Tanacetum parthenium
AKA Feverfew
This is a useful medicinal plant.
Tanacetum parthenium
Tanacetum parthenium
Tanacetum parthenium
Tanacetum parthenium
Tanacetum parthenium
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Spilogale gracilis
Spilogale gracilis is also known as the western spotted skunk or it sometimes is called a civet cat (the latter is locally common but also refers to a completely different animal).
These are valuable predators of rodents and yellow-jacket nests.
Spilogale gracilis
Spilogale gracilis
Spilogale gracilis
Spilogale gracilis
Spilogale gracilis
Monochamus scutellatus
Monochamus scutellatus
AKA Spotted Pine Sawyer
Monochamus scutellatus
Monochamus scutellatus
Monochamus scutellatus
Monochamus scutellatus
Monochamus scutellatus
Monochamus scutellatus
Monochamus scutellatus
Pituophis catenifer catenifer
Pacific gopher snake
Pituophis catenifer catenifer
Pituophis catenifer catenifer
Pituophis catenifer catenifer
Pituophis catenifer catenifer
Pituophis catenifer catenifer
Pituophis catenifer catenifer
Pituophis catenifer catenifer
Thamnophis atratus hydrophilus
Thamnophis atratus hydrophilus
Oregon Gartersnake
Thamnophis atratus hydrophilus
Thamnophis atratus hydrophilus
Thamnophis atratus hydrophilus
Thamnophis atratus hydrophilus
Thamnophis atratus hydrophilus
Thamnophis atratus hydrophilus
Thamnophis atratus hydrophilus
Thamnophis atratus hydrophilus
Thamnophis atratus hydrophilus
Batrachoseps attenuatus
Batrachoseps attenuatus
California slender salamander
3 March 2016
Batrachoseps attenuatus
Batrachoseps attenuatus
Dacne californica
Fungus beetles
A member of the “pleasing fungus beetles” or the Erotylidae.
The name is derived (Latinized) from the Greek word erotulos, ἐρωτύλος
Meaning Little Darlings or Sweethearts — in some sort of a reference to the beauty of some gem stones.
In the case of our ‘Little Darlings’ the color scheme is described as ferrugineous and piceous. (Rusty and pitch colored.)
As is common for a lot of beetles like this, these often play dead when disturbed.
The images showing a scale bar are slightly flattened due to the weight of the scale. A microscope reticle was used in which 20 units is 1 mm.
Camponotus
Carpenter ants
The genus is Camponotus but I don’t know the species.
The ants pictured are the remnants after the removal of their colony from an insulated ceiling. They were quite happy to excavate rigid foam.
Daldinia concentrica
Daldinia concentrica is also known as carbon balls.
This fungus exists as a long-lived endophyte inside of the tissues of Douglas-fir. Fruiting is triggered by drying following the death of the tree but the role that the fungus plays during those prior decades of life is not clear.
Daldinia concentrica
Aneides flavipunctatus flavipunctatus
Aneides flavipunctatus flavipunctatus is also known as the Speckled Black Salamander.
They can be solid black like this individual.
Or speckled with yellowish or whitish.
Aneides flavipunctatus flavipunctatus on 3 March 2016
Aneides flavipunctatus flavipunctatus
Aneides flavipunctatus flavipunctatus
Aneides flavipunctatus flavipunctatus
Aneides flavipunctatus flavipunctatus