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This is a duplicate posting of https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/182901685.
There I was mainly interested in the parasitoid wasp on the gall.
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Género BrasemaObserv.
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Looks like this is a parasitoid on Coyote Bush Bud Gall Midge, Rhopalomyia californica.
I'm just guessing on the species because Russo says that Platygaster californica is the most common parasitoid on the galls and photos I've seen are roughly the same. But I gather that there are a handful of others, some from different families like Torymidae and Pteromalidae.
The other photos show the twig and the wasp apparently ovipositing or getting ready to do that.
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Mosquitas de Féretro (Familia Phoridae)Observ.
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Several of these flies were hanging out at a Pheidole ant nest where something strange was going on, maybe an attack by Neivamyrmex army ants. I suggested that the flies might be phorids mostly because they're little, kind of chunky, and associated with a possible phorid host. I wish I had a better photo, but I never saw one land.
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BL 6 mm
Guessing Metaphidippus cf manni. Or maybe Pelegrina sp.
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Araña Lince Rayada (Oxyopes salticus)Observ.
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BL 7 mm. This is a very pale individual. Could it have just molted?
Collected (with permission) and released after photography.
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BL 5 mm
Collected (with permission) and released after photography.
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Arañas Cangrejo Alargadas (Género Tibellus)Observ.
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BL 10 mm
Collected (with permission) and released after photography.
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BL 5 mm
Note the powerful forelegs.
PME about equidistant between ALE and PLE, which wouldn't be typical of Sassacus.
Second photo shows it in the retreat it spun in the collection vial.
Collected (with permission) and released after photography.
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Araña Saltarina Verde Metálico (Sassacus vitis)Observ.
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BL 5 mm
Collected (with permission) and released after photography.
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Arañas Lobo (Familia Lycosidae)Observ.
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BL 4 mm
Collected (with permission) and released after photography.
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Oxyopes scalarisObserv.
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7 mm BL.
Collected (with permission) and released after photography.
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Arañas Cangrejo Vellosas (Género Mecaphesa)Observ.
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BL 6mm
Collected (with permission) and released after photography.
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Araña Lince Rayada (Oxyopes salticus)Observ.
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BL 5mm
Collected (with permission) and released after photography.
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BL 6 mm. PMEs are almost equidistant between ALEs and PLEs, but just a bit closer to the ALEs.
Collected (with permission) and released after photography.
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BL 5 mm
ALEs aren't distinct in the photos, but I think they're there.
Collected (with permission) and released after photography.
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7 mm BL
Collected (with permission) and released after photography.
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Oxyopes scalarisObserv.
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6 mm BL
Collected (with permission) and released after photography.
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Oxyopes scalarisObserv.
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7 mm BL
Collected (with permission) and released after photography.
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Género CasuarinaObserv.
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About 15 m tall, inside the ITT antenna farm in the Palo Alto Baylands.