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Hills, Mountains, and Canyons of Azusa, California, USA

 
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cacoseraph
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 1:59 pm    Post subject: Hills, Mountains, and Canyons of Azusa, California, USA Reply with quote
I can't think of anything clever or informative to put here. I just got back from this place, along with Warren and Paul (wburke17 and ronin).

Very beautiful. Game bugs are a bit scarcer, it seems... but there are some amazing views and very weird plant and animal life out there that we *have* found

enough words. the first thing i will post is a youtube of an angry little caterpillar

Angry Unidentified Caterpillar hifi

This fuzzy fellow is about 2.5-2.75"/6.5-7cm long. I did not pick it up (though i love playing with bugs) because i was worried that since it might have itching hairs/poison needles and i was all hot and sweaty from walking around in the mountains for the previous 4.5 hours that something bad might be able to happen =P

Also... this was one ANGRY caterpillar! Granted I *was* sort of giving him the the ol' dry grass tickle... but still... ANGRY!

This guy lives in the foothills above Azusa, Califorina, USA.


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Angry unidentified caterpillar Azusa California USA poison needles ATTACK!




Nice place. newish mountains so there is still some good jaggediness to see


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though man has tainted even this location to some degree nature seems to have the situation well in hand

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Dr. Seuss called, he said he wants his plant back because Horton needs it.

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commie larva. commie larve? yeah, leftist *pinko* commie larva. think this is a glower

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i was kind of wondering why this guy was acting as calm as it was... now i see =P

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and just to make sure no one messes up the joint, we locked up after we were through



(i still have to redo and upload the pics i took yesterday (friday, may 25) when i was scouting)

May 25, 2007: Friday

Scenery

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Fauna (invertebrate) (the good stuff)

this thing had big pointy jaws. i was a little hesitant to pick it up at first, but i did and it was nice.

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i found this guy wandering on my arm.

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these are common. i think Warren's boy said they are Pretty Lady (he might have been talkign about dif butterfly though)

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found a single wing under a rock

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this was a little bit more brightly colored in real life. i think i saw adults, they looked like box elder bugs kinda

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this has got to be the best camo i have ever taken a picture of, and probably the best i have seen in real life. these things are ghostly, like. i think they are like, non-man dependant "silverfish"

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didn't even see the baby (mate?) in real life. only saw it after i got home.

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this spider was quite small. only a couple mm bodylength and a few/4 mm legspan, i would say. and fast! Thomisidae crab spider?

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i thought this guy was pretty sharp looking. a small pic of it almost on my hand for size reference. i am a fairly big guy, i guess.



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This is probably my favorite spider find of the day. i am regretting not taking it... but i do believe i remember where the tree/rock i found it are. It spins cribellate web. i thought it was a black hole spider, Kukulcania sp. at first. Now i have no idea. Maybe it is some kind of Filistidae (or Gnaphosidae, are they cribellate?) or Segestriidae? Seg is cribellate, at least in part, it looks

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size reference. it is not a huge spider. but it is a looker!
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Sparky



Joined: 15 Dec 2007
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Location: Long Beach CA
PostPosted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 5:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
WOW nice pictures, California has some really nice places that I sadly can't go to Sad.

and that "guy" wandering your arm is a queen ant.
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 6:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sparky wrote:
WOW nice pictures, California has some really nice places that I sadly can't go to Sad.

and that "guy" wandering your arm is a queen ant.


Why can't you go?
I hope one of these days, you'll join us. We've got a BugBBQ coming up in January!
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Sparky



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Location: Long Beach CA
PostPosted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 6:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
ahh, its just my parents. They're too lazy to take me anywhere, I want to go with one of you guys, but with all the scary news, my parents think that everyone online is out to get me. Yup, just me, not anyone else, jjjuuuussstttt me.

Long Beach doesn't have any interesting inverts either.  Sad
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What
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Location: Aliso Viejo, CA
PostPosted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 10:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thats not true... You have L. hesperus and L. geometricus, heck you probably have some exotics down near the harbor....
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Sparky



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Location: Long Beach CA
PostPosted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 5:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yeah we have hundreds of widows here, but I'm not interested in them that much. I kept 2 or 3 and ended up not liking them.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 6:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Well, go look for Isometrus maculatus then... There was once a population of them in Long Beach.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 6:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
nice finds  Very Happy
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