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Giant Ragweed (Ambrosia trifida)Observer
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Small, green. Seeds? Not sure how to describe
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Crape-Myrtle (Lagerstroemia indica)Observer
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Long thin branches, mixed between a tree and a bush. Leaves are small and round, changing into a reddish orange color.
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Hispid Cotton Rat (Sigmodon hispidus)Observer
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Small, brownish, could be gray mice. With white bellies underneath an agave plant. Eating trash. Lots of them around.
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Wolf Spiders (Family Lycosidae)Observer
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Dark, sort of big. Probably ablution the size of my index finger in length.
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Scrubsnails (Genus Praticolella)Observer
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Found it near the creek, probably just the shell. Very small and not very hard of a shell
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Decollate Snail (Rumina decollata)Observer
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I only found the shell underneath a dead tree.
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Chinese Arborvitae (Platycladus orientalis)Observer
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Not sure if it was cultivated.
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Tropical Milkweed (Asclepias curassavica)Observer
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Found it growing near a very damp area, it was colorful and looked very out of place. Since it was surrounded by grasses and moss. And lot of mud.
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Hairy Hexagonia (Hexagonia hydnoides)Observer
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It was growing on a dead tree stump, it's dark brown and black, and very closely attached to the wood.
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Flat-backed Millipedes (Order Polydesmida)Observer
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Small centipede. Or so I think. Dug it up from the soil, it was dead but had many legs, a reddish back mixed with black.
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Palms, Bullanocks, and Allies (Order Arecales)Observer
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Found it near the creek. Quite surprised to see it there. Unsure if it's wild or not.
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Joint-toothed Mosses (Class Bryopsida)Observer
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Near the creek
Bright green. There seemed to be more the closer the rock was to the creek
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Fox Squirrel (Sciurus niger)Observer
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Best pictures I could get. It soon followed me afterwards, by the trees.
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Yaupon Holly (Ilex vomitoria)Observer
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Bush, with spherical red fruit.
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Giant Reed (Arundo donax)Observer
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Long, palm like plant near the creek. Fuzzy thing at the very top.
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Long-jawed Jumping Spiders (Genus Hentzia)Observer
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Blurry picture but it's spider/scorpion like it's very tiny and brown, with spots down its abdomen.
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Southern Dogface (Zerene cesonia)Observer
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Couldn't get a picture of its wings but it's all green with black spotted patterns.
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Moonseed Moth (Plusiodonta compressipalpis)Observer
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Butterfly, or moth? I'm not an expert but it's a small brown butterfly
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House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)Observer
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Not sure of the species but it's a small bird, small beak. I've always seen lots of them around Austin. Could only get this picture.
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Texas Mountain Laurel (Dermatophyllum secundiflorum)Observer
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Not sure what type of tree this is but seems to have some type of nuts
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Feral Pigeon (Columba livia var. domestica)Observer
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This was as close as I could get
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True Crickets (Family Gryllidae)Observer
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Found it at the highland campus and I've seen a bunch lately around Austin.
