Male Valley carpenter bees are known as teddy bear bees.

DEEP LOOK: Carpenter Bees Stab Flowers to Steal Their Nectar

With their short tongues, Valley carpenter bees can’t easily drink the nectar from tubular flowers. So they use powerful mandibles to slice into the blooms and steal it. It’s called nectar robbing, since the plants don’t get the benefit of being pollinated by the enormous bees.

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Doses of the monkeypox vaccine, produced by the Danish company Jynneos, are prepped at JRI Health in Framingham, Massachusetts, on July 18, 2022. (Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

'Time Is of the Essence': Pelosi Urges Feds to Step Up Monkeypox Response

Pelosi called the current supply of monkeypox vaccine provided by the federal government 'woefully inadequate to meet the current need' in places like San Francisco.

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New growth emerges on and around burned redwoods at Big Basin Redwoods State Park on May 26, 2022. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)

As Big Basin Finally Reopens, Indigenous Stewardship Key Among Plans for Park's Rebirth

Big Basin Redwoods State Park finally gets a limited reopening this week, nearly two years after a devastating wildfire. Appeals for renewed forms of Indigenous stewardship are part of its rebirth.

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Firefighters put out hot spots from the Washburn Fire in Yosemite National Park, California, July 11, 2022. - Hundreds of firefighters scrambled Monday to prevent a wildfire engulfing an area of rare giant sequoia trees in California's Yosemite National Park. The Washburn fire, in the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias, was first reported on July 7 and doubled in size over the weekend to 2,340 acres (946 hectares), according to a park report. Yosemite's fire management service said 545 firefighters were battling the blaze, including "proactively protecting" the grove -- the largest sequoia grove in Yosemite, with over 500 mature trees. (NIC COURY/AFP via Getty Images)

Decades of 'Good Fires' Save Yosemite's Iconic Grove of Ancient Sequoia Trees

Saving the centuries-old trees in Yosemite's famed Mariposa Grove took hard work from firefighters but also half a century of intentional fires.

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Sitting 26 miles outside the Golden Gate, the Farallon Islands are a home to one of the most biodiverse ecosystems on the planet. (Courtesy of Point Blue Conservation Science)

A History of San Francisco's Wild, Raw Farallon Islands

The rugged islands that sit 27 miles West of the Golden Gate Bridge are extremely inhospitable, but a host of people have lived on them over the centuries.

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Liam Glynn excels at piano. His mother, Megan Glynn, is hoping that Liam, who has cognitive disabilities, will be able to benefit from a new program that would allow him to earn a high school diploma. (Courtesy of Megan Glynn/EdSource)

'They All Deserve Options': California Opens Pathway for Students With Major Cognitive Disabilities to Earn High School Diploma

Potentially 80,000 students — 10% of the overall number of students enrolled in special education in California — would benefit from the new pathway.

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