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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

Observer
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