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Jun 25, 2011

Description

A metallic, indigo blue pentatomid.

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Date

Jun 25, 2011

Description

This bright green, fruticose lichen was common on many trees.

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Date

Jun 25, 2011

Description

A rather large, solitary ant.

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biosam

Date

Jun 25, 2011

Description

Some kind of iris or iris relative?

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Sugar Pine Pinus lambertiana

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biosam

Date

Jun 25, 2011

Description

I'm guessing Sugar Pine because of the very large cone.

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biosam

Date

Jun 25, 2011

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biosam

Date

Jun 25, 2011

Description

A large gray slug. I think I read somewhere that the textured "thumbprint" mantle is a hallmark of the Arionidae.

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biosam

Date

Jun 25, 2011

Description

Ranchman's tiger moth (Platyprepia virginalis).
Larva, with long white plume. Dead.

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Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota

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biosam

Date

Jun 25, 2011

Description

Youngsters in nests under a steel bridge.

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White-faced Ibis Plegadis chihi

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Jun 25, 2011

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Jun 25, 2011

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Yellow-headed Blackbird Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus

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biosam

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Jun 25, 2011

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Sandhill Crane Grus canadensis

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biosam

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Jun 25, 2011

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Jun 25, 2011

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Date

Jun 25, 2011

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Dead

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Jun 25, 2011
Birds

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Class Aves

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biosam

Date

Jun 25, 2011

Description

A greenish, incandescent flight feather.

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biosam

Date

Jun 25, 2011

Description

Dipteran exuvia (possibly midges) attached to a road sign.

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biosam

Date

Jun 25, 2011

Description

Flattened beetle, found under a log. A bark dwelling beetle of the family Trogossitidae,

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biosam

Date

Jun 25, 2011

Description

Millipedes under a log. We first thought they were juveniles, but upon closer inspection they were guarding eggs. According to Brusca & Brusca, parental care in millipedes is widespread only among the Polydesmida

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biosam

Date

Jun 25, 2011

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Paper Wasps Family Vespidae

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biosam

Date

Jun 25, 2011

Description

a pear-shaped, fallen nest.

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What

Western Yellow-bellied Racer Coluber constrictor ssp. mormon

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biosam

Date

Jun 25, 2011

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Southern Alligator Lizard Elgaria multicarinata

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Date

Jun 25, 2011

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Date

Jun 25, 2011

Description

dragonfly nymph. Since this nymph has a scoop-shaped lip, I'm calling it a Libellulid.

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American Bullfrog Lithobates catesbeianus

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biosam

Date

Jun 25, 2011

Description

Juvenile Bullfrog and tadpole. The pond was full of tadpoles.

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Evening Grosbeak Coccothraustes vespertinus

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biosam

Date

Jun 25, 2011
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