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Saddle Cloth Fungus Beetle (Atomaria ephippiata)Observer
cbackDescription
Longueur 1 mm
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Algodones White Wax Jewel Beetle (Prasinalia imperialis)Observer
silversea_starsong
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Genus OphiocordycepsObserver
kookamongusDescription
Just amazing! Parasitizing Ten-lined June beetle (Polyphylla decemlineata) on an open slope of sand. Insitu, already exposed when found
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Lancelets (Subphylum Cephalochordata)Observer
jsaltDescription
Collected in a biological dredge (using scientific permits)
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California Fan Palm (Washingtonia filifera)Observer
cwbarrowsPlace
Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains Natl. Monument, Riverside, California, United States (Google, OSM)
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Genus StylopsObserver
thilinahettiarachchiDescription
This Andrena dunningi has two Strepsipteran flies
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Serratia marcescensObserver
maddiemcewenDescription
Best guess, found growing on someone's cream cheese.
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Family ClavulariidaeObserver
jeffgoddardDescription
Given the recent systematic revisions of the Octocorallia by McFadden et al. (2022, https://ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bssb/article/view/8735/7735), this stoloniferan, so common intertidally in Southern California, is unlikely to remain in the Clavulariidae, so the name is just a placeholder until Cathy's phylogenetic revisions involving the "SoCal stoloniferan" are further along.
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Long-tailed Dance Fly (Rhamphomyia longicauda)Observer
cbackDescription
The Wikipedia page for this species is worth reading, because of the peculiar sex role reversal during courtship, and overall well-documented complex behaviour.
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Roller's Aeolid (Cuthona rolleri)Observer
passiflora4Description
Found by Karen! Video showcasing big beating heart and what looks like a defensive cerata flare: https://flic.kr/p/2pB8Jt3. ~ 4-5mm.
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Pear Marginella (Granulina margaritula)Observer
hakaiinstituteDescription
Photo license and credit belong to the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH), the Hakai Institute, and MarineGEO | http://specifyportal.flmnh.ufl.edu/iz/ | Field Number: BHAK-1854 | This observation is a part of the collaborative work between FLMNH, the Smithsonian Institution's Marine Global Earth Observatory (MarineGEO) and Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and the Hakai Institute
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Californian Lancelet (Branchiostoma californiense)Observer
claudia_jeannetteDescription
Se encontraron varios organismos, forman parte de un proyecto sobre la fauna asociada a la fanerógama marina Halodule wrightii en Balandra.
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Hancock's Nudibranch (Hancockia californica)Observer
jeffgoddardDescription
About 14 mm long and a little more purple than is usual for this species.
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Cymatioa cookaeObserver
anudibranchmomDescription
Check out its weird way of moving in this video: https://flic.kr/p/PqGe2P
Found by @jeffgoddard. Same individual as: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/18597683
I was honored to be out tidepooling with Jeff that day :-) The audio captures our puzzlement and the fact that I saw another one earlier that day but was too busy hunting for nudibranchs to realize what I'd seen! :-O
His paper: zookeys.pensoft.net/article/95139/list/9/
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Andiperla willinkiObserver
migueltobarDescription
Fotos macro del dragón de Patagonia en su hábitat natural
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Trachusa larreaeObserver
beesipDescription
female first photo; male second photo
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Sea Palm (Postelsia palmiformis)Observer
sedgequeenDescription
Rocky Creek State Scenic Area, at the coast.
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Giant Scale Insects (Family Monophlebidae)Observer
froggy143Description
In a Lasius arizonicus colony.
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Arizona Citronella Ant (Lasius arizonicus)Observer
froggy143Description
With Margarodidae(?).
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Taiwan Giant Flying Squirrel (Petaurista grandis)Observer
bobohogDescription
夜行性動物，體色為濃栗色，在樹上打量我是誰，並發出聲音，有飛膜，台灣三種飛鼠之一。
https://youtu.be/_4exGEf7yEo
聲音為短促的嘶吼聲，但不是很清楚，背景聲音是黃嘴角鴞。
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Feather-winged Beetles (Family Ptiliidae)Observer
myrmecophilDescription
myrmecophile beetles on the larva
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tobiashaysDescription
Abandoned mine with Corynorhinus townsendii hosts, in mixed coniferous forest.
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Family CorioxenidaeObserver
tobiashaysDescription
At UV over white sheet, roadside overlooking Artemisia Baccharis Salvia scrub.
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tobiashaysDescription
SW exposed stone overhang at night, in Baccharis Salvia Malosma Ceanothus community above seasonal creek with Quercus.
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Cheeseweed Owlfly (Oliarces clara)Observer
dlm1965Description
??? Moth Lacewing ???
What is it?
1" +/- length. Clear Winged
striped / variegated body greenish body.
Thousands of individuals mating, flying, crawling in/around desert mountainside. No buzzing; just the sound of insects crawling/falling.
*No predators
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Desert Dampwood Termite (Paraneotermes simplicicornis)Observer
froggy143Description
Found nesting in a tree stump that was ripped out of the ground.
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Winged and Once-winged Insects (Subclass Pterygota)Observer
neontetraploidDescription
on Ficus microcarpa
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Genus BatuliodesObserver
ameedsDescription
3 mm
Imaging system photos except for photo 2 shot in ethanol (hence air bubbles under elytra in first photo). Several of these small brown beetles were found under a rock (en situ photos at end of photo series). Checked beneath lots of rocks this trip and didn't see these again.
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Genus SpalangiopeltaObserver
chloe_and_trevorDescription
2mm or so. Parry pinyon, canyon live oak, pringle's manzanita duff.
