Wings Magazine
Wings: Essays on Invertebrate Conservation, our membership magazine, is published twice each year. Every issue features spectacular full-color photography by leading photographers and articles by well-respected scientists and conservationists, such as E.O. Wilson, Thomas Eisner, May Berenbaum, Robert Michael Pyle, and Sue Hubbell.
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Contents of the current issue (spring 2010)
The articles in this issue take you from the sea floor to the tops of mountains, via forests and backyards.
- Sea Anemones: Flowers of the Sea, by Susan J. Tweit: Generally hidden from our view except at low tide, anemones lead surprisingly complex lives
- Butterfly Monitoring: On Being in the Right Place at the Right Time, by Arthur M. Shapiro: A wealth of information collected over nearly four decades of dedicated field research is beginning to reveal startling changes in the lives of California butterflies, including declines in some formerly common species.
- The Beautiful Katydids, by Piotr Naskrecki: Katydids may be best known for the singing we hear during summer evenings, but they are a diverse group of insects with widely differing diets and lifestyles. And not all of them sing.
- Appropriate Forest Management in the Face of a Bark Beetle Epidemic, by Scott Hoffman Black: Although dead and dying forests are turning the mountain landscapes of western North America brown, we need to carefully think through our practices for dealing with the effects of an epidemic bark beetle infestation.
- The Great Sunflower Project, by Gretchen LeBuhn: Across North America, ordinary people are tracking the visits that bees make to sunflowers growing in their yards and gardens, thereby adding to our scientific understanding of the health of pollinator populations.
- Xerces News: A report on bark beetles; pollinator conservation strategy for Yolo County; new resources on our website; an expanded guide to freshwater mussels; protecting bumble bees and a stonefly; and the 2010 DeWind Award winners.