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California Turret Spider (Atypoides riversi)Observer
ap2ilDescription
Found an old turret. I could see fine silk webbing lining the entrance.
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Tribe DolisteniniObserver
ap2ilDescription
Cute pink millipedes with babies! The pale white babies looked like rice grains.
Found under a rotting piece of bay laurel wood
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Roundheads (Genus Stropharia)Observer
ap2ilDescription
Cute mushrooms growing out of an artists conk growing out of stump.
ID based on gestalt
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Honey Mushroom (Armillaria mellea)Observer
ap2ilDescription
cool rhizomorphs; when ripped apart and examined with a hand lens you can see the fluffy mycelia
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Western Black Widow (Latrodectus hesperus)Observer
ap2ilDescription
Found this attractive spider on the outside of my trashcan.
Pretty fat so probably going to be a female. Colorful markings suggests that it is immature
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Brush Rabbit (Sylvilagus bachmani)Observer
ap2ilDescription
Running around in the brush in the early morning
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Desert Cottontail (Sylvilagus audubonii)Observer
ap2ilDescription
Running around in the brush in the early morning
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Black-tailed Jackrabbit (Lepus californicus)Observer
ap2ilDescription
Running around in the brush in the early morning
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ap2ilDescription
Mushroom Hunting at Salt Point!
Super rainy day. But still found the tasty orange fungus. They smell a little like apricots.
Found growing under pine! Usually under a nice layer of decaying duff.
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Mason, Leafcutter, Carder, and Resin Bees (Family Megachilidae)Observer
ap2il
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Sweat Bees (Family Halictidae)Observer
ap2ilDescription
sleepy little green bee
hanging onto the flower
waiting for the sun to warm
its flight muscles
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Pacific Poison Oak (Toxicodendron diversilobum)Observer
ap2ilDescription
First time I've seen Poison Oak in bloom
