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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Mulsantina pictaObservador
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From a pine tree.
Larva contemplating a tiny wadded-up insect.
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Melro-de-Brewer (Euphagus cyanocephalus)Observador
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Small flock singing on a wire.
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Cogumelos Lamelados (Ordem Agaricales)Observador
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Big ripped-up mushrooms, and another patch of them just emerging from the mulch.
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Género TamarixObservador
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Droopy, leafless bushes next to the lake.
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Chagas (Tropaeolum majus)Observador
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Weeds behind a building.
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Boas-Noites (Mirabilis jalapa)Observador
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Weeds behind a building.
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Alecrim (Salvia rosmarinus)Observador
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With a Monarch drinking from it.
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Borboleta-Monarca (Danaus plexippus)Observador
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Was drinking from rosemary flowers just before this.
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Geukensia demissaObservador
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Lots of big mussels along the shore.
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Íris-Fedorenta (Iris foetidissima)Observador
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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 EulachnusObservador
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From a pine tree.
Lots of these marching around.
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Agaricus bernardiiObservador
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Someone had clearly been through IDing this patch already.
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Gaivota-Do-Mar-de-Bering (Larus glaucescens)Observador
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Big like a Western.
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Goraz (Nycticorax nycticorax)Observador
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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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Abelha-Do-Mel (Apis mellifera)Observador
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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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Aranhas-Caranguejo-Corredeiras (Família Philodromidae)Observador
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On a native oak. Rolled up when bothered.
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Tribo OrgyiiniObservador
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On a native oak.
Shed skin of a small furry caterpillar.
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Piolhos-de-Árvore (Família Psocidae)Observador
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On a native oak.
Kind of springtail-shaped, but much bigger and not jumpy.
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Insetos Alados (Subclasse Pterygota)Observador
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Tiny worm on a native oak leaf.
Comentários
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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