Favoritos de biocowboy

Spotted at Caspers wilderness Park on 7/4/21 on a mountain bike ride. The coyote was standing at attention and I was photographing it when the badger crossed interview and the coyote moved off. Presumably this was a symbiotic feeding behavior

Collected gall from Ceanothus verrucosus on 4/11/21.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/73583630

Gall cut open to find larvae inside on 4/21/21 and placed in container with a cup of soil.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/74768171

7 midges emerged today.

'Not sure how this is best posted to iNat. Obviously a mule deer, but I'm posting it as evidence of a mountain lion/mountain lion feeding (possibly kill) site.

Photo of tracks at this kill site posted as a separate observation (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/138907514).

Location approximately .75 miles from mountain lion trail camera observations on 10.7.22 (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/137941025) and 10.13.22 (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/138726512)

[see my 10.18.22 Comment on my changes to this observation; I'm leaving the original information]

Angular shaped Pupa, approx. 4cm long. I found 9 of those in an area of about 50 sqm. I searched all pupa images at https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org and the only species that somewhat resemble these pupae are Cloudless Sulphur and Margined White. There’s a Cloudless Sulphur Pupa on iNat, observed by @jmtobin6975: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/13310224. It’s not really a match, but possibly a direction? Host plants included Cliff Aster, dry Clustered Tarweed, dry California Cudweed. I lightly touched one of the pupae and felt the shape of a small abdomen or caterpillar, approx. 7.5mm in length. It was fascinating how these pupae are anchored to their host plants, with several strands of fine silk.