Galls from this year, last year, and the previous year. On Adenostoma fasciculatum
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https://www.gallformers.org/gall/2679
Rearing successful! See https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/134331224
Twice-struck Ladybeetles were emerging today. These pictures were taken over a seven hour period. We followed this one because, in an earlier post, we showed this individual as the newly formed pupa changed color.
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/6002595
3 females emerged from these galls on canyon live oak:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/169671185
Collected: 06-25-2023
Emerged: 07-01-2023
This female Bufflehead and her 5 ducklings were swimming on Lower Tamarack Lake.
Walking across Duckweed mat on Jikoji pond. @merav
Sharing a slug snack
A Pupa carried to nest box
3-mm raspberry-like leaf gall on shrub oak (not sure what species), perhaps a gall of Andricus kingi?
Shrike larder
Prints from a sooted track plate and accompanying scat
Bird on the right. The left bird is a White-crowned Sparrow: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/51429131
Galls on canyon live oak
Host: canyon live oak
Ant infected by fungus. Presumably some species of Cordyceps, although I am under the impression that the genus has been split up, and I'm clueless as to where this one belongs.
eggs, Mitchell Canyon, Mt Diablo State Park, Clayton, CA
Two kittens ~2 weeks old.
Den in clump of redwoods.
Gall with exit hole on huckleberry oak (Quercus vacciniifolia).