Female possibly showing remnants of a sphragis.
Multiple heard, one seen.
On Los Coyotes tribal land - $10 fee to hike. I heard a few individuals about 3.5mi up the trail, above 6000ft in elevation, in at least two different spots. There were 3 calling where I photographed this individual. I believe I also heard one further down the trail, a little above the intersection between Sukat and Hot Springs Mountain Rd, still above 6000ft. All seemed to be calling from the pine needle/leaf litter on the ground.
Mixed coniferous forest with incense-cedar and Coulter's, Jeffrey's, and Sugar Pine based on nearby iNat observations.
Sunny, high 40s/low 50s, windy.
Wet mossy vertical cliffs in spray zone of river (Ghunsa Khola). Tens of thousands in bloom. Scale is in cm with mm divisions. KATH Herbarium collection 143010. E. Byers # 2032.
Host: Toyon
Approximate location
Juniper Canyon Trail
Tiny 1-2 mm beetle beat from conifer and collected, 1.4 mm, tentative family ID. Specimen photos taken at the California Academy of Sciences.
Observed on topside of Quercus agrifolia leaf. Just under 2mm in length.
This photo was taken at the Los Angeles County Arboretum. This lady beetle was found on flower pedals. While it did not fly while I observed it, it did crawl around on the pedal. The weather was warm.
Exhibition Drive, Titirangi, Auckland.
One scale on a small nikau, trackside.
On Cupressus macrocarpa
second photo: underside
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the plants behind the sparrow
Taphrina cornu-cervi Giesenh. in Kirk, P. (2020). Species Fungorum for CoL+. In O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, L. Vandepitte, D. Hobern, D. Remsen, P. Schalk, R. E. DeWalt, M. Keping, J. Miller, T. Orrell, R. Aalbu, R. Adlard, E. M. Adriaenssens, C. Aedo, E. Aescht, N. Akkari, S. Alexander, et al., Catalogue of Life Checklist (Feb 2020). https://doi.org/10.48580/dfp3-4hj
I’ve never seen one like this. The wings were entirely black. Larger than Pallid Bandwing.
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Male, "blinking" on and off by changing the angle of its body. Thank you @leslieh for the ID, it certainly had us stumped.
Site: San Miguel
Dave Rabanes, Salaya Beach Houses
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Plantago princeps Cham. & Schltdl. var. anomala Rock
Perennial herb. Green stems and leaves emerging from soil.
Elev. c 5,000’
Now apparently within albifrons
On Cordia subcordata leaf. Photos under daylight and 365 nanometer UV light. Microscopic photos at 100x and 490x
Oblong ascostroma with rounded to acute ends, centrally swollen; cross section 1.3 mm wide, 0.5 mm tall, with multiple parallel locules.
Ascospores 57-64 x 23-26 µm, hyaline to dark brown, starting in layer of mucous; oblong elliptical with acute ends, flattened on one side, and with longitudinal depression; distinctly the shape of a date seed. Ascospores and ascogenous tissue KOH+ green.
Plant collected by California State Parks (Colorado Desert District) botany staff.
I've really been struggling with these annual Juncus species, but it appears to narrow down to J. luciensis based upon the generally 1 flower per stem (sometimes 2), 2 bractlets (separating it from J. uncialis), light green fruit and plant body, dark perianth and leaf tips, and what appear to be striate immature seeds (separating it from J. bryoides). It also does not look to be J. kelloggii, J. triformis, or J. tiehmii. Co-occurred with J. bufonius.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Was temporarily inside the glassed-in upper floor of the tower. Reasonably certain of the genus, but don't know the species.
Hybrid between Black-throated Gray and Hermit Warbler.
Volunteers. Clawed white petals, erect linear fruits, cauline leaves not petioled.
Found in salt water aquarium. Collected from gulf coast.
On dead branches of Quercus chrysolepis.
Ascomta perithecia in erumpent stroma; necks non-valsoid.
Asci polysporus, bitunicate, long stipe, 105 x 10 μm. Ascospores hyaline, allantoid, 5-7 x 1-1.2 μm.
High elevation chaparral and mixed forest, Pseudotsuga macrocarpa, Pinus ponderosa, Quercus chrysolepis, Hesperoyucca whipplei.
Growing on leaves and twigs submerged underwater ~4 in deep in mildly turbulent stream from snowmelt runoff. Area had been covered in snow two weeks previously, but it was absent at the time of the observation, with last traces visible in between peaks at the highest elevation.
Most caps clearly developing and expanding underwater; others starting above water out of saturated margins of the stream. “Aquatic” caps bursting through layer of algae on surface of the water, but no algae on the underwater substrate.
Underwater caps alabaster at button stages, expanding to brown with white cracked pattern. Above-water caps more dome-shaped, velvety, zonate. Both hygrophanous. Gill margins white; consistent feature.
Stipe lacking annulus, extraordinary flexible for Psathyrella. Rigid inner layer (revealed by microscopy to be a dark conglutination) and a squishy, plastic-bag-like outer layer (consisting of lighter hyphae in pyramidal ridges).
Spores deposit purple black.
Spores cigar brown. KOH+ fuscous. With apical pores. [11.8] 12.25-13.18 [13.9] x [6.2] 6.62-7.2 7[7.8] μm
Q [1.71] 1.74-1.89[2]
Spores measured from spore print deposited from mushroom cap that developed underwater; evidence for this is the presence of diatoms in the cross section of this mushroom.
On this same cross section are spores that appear to have germinated on the gills.
Hillsborough end of Taumanu Reserve, Hillsborough/Onehunga, Auckland. On karo, by the start of the boardwalk.
The spores are round and smooth, with a small pigtail. Fruiting body often looks like an acorn.
Spores are at 1000x, 1.00 micron divisions.
On friable clay lens with Harpagonella palmeri and Microseris douglasii platycarpha.
Saw this at Carlsbad Caverns in NM today. Book says it's a rare vagrant in south Texas only, but here it is in southeast NM.
Swept from scrubby vegetation in chaparral, mostly Quercus garryana.