Earth Day Flower Survey with rangers and volunteers in the Rancho de Guadalupe Area.
Weird little elevated tube things, ≤ 2 inches tall. Looks like a small version of the burrows of Australian burrowing crayfish. Crazy ants? Tiny crazy bees?
Earth Day Flower Survey with rangers and volunteers in the Rancho de Guadalupe Area.
Earth Day Flower Survey with rangers and volunteers in the Rancho de Guadalupe Area.
In native oaks.
Earth Day Flower Survey with rangers and volunteers in the Rancho de Guadalupe Area.
Uncooperative butterfly underside.
http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?search=Vanessa+virginiensis&guide=1
Earth Day Flower Survey with rangers and volunteers in the Rancho de Guadalupe Area.
Puffing out brown spores.
Earth Day Flower Survey with rangers and volunteers in the Rancho de Guadalupe Area.
I'm assuming these are different sexes/color variants of the same species. They seem to have brushes instead of faces.
On Baby Blue Eyes (Nemophila).
Edit: Per dhobern's link the orange-faced one is female, and the black-faced one is male.
Earth Day Flower Survey with rangers and volunteers in the Rancho de Guadalupe Area.
Near oaks.
Earth Day Flower Survey with rangers and volunteers in the Rancho de Guadalupe Area.
Under oaks in a meadow.
Earth Day Flower Survey with rangers and volunteers in the Rancho de Guadalupe Area.
Impostor Blue Dicks.
Earth Day Flower Survey with rangers and volunteers in the Rancho de Guadalupe Area.
Earth Day Flower Survey with rangers and volunteers in the Rancho de Guadalupe Area.
Earth Day Flower Survey with rangers and volunteers in the Rancho de Guadalupe Area.
Earth Day Flower Survey with rangers and volunteers in the Rancho de Guadalupe Area.
Thin red stems.
Earth Day Flower Survey with rangers and volunteers in the Rancho de Guadalupe Area.
Basal and kind of ferny/linear foliage.
Earth Day Flower Survey with rangers and volunteers in the Rancho de Guadalupe Area.
Earth Day Flower Survey with rangers and volunteers in the Rancho de Guadalupe Area.
Little fuzzies.
Earth Day Flower Survey with rangers and volunteers in the Rancho de Guadalupe Area.
Huge eyes on a tiny critter. It's like a living Japanese cartoon pet.
Earth Day Flower Survey with rangers and volunteers in the Rancho de Guadalupe Area.
Earth Day Flower Survey with rangers and volunteers in the Rancho de Guadalupe Area.
With Blue Dicks.
Earth Day Flower Survey with rangers and volunteers in the Rancho de Guadalupe Area.
Part of the low-growing floral carpet on a former vehicle track.
Earth Day Flower Survey with rangers and volunteers in the Rancho de Guadalupe Area.
Bonus insect and orange aphids/springtails. No photo of leaves.
Earth Day Flower Survey with rangers and volunteers in the Rancho de Guadalupe Area.
Shorties.
Earth Day Flower Survey with rangers and volunteers in the Rancho de Guadalupe Area.
My only shot of this one.
Earth Day Flower Survey with rangers and volunteers in the Rancho de Guadalupe Area.
Some short, some taller.
Earth Day Flower Survey with rangers and volunteers in the Rancho de Guadalupe Area.
With stink bugs on it.
Earth Day Flower Survey with rangers and volunteers in the Rancho de Guadalupe Area.
