There must have been near 30 Gentner's fritillaries in bloom and another >60 Scarlet fritillaries in this last than a half mile walk. Must have been SO many more of both.
ODOT wetland mitigation site east of Olene, on the Lost River.
Along the ditch running parallel to the runway. Flushed the first 2 about 50 ft apart, and the 3rd about 500 ft further along. All flew past me to the west behind me, so these are distinct individuals. Also heard on my walk back.
Found yesterday by Jon Cox. Located under the old floating dock to the east of the dam. Photos.
Found this specimen when working with the Washington State Department of Agriculture looking for the hornets. Hornet in the possession of WSDA.
BIP Excursion 2023 to Subarctic Finland: Marburg - Turku - la Réunion
in tundra
with Paul Wilson, Bryo excursion. Just downslope of campground in riparian area full of mosses. Schistidium was on vertical wall under shrub in shaded area next to creek water.
Coleman 313
Pear Lake
subalpine woods surrounding Pear Lake
at outlet streambank on granite some submerged
Growing by a light in Shasta caverns
Two layers of cells in the cross-section of a leaf. Growing on rock.
Coleman 1487a
small trail above the dorms at the top
amongst Quercus wislizeni, Aesculus californica and Phacelia shaded rock outcrop, on marble
Orthotrichum hallii
Sullivant & Lesquereux in Sullivant
det. by N. Mendez 9-Jan-2013
"On Quercus kelloggii trunk bark. Boulder-strewn mixed oak wodland adjacent to Pseudotsuga menziesii forest and open grassland. See McCune & Geiser (2009) for a brief informative discussion of this group of lichens. "
On Quercus garryana, underside of 4 inch limb. Photo of specimen in wet conditions. Has a blue-grey look when dry.
much shamller than D. ingens and in steep, sloping brushy habitat
Prey drag? Identical drag-like marks with every set of tracks in this trail
Substrate: rock.
Leaves strongly papillose, but papillae not antler-like. Costa distinctly reddish, extending to conspicuous hyaline awns. Stems ~ 2cm.
Reddish stem, growing on a stream bank.
Growing on the bark of a Douglas fir tree. Acrocarp with linear leaves more than 10 times longer than wide. Leaves falcate-secund, 8-12 mm long, with two toothed rows on back of costa. Alar cells differentiated and inflated.
On base of tree trunk on the side of the path. Dioicous acrocarp. Stems 2-8 cm, in dense mats. Leaves 5-12 mm long, falcate-secund to straight and erect with serrate margins only in the tip. Median leaf cells elongate and strongly pitted. Alar cells not reaching the costa, and 2 toothed ridges protruding from the costa on the abaxial surface of the leaf.
Mother and kitten on Molas Pass
San Juan County, Colorado.
collected under Pinus ponderosa in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument with visiting OSU mycologist Dr. Dan Luoma
Phaeocollybia californica is the other mushroom in the photo. The location may have been burned in the Monument fire.
Per Russo (2021) this is an undescribed Walshomyia species on Juniperus occidentalis (Western Juniper)
https://www.gallformers.org/gall/2152
j-osteosperma-cone-gall
Urn Gall Midge on Juniperus occidentalis (Western Juniper)
See p. 81 "Plant Galls of the Western United States" 3rd Ed. by Russo (2021)
Leaves linear-oblong, 2-3-pinnate at base. Pinnae segments oblong. Abaxial surface of pinnae segments densely covered with branched hairs and threadlike scales. Scales on abaxial surface of costa long linear.
Growing on a basalt outcrop with Myriopteris intertexta and a possible hybrid. See associated observations:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/111420228
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/111420082
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/111419896
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/111419759
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/111419318
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/111419145
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/111418944
Plants growing in a seasonally wet meadow.
Leaves 10-15 cm in length, rigid.
Velum covering entire sporangium.
Sporangium wall unpigmented.
Megaspores white, lustrous, 400-450 μm in diameter, smooth to tuberculate.
In the December time frame I collected Valley Oak Acorns to dry and attempt to make acorn flour. I placed these in the garage to dry, which was not heated. When I looked at them in the April time frame I saw that many had larval holes.
Total acorns = 150, 21% had larval holes, 79% had none. The hole diameters ranged from about 1.2 mm to 2 mm, with an average of 1.6 mm. I found a larva and a pupa along with what appears to be feces in the bag when I emptied the acorns.
Photo 1, 2: Larva, pupa and feces. The larva is alive and is about 7 mm in length and about 2 mm across. The pupa is about 9 mm in length and about 2 mm across.
Photo 3, 4: Acorns without signs of infestation
Photo 5, 6: Acorns with signs of infestation.
Photo 7: Acorn kernel showing larva tracks.