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True Slime Moulds (Class Myxomycetes)Observer
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Slime mold - but which?
The patch with the dark brown spot is a few days older. The patch is where I rubbed off the outer crust.
When I started to learn taxonomy, i was taught of only two kingdoms: plants and animals.
The fungi i have not learned properly at all.
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Pine Family (Family Pinaceae)Observer
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Hermaphrodidic. (sp?) cones on this tree are hanging down instead of up.
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Pine Family (Family Pinaceae)Observer
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Noble fir? Silver tip?
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Cypress Family (Family Cupressaceae)Observer
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Big, beautiful tree!!!
Cedar????
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Butterflies and Moths (Order Lepidoptera)Observer
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Anout 1.5" long; some kind of "hibernation" phase of life-cycle.... but for what???
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True Bugs (Suborder Heteroptera)Observer
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Approximately 5 mm in diameter
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Polyphemus Moth (Antheraea polyphemus)Observer
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Biggest caterpillar 🐛 I've ever seen!! Must be almost 3" long! Was living in an oak tree 🌳
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Monochamus obtususObserver
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This amazing critter landed on my shoul
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Pine Weevils (Genus Pissodes)Observer
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I found this boring insect while splitting cedar firewood in Northern CA, USA.
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Hartweg's Wild Ginger (Asarum hartwegii)Observer
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For some reason, Begonia comes to mind on seeing this plant in n. Ca.
What is it really???
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Prickly Lettuce (Lactuca serriola)Observer
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This plant grows upright, rapidly like a weed (!) here in Dunsmuir, CA, USA. Break off a leaf or stream, and a white milky sap oozes out of the leaf and stem.
What plant is this???
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Yellow-spotted Millipede (Harpaphe haydeniana)Observer
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Centipede?
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Insects (Class Insecta)Observer
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Mosquito larvae??? Dragon fly larvae???
The worms 🐛 fully stretched, are about 3/4 of an inch long.
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Common Snakeflies (Genus Agulla)Observer
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This guy is about one inch long, with pretty lace wings
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Tribe HelopiniObserver
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Who is this 3/4 inch long black bug?
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Butterflies and Moths (Order Lepidoptera)Observer
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What is this green worm-like creature? It ate all of the leaves off of my baby oak tree!!!
I didn't see him/her at meal time, but yesterday i saw an identical critter hanging from a fine silk thread in a mature oak tree, so it is the culprit.
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Genus CallidiumObserver
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Who is dis??? A bug that lives in a cedar forest here in Dunsmuir, CA USA. I'm pretty sure that his kind burrow in the cambium layer of cedar trees (and probably other tree species too.). At some point in their life cycle, I'm pretty sure that they sprout wings and migrate around.
This guy was found in my cedar wood pile today, April 8, 2022.
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Dicots (Class Magnoliopsida)Observer
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Tree in the Dunsmuir Community Garden
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Angulate and Roundshouldered Orbweavers (Genus Araneus)Observer
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Shoveling snow I found this 1 inch spidey😁
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Dicots (Class Magnoliopsida)Observer
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Aftermath of the Bradley Fire 🔥, which started July 11, 2021
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Fried Chicken Mushroom (Lyophyllum decastes)Observer
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Found paired with a soft wood (pine or cedar) tree stump. Edible or poisonous???
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Shasta Alligator Lizard (Elgaria coerulea ssp. shastensis)Observer
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Sleeping Godzilla
