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Common Paper Wasp (Polistes exclamans)

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Coastal Wood Fern (3)
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Fiddler Crabs (Unca crenulata) (15)
Sacken's velvet ant (9)
Predatory Sand Wasps (17)
Pacific Sand Dune Wasp (Bembix americana) (5)
Red-Haried Velvet "Ant" (Pseudomethoca anthracina) (7)
Mud Flat Crab (Hemigrapsus oregonensis) (5)

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Sea Cliff Environment (12)

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California Ground Squirrel (20)

Coastal Plains (1)

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Soft Chess (Bromus hordeaceus) (2)
African Fountaingrass (Pennisetum setaceum) (11)
Natal Grass (Rhynchelytrum repens) (3)
Ripgut Brome (Bromus diandrus) (1)
Goldentop Grass (Lamarckia aurea) (3)
Hare Barley (Hordeum murinum leporinum) (2)
grass_land_gallery (6)
Narrow-leaf Bedstraw (Galium angustifolium) (7)
Wild Oats (Avena fatua) (3)
Quaking Grass (Briza minor) (1)
Mountain White Current (Ribes indecorum) (2)
Crab Grass (Digitaria sanguinalis) (1)
Purple Needle Grass (Nassella pulchra) (1)
Rye Grass (Festuca perennis) (1)
Beard Grass (Polypogon monspeliensis) (3)
San Diego Needle Grass (Stipa diegoensis) (1)
Giant Stipa Grass (Stipa coronata) (1)
Dallis Grass (Paspalum dilatatum) (2)
Tarweed (Deinandra fasciculata) (4)

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California Ground Squirrel (20)
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Mule Deer (14)

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Southern Sagebrush Lizard (11)

Forest Insects (9)

Acmon Blue (Plebejus acmon ) (7)
Carpenter Bee (5)

The Desert (1)

Desert Perennials (0)

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Duck Hybrids (5)

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Marbled Godwits mating (7)

Sanderling -taking a bath (6)

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Wilson's Snipe (17)
Black Necked Stilt (76)

Black-necked Stilts - mating sequence (10)

Bristle-thighed Curlew (2)

Greater Yellowlegs (62)
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Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs (4)

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Black Skimmer (47)
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Northern Fulmar (16)
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Black-vented Shearwater (59)
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Indigo Bunting (62)
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Diskcissel (16)
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European Goshawk (4)
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Allen's Hummingbird (43)
Anna's Hummingbird (110)

Anna's Hummingbird-mating sequences (17)

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Mississippi Kite (55)
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Horned Lark (69)
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Lilac- Crowned Parrot (12)
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Phainopepla (55)
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Red-throated Pipit (17)
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Willow Ptarmigan (6)

Quail (0)

California Quail (36)
Gambel's Quail (5)

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Dark-eyed Junco (52)
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Cedar Waxwing (55)
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Pin-tailed Whydah (1)
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Wrentit (83)
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Eastern (Gray) Chipmunk (Tamias minimus) (7)
Merriam Chipmunk (1)
Uinta Chipmonk - South Dakota (2)
Yellow-pine Chipmonk (10)
Chickaree or Douglas Squirrel (4)
Arctic Ground Squirrel (7)
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Douglas's Squirrel (Tamiasciurus douglasii) (4)
Gray Squirrel (3)
Wyoming Ground Squirrel (Spermophilus elegans) (5)
Eastern Gray Squirrel (3)
Red Squirrel (1)
Red (Eastern) Fox Squirrel (4)
Idaho Squirrel (2)
Antelope Ground Squirrel (4)

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Black Bear (4)
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Bottlenose Dolphin (10)
Common Dolphin (5)

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Tiger Whiptail (23)
Western Skink (Eumeces skiltonianus) (1)
Green Anole (Anolis carolinensis) (38)
Brown Anole (Anole sagrei) (3)

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Red Racer (1)
Chaparral Patch-nose Snake (2)

Turtles (0)

Tortoise (4)
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Northern Anchovy (4)
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Tumbling Flower Beetle (Mordella sp.) (0)

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Bee Flies (1)

Crane Flies (7)
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Western Encephalitis Mosquito (Culex tarsalis) (3)
Tachinid Fly (Pararchytas decisus) (2)
Robber Flies (1)

Muscid Flies (9)

Oriental Latrine Fly (Chrysomya megacephala) (2)

Fruit Fly (Dioxyna ) sp (1)
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Mexican Cactus Fly (Copestylum mexicana) (1)
Hover Flies (1)

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Monarchs Mating (7)

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Ants (6)
Bees (0)

Bumble Bee ( Bombus sp) (2)
Carpenter Bee (5)
Green Metallic Bee (Agapostemon sp.) (4)
Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) (6)
Yellow-faced Bee (Bombus vosnesenkii) (2)
Bumble Bee (1)
Mining Bee (Andrena sp. ) (2)

Wasps (1)

Ichneumond Wasps (6)
Predatory Sand Wasps (17)
Pacific Sand Dune Wasp (Bembix americana) (5)
Tarantula Hawks (Pepsis sps) (0)

