Lake Merritt Bioblitz
A beautiful sunny day! It turns out that Lake Merritt is really big and has nudibranchs in it (whaaaaat). I said hello to gyrrfalcon and met kueda and robberfly, who are all rad and are collectively the first through third people I have ever met "from the internet."
My favorite find was this secret tiny burrow that emitted bees, my favorite vicarious find was Ken-ichi's splendid millipede, and my favorite knowledge-find was learning that Lake Merritt has a full suite of animals that I would normally only expect to see on a reef, just writ browner and smaller. Tiny anemones, tube worms, glass shrimp, sea slaters, and sea slugs.
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Catarina Pintada (Mulsantina picta)Autor
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From a pine tree.
Larva contemplating a tiny wadded-up insect.
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Tordo Ojos Amarillos (Euphagus cyanocephalus)Autor
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Small flock singing on a wire.
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Hongos con Láminas (Orden Agaricales)Autor
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Big ripped-up mushrooms, and another patch of them just emerging from the mulch.
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Tamariscos (Género Tamarix)Autor
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Droopy, leafless bushes next to the lake.
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Mastuerzo Sudamericano (Tropaeolum majus)Autor
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Weeds behind a building.
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Maravilla (Mirabilis jalapa)Autor
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Weeds behind a building.
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Romero (Salvia rosmarinus)Autor
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With a Monarch drinking from it.
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Mariposa Monarca (Danaus plexippus)Autor
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Was drinking from rosemary flowers just before this.
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Mejillón Acanalado del Norte (Geukensia demissa)Autor
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Lots of big mussels along the shore.
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Thisss stuffff. Starts out as garden flowers and spreads all over the shop. Smells when you disturb it. Only in flower for a week or so, but has pods of bright red-orange berries that stay on all year.
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Género EulachnusAutor
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From a pine tree.
Lots of these marching around.
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Someone had clearly been through IDing this patch already.
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Gaviota Alas Blancas (Larus glaucescens)Autor
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Big like a Western.
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Garza Nocturna Corona Negra (Nycticorax nycticorax)Autor
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Imperturbable. When driving by later, saw this same bird perched on the fence railing literally one foot away from someone taking his photo. Night heron don't care.
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Abeja Melífera Europea (Apis mellifera)Autor
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Blurry bee on a tee tree.
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On a native oak.
I'm not sure if the spiders in both photos are the same one; it looks like the abdomen pattern changes, but then they both have the same weird grub thing.
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Tribu OrgyiiniAutor
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On a native oak.
Shed skin of a small furry caterpillar.
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Familia PsocidaeAutor
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On a native oak.
Kind of springtail-shaped, but much bigger and not jumpy.
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Insectos Alados (Subclase Pterygota)Autor
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Tiny worm on a native oak leaf.
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Cochinillas Harinosas (Familia Pseudococcidae)Autor
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On a native oak.
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Chinches de Las Plantas (Familia Miridae)Autor
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On a native oak.
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And there's a swank new journal format!
Hah, yeah, smaller and browner and more international. We people from the Internet aren't all that bad, I hope. And yup, journals are changing to support a new kind of post called a "trip" that will let you set start and end times and list all the species you were looking for and did or did not find. Still working on it, though.
Also loved being one of the internet people you've met. Delighted to now be a fully human friend.
I am also delighted by this!
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