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gcwarblerDescripción
This is the grass fed on by a migrant Painted Bunting in our yard (4/15/24).
Grid on backdrop is 5 mm squares.
See, https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/207462187
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Pinacate de Gory (Eleodes goryi)Observ.
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This stink beetle was apparently recently deceased but entirely intact. TL about 18 to 20 mm.
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These 2.5 to 3 mm gray beetles were super-abundant on most prickly-pear flowers. On enlargement, they can be seen to have mostly red-orange legs.
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Carbonero Cresta Negra (Baeolophus atricristatus)Observ.
gcwarblerDescripción
Carrying an unidentified larva.
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gcwarblerDescripción
These small Acmaeodera were common on prickly-pear flowers. Most were on the order of 5 to 7 mm long.
The yellow elytral markings were quite variable but usually formed a fairly complete dorsal-lateral stripe which is slightly curved/bowed in the proximal half.
On 27 pages of Acmaeodera on BG (about 130 spp illustrated), I'm not finding a particularly close match to anything. Based on the key and illustrations in Hansen (2023; link on BG), this may be some form of A. neglecta or A. neoneglecta.
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Pitorreal (Ephedra antisyphilitica)Observ.
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Apparently these are the fresh cones on this joint-fir. I don’t know that I’d ever seen them like this.
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Apio Silvestre (Cyclospermum leptophyllum)Observ.
gcwarblerDescripción
iNat’s CV is so “used to” seeing Black Swallowtail larvae on this species that it lists that butterfly as 2nd choice here—even though there’s no larva present!
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gcwarblerDescripción
Common but inconspicuous, hidden among all the other dazzling wildflowers and foliage.
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Mariposa Blanca con Parches Negros (Pontia protodice)Observ.
gcwarblerDescripción
On Virginia Pepperweed.
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Mariposa Blanca con Parches Negros (Pontia protodice)Observ.
gcwarblerDescripción
On Virginia Pepperweed.
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Colorín Sietecolores (Passerina ciris)Observ.
gcwarblerDescripción
First of the season in our yard and an uncommon migrant here in suburbia. The same as a male Painted Bunting did last year, we watched this PABU jump up and eat some seeds of Scribner's Panicgrass (Panicum oligosanthes ssp. scribnerianum; which can be seen blurry in the picture). See,
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/207619861
