are round, oval, bell-shaped and slipper-shaped.  Protozoa are clear.  They become the color of the…

Brian Lindsay

…for a young naturalist. After high school, he moved to UC Davis, where he studied his twin passions of zoology and art. At Davis he curated the museum of invertebrates,…

Join us for a Vernal Pool Critter Walk in March!

…the wet phase, when the pools are teeming with tiny aquatic invertebrates! Visitors will get to see fairy shrimp, water fleas, flatworms, copepods, predatory aquatic beetle larvae, aquatic snails, beautiful…

Killdeer

The Killdeer has a short neck and a chubby, brown body, with a white underside and a brown face.  Two black bands cross the neck and chest….

Clam Shrimp

A Clam Shrimp looks like a small clam. Two shells cover its body. Between the shells you can see two body sections below the head. The front section is the…