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Bicolored Sallow (Sunira bicolorago)Observer
jkrauskaDescription
Hundreds of individuals were seeking dry locations in flooded lowlands during a few days of precipitation. Caterpillars were everywhere I looked above the puddles.
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White-lip Globe Snail (Mesodon thyroidus)Observer
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Many slow-moving individuals moving about on the forest floor on the afternoon after a heavy rain.
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American Bladdernut (Staphylea trifolia)Observer
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Blooming at the access boat ramp.
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Brown Thrasher (Toxostoma rufum)Observer
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Not the best photo quality. One adult bird foraging in the leaf litter of the honeysuckle thicket behind my apartment.
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Snakewort (Conocephalum salebrosum)Observer
jkrauskaDescription
Growing in a sandstone creek along Sandstone Canyon Trail in Don Robinson State Park, Jefferson County, MO.
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Southern Flying Squirrel (Glaucomys volans)Observer
jkrauskaDescription
One individual was spotted during our day-time prescribed burn of mature woodlands.
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Green Stink Bug (Chinavia hilaris)Observer
jkrauskaDescription
Hundreds of adults were observed climbing to higher places during our prescribed burns of mature woodlands. They seemed to be responding to the smoke rather than the heat of the fire because they were exhibiting this behavior out of range of the heat from the fire.
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Banded Ash Borer (Neoclytus caprea)Observer
jkrauskaDescription
One individual scurrying quite quickly in the full sun on the porch. We had performed a controlled burn the day before, and I wonder if this buprestid became active because of it.
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Funeral Bell (Galerina marginata)Observer
jkrauskaDescription
A cluster of fruiting mushrooms on a log in an ephemeral creek.
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Cut-leaved Grapefern (Sceptridium dissectum dissectum)Observer
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A single individual growing in the middle of an old, unused, wooded logging road 40 yards from a field.
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Evening Bat (Nycticeius humeralis)Observer
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I opened our barn door and this male bat feel to the ground. I picked him up to make sure he wasn't injured, and then put him back where he fell from. He was clearly in a state of torpor - moving incredibly slow, slowly breathing, no defensive behaviors.
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Hairy White Oldfield Aster (Symphyotrichum pilosum)Observer
jkrauskaDescription
Growing from a crack in the concrete.
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Late Boneset (Eupatorium serotinum)Observer
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Large population but sparse, following the creek
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Great Spangled Fritillary (Argynnis cybele)Observer
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One individual nectaring on thistle (Cirsium sp.)
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Milkweed Tussock Moth (Euchaetes egle)Observer
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A group of middle-instar caterpillars feeding on an unknown host plant.
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Douglas-fir Tussock Moth (Orgyia pseudotsugata)Observer
jkrauskaDescription
One individual seen walking in the morning near Lake Almanor.
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Common St. John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum)Observer
jkrauskaDescription
Populations around thr campsites of Spanish Creek Campground (Plumas National Forest).
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Heart-leaf Milkweed (Asclepias cordifolia)Observer
jkrauskaDescription
Single individual plant developing seed pods alongside Quarry Road (dirt/gravel)
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Desert Willow (Chilopsis linearis)Observer
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Outside of Holiday Inn in Reno
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Smooth Ironweed (Vernonia fasciculata)Observer
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Few individuals along the Black River at Black River Outfitters campground.
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Mullein Foxglove (Dasistoma macrophylla)Observer
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Growing along the Black River at Black River Outfitters campground.
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Boletes (Family Boletaceae)Observer
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One individual growing from a washed out creek bed in a wooded area with a dense canopy.