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Slender Club (Macrotyphula juncea)Observer
touchearthDescription
On a mud-encrusted leaf I lifted off the ground.
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Pink Bow-Tie Gall Wasp (Feron izabellae)Observer
touchearthDescription
Pink bow tie gall wasp.
On leather oak, Quercus durata. No sign of the gall on opposite side of leaf. About 3/8” diameter.
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Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis)Observer
touchearthDescription
Prominent white tail feathers
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Acorn Woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus)Observer
touchearthDescription
Red head. Id based on call that sounds like a saw working back and forth. Three individuals, on telephone poles and Quercus agrifolia.
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Bees and Apoid Wasps (Superfamily Apoidea)Observer
touchearthDescription
On Rosa
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California Wild Rose (Rosa californica)Observer
touchearthDescription
Large thorns on upper stems are flat and curved. Lots of small, fine thorns on lower stems. This plant was about 2’ high, in sun at edge of Old Stage Road.
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Ear-shaped Wild Buckwheat (Eriogonum nudum var. auriculatum)Observer
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Yellow Clustered Broomrape (Aphyllon franciscanum)Observer
touchearthDescription
About 15” from above-ground growth of Eriogonum nudum var. auriculatum
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Crab Spiders (Family Thomisidae)Observer
touchearthDescription
Bee apparently caught by a crab spider on Calochortus luteus
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Furrow Bees (Genus Halictus)Observer
touchearthDescription
Bee apparently caught by a crab spider on Calochortus luteus
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Yellow Mariposa Lily (Calochortus luteus)Observer
touchearthDescription
Bee apparently caught by a crab spider on Calochortus luteus
