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Honey Bees (Genus Apis)Observer
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Very small body, body mostly yellow with a black stripe in the middle section
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Eastern Cottonwood (Populus deltoides)Observer
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white and long branches, looks like a tall bush with flowers that have red berries medium size leafs
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Fluffgrass (Dasyochloa pulchella)Observer
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Has a somewhat feathery look to it, very small and very prominent in the area
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Squirrels (Family Sciuridae)Observer
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Big, robust squirrel, grey furb, small ears, stocky tail.
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Rock Pigeon (Columba livia)Observer
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blue, purple and grey pigeon
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Checkered White (Pontia protodice)Observer
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White med size moth/butterfly, black/blue dots on the back size
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Typical Herons and Egrets (Subfamily Ardeinae)Observer
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Very large white bird, with a slender body, long beack
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Typical American Harvester Ants (Genus Pogonomyrmex)Observer
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long red body ant, with dots on black dots on the back of its abdomen
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Common Side-blotched Lizard (Uta stansburiana)Observer
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Very long lizard, with a green body and 2 black and yellow lines along the whole body
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Gypsum Phacelia (Phacelia integrifolia var. integrifolia)Observer
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very vibrant purple color, small flower in big clumps of flowers. around 5 pistils per flower
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Calyptrate Flies (Zoosubsection Calyptratae)Observer
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very big size for a house fly, black body, white/transparent wings, marron face.
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Greater Earless Lizard (Cophosaurus texanus)Observer
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medium to big size (around 4 to 5 inches in length), green and white lizard, with green circles in its long thick tail
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Valley Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa sonorina)Observer
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Very big size body around 1 centimeter, body completely shiny black and darken wings, bee like body shape
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Creosote Bush (Larrea tridentata)Observer
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Very vibrant green color, very small leafs, very small yellow flower, rain fragrance
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Prickly Pears (Genus Opuntia)Observer
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Green opaque body color, red large size thorns
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Sotols (Genus Dasylirion)Observer
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Very big plant, similar in shape to a palmer, similar to a agave but with large but thin leafs, very long white stick like in the middle of the plant, very prominent in the area
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Flowering Plants (Subphylum Angiospermae)Observer
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White/blueish thin branches, completely leafless (most likely due to the winter season) tall Bush shape
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Desert Orangetip (Anthocharis cethura)Observer
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Med size body, yellow/reddish wings with black dots
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Texas Hedgehog Cactus (Echinocereus chloranthus ssp. chloranthus)Observer
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Ted and white color thorns, tiny body, very abundant in the area
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Giant Agave Bug (Acanthocephala thomasi)Observer
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Big size beattle, black under body, red/brown large wings, long antennas