It’s Groundhog Day, but whether or not a rodent in Pennsylvania sees his shadow means nothing to us here in Las Vegas.
On this south-facing slope in Morongo Valley there is a forest of very old Yucca schidigera, known as the Mojave yucca. These very large plants are ... wildfire in California and regenerate ...
The bee has disappeared as those plants have declined ... to protect the bee adequately. The Mojave poppy bee was first described by scientists in 1993. It once inhabited at least 34 known sites ...