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California Wild Rose (Rosa californica)

Observer

jk11496

Date

October 30, 2016 05:24 PM EDT

Description

This is a rose bush that is a meter high and two meters long. The bush is rooted by many dark green stems that crawl upwards and branch out leading to leaves. There are thorns all along the stems and the leaves have small spikes on the edges of them. The leaves are rounded and lead into a point with a main vein and veins coming off of the one vein. The leaves are about 1 cm wide and 3 cm long. The flower is bright pink and has a diameter of about 4 cm. The petals of the follower are delicate and a little translucent and they lay on top of each other and grow out from the center of the flower. The petals
are rounded and get lighter towards the center of the flower. There is pollen in the center of the flower that is yellowish orange along with yellow-orange stamen.

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Quail Grass (Celosia argentea)

Observer

jk11496

Date

October 30, 2016 05:14 PM EDT

Description

This is a flower-like bush. The bush is about 1/3 m long and wide and 1/2 m tall. The flowers on the bush are feather like and large with no petals. The flowers are bright pinkish red throughout and they grow vertically along with the leaves beside them. In these pictures a bee is pollinating the flowers. The flowers start with a lot of feathery sections towards the bottom and as it gets taller the amount feathery parts decrease into a fine point. There is one main stem on this bush and that stem splits into many smooth reddish green stems that are strong from supporting the large leaves and flowers. The leaves are about 25 cm tall and 10 cm wide and they are bright green with some reddish parts on the sides. The leaves create a point from a rounded base and grow vertically surrounding the flowers.

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Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)

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jk11496

Date

October 30, 2016 04:54 PM EDT

Description

This squirrel is about 30 cm long and the tail is another 30 cm. The squirrel's body is round and furry with a white stomach and gray fur. The squirrel has a snout and two eyes on either side of its pointed face. The face is tanish brown. The squirrel has two ears that are cupped and come from the top of its head. It has four legs, two towards the head and two towards the tail. The legs are shorter than the body. About 5 cm whereas the body is about 10 cm round. The squirrels tail is furry, curved, and varying shades of gray. The body is elongated.

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Heavenly Bamboo (Nandina domestica)

Observer

jk11496

Date

October 30, 2016 04:41 PM EDT

Description

This is a berry bush about a meter and a half tall and a meter wide. The bush is made of many separate grayish brown trunks in the ground grouped together. The trunks grow out and up of the ground and fork off eventually turning green or reddish green and becoming thinner and more smooth rather than the rough bark. The leaves of the bush are found in sets of three and they are mostly about 5 cm long and 2 cm wide and are pointed. The leaves have veins in them stemming from one central vein. Most of the leaves are bright green but some are turning orangish or bright red. The berries have are about .25 cm diameter and they are found in clumps stemming from one stem and the branches from the stem. The berries are bright red or orangish green and they have dark colored dots on the ends of them where the stem connects.

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Cellar Spiders (Family Pholcidae)

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jk11496

Date

October 30, 2016 04:07 PM EDT

Description

Body is 1 cm by .25 with legs that extend at most 3 cm and at least 1 cm. Eight legs, two that extend from one end of the spider that are 3 cm and four from the same end that are shorter- 1 cm. There are two more legs that extend from the same area of the body as the other legs but extend in the opposite direction. The legs are light grayish white and they bend at 2/3 of the way from the body. There are some darker markings on the legs at the places where they bend. There are two portions of the spider's body- the head and the torso. The spiders head is smaller than the torso and two even smaller pinchers/stingers extend from the head. The head is circular and light grayish white with two main black markings, a black circular marking in the center and a crescent moon shape marking with a line coming from it. The torso is the black color with grayish white markings. There are three small ovals on both sides of the torso. The torso is an oval.

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Small-leaved Plantain Lily (Hosta sieboldii)

Observer

jk11496

Date

October 30, 2016 03:28 PM EDT

Description

This is a plant that starts out with many leaves arranged in a circle. The amount of leaves decreases towards the middle and the plant makes a dome shape with the middle leaves more vertical than the outer leaves. The whole plant is about 1/3 meter in diameter and the leaves are 12 cm by 6 cm. The whole plant is about 25 cm tall. The leaves make a sloping triangular shape at the tips and are close together. The inside of the leaves has curved ridges going from the outside to the center and the leaves are mostly light, limey green with some outer parts that are dark green.

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Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)

Observer

jk11496

Date

October 29, 2016 04:42 PM EDT

Description

The wasps were 1.5 cm long and .5 cm wide. The wasps had bodies with three portions. The top portion/ head had two large black eyes and two thin black appendages (most likely sensor). The top portion is the smallest part of the wasp and is yellow and furry with black for the triangular shaped "mouth" at the bottom front of the head. The second portion is a little bigger than the first portion and is black covered in yellow fur. Two translucent wings that have light brown outlines come from the middle of the middle section of the wasp and the extend from the body at about a 45 degree angle. There are also four legs in total, two on each side that are connected at an angle on each side. The legs are segmented and brownish black. The final portion of the wasp is the largest and ocular. It starts with an orangish section, then a black line, than a yellowish section, then a black line. There is no fur on the last potion of the wasp.

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Ascomycete Fungi (Phylum Ascomycota)

Observer

jk11496

Date

October 28, 2016 11:44 AM EDT

Description

Size of lichen ranges from 1 cm by 1 cm to 8 cm by 3 cm. The lichen grows horizontally rather than vertically. And is varying shades of light aqua green, the darker colors lay on top of the lighter colors. The lichen has grown over a tree trunk starting with a lot of lichen towards the bottom of the trunk growing upwards and thinning out about a meter up the trunk but continuing up the whole trunk. Towards the bottom of the trunk the lichen forms petal-like shapes and attaches to the textured bark of the tree, as it grows upward the lichen flattens out as the bark of the tree flattens out. The lichen is always shaped with rounded edges in blob shaped, rather than squares or rectangles.

Photos / Sounds

Observer

jk11496

Date

October 26, 2016 12:49 PM EDT

Description

Flowers are 3 centimeters wide in all directions with radial symmetry. There were five petals on all of the flowers. Petals were darker towards the middle of the flower and got lighter towards the outside of the flower. Multiple stamen in the center of the flower, a lighter orange than the rest of the flower. The stamen are delicate petals in groups of three facing upward from the center of the flower. The plant comes from one main red stem with tan spots. The stem gets thinner and branches out as it grows up. At the end of the stem it becomes green, and small, long, green leaves extend from the ends. The flowers can be found at then top of the stems.

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Common Eastern Bumble Bee (Bombus impatiens)

Observer

jk11496

Date

October 26, 2016 12:42 PM EDT

Description

One centimeter wide, 2 centimeters long. 1/3 of body is the head portion of body. Two translucent wings coming from right under the head portion of the body at 45 degree angles. Wings have some opaque white lines. Portion of body with wings is furry, yellow, with some black parts. "Fur" is short. The rest of the body is black with three tan stripes and is narrower than the furry portion of the bees body. There are two thin black legs extending from the middle of the body.

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