Sacken's velvet ant (9)
Red-Haried Velvet "Ant" (Pseudomethoca anthracina) (7)
Velvet Ant (Dasymutilla sp) Wasp (8)
Miscanellous Wasps (7)
Cherry Slug Wasp (Caliroa-cerasi) (3)
Crabronid Wasp (Bicyrtes sp) (4)
Unknown Wasps (4)
Bristly Roseslug (Cladius difformis) (9)
Potter Wasp (Eumenes bollii) (3)
Square-headed Wasp (Liris sp. ) (2)
Common Paper Wasp (Polistes exclamans) (15)
Burrowing Wasps (Ammophila) sp (4)
Spider Wasp (Aporus sp) (1)

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Antlions (Brachynemurus sackeni) (15)
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Snakefly (Agulla unicolor) (1)

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Damselfies (0)

Unidentified Damselflies (0)
Ebony Jewelwing (Calopteryx maculata) (3)
Vivid Dancer (Argia Vivida) (2)
California Dancer (Argia agrioides) (2)

Dragonflies (0)

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Ambush Bugs (Phymata sp.) (2)
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Bee Hunter Assassin Bug (Apiomerus californicus) (2)
Brown Assassin Bug (2)
Leaf-hopper Assassin Bug (Zelus renardii) (19)
Red Assassin Bug (5)

Plant Bugs (0)

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Red Bug (Lodosiana aegyptius) (8)
Spotted Cucumber Beetle (Diabrotica undecimpunctata) (1)
Large Milkweed Bug (Oncopeltus fasciatus) (12)
Cactus Bug (Narnia femorata ) (13)
Stink Bugs (0)

Rough Stink Bug (0)

Rough Stinkbug (Brochymena affinis) (10)

Uhler's stink bug (Chlorochroa uhleri) (4)

Homoptera - Aphids, scale, mealybugs, etc (1)

Ephemeroptera (Mayflies) (1)
Psocodea (Barklice, Booklice, and Parasitic Lice) (0)

Bark Lice (Cerastipsocus venosus) (10)

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Order Thysanura (Firebrats and Silverfish) (5)

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Silver Argiope (Argiope argentata) (32)
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Long Jawed Orb Weaver (Tetragnatha laboriosa) (2)
Spotted Orb Weavering Spider (Neoscona crucifera) (25)
Sun spiders (2)
Crab Spiders (4)
Black Widow (Latrodectus hesperus) (12)
Brown Widow (Latrodectus geometricus) (10)
Green Lynx Spider (Peucetia viridans) (31)
Wolf Spider (Schizocosa mccooki) (5)
Jumping spider (Metaphidippus sp.) (4)

Jumping Spider (Sassacus vitis) (1)

Johnson Jumping Spider (Phidippus johnsoni) (4)
Jumping Spider (3)
Funnel Weaver Spiders (Grass Spiders) (19)
Unidentified Spiders (5)
Harvestman (Protolophus) (2)
Grass Spider (4)
Tree Spider (Araneus gemma) (22)
Thin-legged Shore Spider (Pardosa milvina) (2)
Orb Weaver (Cyclosa turbinata) (1)
Bowl and Doily Spider (Frontinella communis) (2)
Hacklemesh Weaver (Metaltella simoni) (3)
Golden Silk Orbweaver - (Nephila clavipes) (1)
Steathy Ground Spider (Sergiolus montanus) (2)
Dewdrop Spider (Argyrodes Sps) (10)
Daddy Long-legs Spider ( Pholcus phalangioides ) (3)
Red and White Steatoda (Asagena fulva) (6)
Long Legged Sac Spider ( Cheiracanthium inclusum ) (2)
Jumping spider (Phidippus adumbratus) (4)

Invertebrates (4)

Mud Flat Crab (Hemigrapsus oregonensis) (5)
Fiddler Crabs (Unca crenulata) (15)
Striped Shore Crab (Pachygrapsus crassipes) (2)
Flatworms (Platyhelminthes) (7)
Mollusca (snails, slugs, etc) (3)

Crayfish (2)
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Pelagic crabs ( Pleuroncodes planipes) (2)
Portunus Crab (1)

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Travel Day - Bus Talkeetna, Train, Bus (38)
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Dogbane (Apocyneum androsaemifolium) (3)
Arctic Lupine (Lupinus arcticus) (2)
Blue Bells (Mertensia paniculata) (3)
Labrador Tea (Ladum plaustre groenladicum) (3)
Western Dogwood (1)
Common Dandelion (Taraxacum sps) (2)
Wood Rose (Rosa woodsii) (2)
Cutleaf Fleabane (Erigeron compositus glabratus) (1)
Blackish Oxytrope (Oxytropis nigrescens) (1)
Mountain Avens (Dryas octopetala) (3)
Dwarf Fireweed (Epilobium latifolium) (2)
Arctic Moss (1)
Arctic Sweet Coltsfoot (Petasites frigidus) (4)

Vancover, Cananda (17)
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White Water Lily (Nymphacea odorata) (3)
Red Baneberry (Actaea rubra) (1)
White Baneberry (Actaea pachypoda) (1)
Northern Bedstraw (Galium boreale) (1)
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Canada Goldenrod (Solidago canadensis) (2)
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Spreading Dogbane (1)
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