Abandoned mine with Corynorhinus townsendii hosts, in mixed coniferous forest.
At UV over white sheet, roadside overlooking Artemisia Baccharis Salvia scrub.
SW exposed stone overhang at night, in Baccharis Salvia Malosma Ceanothus community above seasonal creek with Quercus.
??? Moth Lacewing ???
What is it?
1" +/- length. Clear Winged
striped / variegated body greenish body.
Thousands of individuals mating, flying, crawling in/around desert mountainside. No buzzing; just the sound of insects crawling/falling.
*No predators
Found nesting in a tree stump that was ripped out of the ground.
on Ficus microcarpa
3 mm
Imaging system photos except for photo 2 shot in ethanol (hence air bubbles under elytra in first photo). Several of these small brown beetles were found under a rock (en situ photos at end of photo series). Checked beneath lots of rocks this trip and didn't see these again.
2mm or so. Parry pinyon, canyon live oak, pringle's manzanita duff.
From cultivated Ficus (microcarpa?) synconium. Associated with conspecific females and host Blastophaga.
Female from same fig:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/159028375
I think this is one of the Pteromalidae that parasitize agaonids, possibly Idarnes.
Collected from some sort of mouse (Peromyscus?).
Locality and time are that of the rodent host.
Observation for the host: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/198379828
Would appreciate any help to further identify the host.
Holotype (CASIZ 182590), 33 mm long as shown here, on which Terry Gosliner based his 2010 description of this species (as Flabellina goddardi). I found it on a calm and bright overcast morning crawling in the open in a low intertidal pool at Tar Pits Reef. The 2nd image shows the egg mass, 14 mm in diameter, laid by this individual on 10 May 2008. The uncleaved zygotes averaged 65 microns in diameter, were packed one per capsule, and took 7 days at an average of 16 degrees C to develop into hatching planktotrophic veligers. The 3rd image shows, in right ventro-lateral view, one of the veligers just prior to hatching and with a shell 105 microns long.
Unlike most specimens of this species observed subtidally, individuals found intertidally vary in possession of white lines on the body and cephalic tentacles from completely absent (as in this specimen) to incomplete, to complete. With those white lines, subtidal specimens have occasionally been mistaken for Coryphella trilineata.
Found on Delairea odorata, successfully reared! The beautiful pupa and adult photos are by @graham_montgomery. Collected with @ethanxk and @onewithbirds.
Found on Arixenia esau (pic2)
Left to right: Brassica fruticulosa, B. nigra, B. rapa, Hirschfeldia incana, Raphanus sativus.
Approx. 9mm long.
Farnsworth Bank
At least 500 plants; upper portions of at least 3 slopes of Palmdale Hills
Family of five Orcas hunting common dolphins. Identified by the California Killer Whale Project as the CA140Bs and CA23A2.
On a dead acorn woodpecker that was hit by a car.
In coarse granite soil in area without noticeable slope, Yucca desert with eroded granite outcrops.
@owen_seeman I think you'll like these! The last photo includes the carabid that they were 'riding'
Using stereomicroscopy, multiple individuals were found on detached Trichoglossus moluccanus feather, on the internal surface, at the intersections of the rachis and barbs. All appeared to be dead. Using a needle, one individual was removed for bright-field light microscopy.
Image 1: bright-field light microscopy; medium-power; mite; ventral perspective
Image 2: macroscopy; external surface (left) and internal surface (right) of feather; position of mite indicated by red circle
Observación realizada por Jony Lopez en el predio La Esmeralda propiedad de Pedro Luis López. Programa de biodiversidad de Jhony López. Identificada inicialmente por Ana Isabel López Rojas e identificación de especie confirmada por Renata Leite Pitman.
Observation made by Jony Lopez at La Esmeralda property owned by Pedro Luis Lopez. Biodiversity program by Jhony Lopez. Initially identified by Ana Isabel López Rojas and species identification confirmed by Renata Leite Pitman.