Secrets of the Oak Woodlands: Plants and Animals Among California's Oaks Insects

Secrets of the Oak Woodlands: Plants and Animals Among California's Oaks InsectsScience Nature Environment Finalist, Next Generation Indie Book Awards The acorn woodpeckers who call Waka! Waka! throughout California's oak woodlands unite in marriages of up to ten birds and raise their young cooperatively. California ground squirrels roll in rattlesnake skins to hide their scent from hungry snakes. Manzanita's sensuous red skin peels away in time for summer solstice, allowing trunks and branches to produce extra sugars to fuel

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Detailed lists of recommended native plants for a variety of situations and appendices with information on places to see native plants and where to buy them are also provided

With more than 300 bird species and a wide variety of habitats

Color plates for identifying the world’s manzanitas

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and one is as ancient as dinosaurs--but each represents a unique cultural contribution to our global drinking traditions and our history

Blackwell expertly provides several ways to find them in bloom: by month

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interspersed with sections that explore bugs with kinky sex lives (“She’s Just Not That Into You”)

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