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Febrero 25, 2024 a las 11:53 AM PST

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Hard to see, but some tiny teeth on the edge of these hairy leaves distinguish this species from related Madia species.

I've long wanted to get this species started both in Seattle again, as it was on my 1999 list of Seattle's lost ("extirpated") species, this one last recorded in Seattle by the herbaria in 1889 (Alki Point), or 1892 (location not clear) and the flower looked beautiful. I moved these 2 plants to Lincoln Park from the South Puget Sound area a few months ago, and chose a promising mossy forest edge for them, and they were both looking great, until a presumed Eastern Cottontail rabbit chewed one down to the top of the root, but the smaller rosette is what grew back after the Leporine (rabbit caused) setback! I tried the species in the park once before, and that plant didn't get far before dying, but I'm optimistic with these 2!

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Mariposa Almirante Rojo (Vanessa atalanta)

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Junio 30, 2023 a las 02:57 PM PDT

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This Red Admiral is perched on its host plant Stinging Nettle - Urtica dioica. I've only now seen a few Red Admirals at Lincoln Park this year, a species I never see that many of, and one I am monitoring because I started one patch of Stinging Nettles for them in a sunny spot where the butterflies can find them, and for 4 other butterfly species, that need them to lay eggs on, or that can lay eggs on nettles, as well as other species. After seeing one lay eggs on the plants, I am now looking for the shelters of their caterpillars that I call "tacos", the nettle leaves, with their sides curled up, their edges silked together, their undersides exposed, to make what I think of as a "taco shape". And a second butterfly species laying eggs on this patch of nettles.

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Junio 4, 2023 a las 01:18 PM PDT

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I only had seen one broken growing tip of a phantom orchid this year, and I've never seen a Phantom Orchid grow a new flower stalk after the initial growing stalk was broken. I was then afraid we would have none this year. I then checked the spot where I first discovered the species in the park, but where I hadn’t seen any in years, and found this one!

I will add that one almost surely can't successfully transplant a Phantom Orchid, as it is attached to a fungus that feeds it. The microscopic fungus mycelia is spread through the soil, and the fungus likely depends on a tree that couldn't be dug up with the fungal mycelia spread through the soil around the tree roots.

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Abril 27, 2023 a las 02:18 PM PDT

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Mariposa Ninfa (Polygonia satyrus)

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Abril 29, 2023 a las 03:51 PM PDT

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The butterfly is in the middle, under a leaf, mostly obscured by the shade, where it is laying an egg!

Two years ago, after someone dug up the nettle patch in my growing butterfly meadow, where I often see Satyr Commas, I planted a nettle root in this sunny spot, which grew into this nettle patch. I was very happy to see this one landing on the nettles, laying an egg on the underside of a leaf, taking a flight, land on the nettles again, and lay another egg on the underside of another leaf. It repeated this about seven times. I look forward to seeing the caterpillars!

The caterpillars will stay on the underside of the leaf, and make a tent by pulling the sides of the leaf down, and together with silk, leaving the front half of the leaf open, and will feed from the tip of the leaf to the petiole, leaving a petiole with no blade when they are done, then go to a new leaf, and do the same. In the 4th photo someone has pulled open the tent, the caterpillar was hiding under, to expose the caterpillar.

My journal post of how the egg laying on these Stinging Nettles was my first observed success in 27 years of working to get butterflies to lay eggs on plants growing where I started them growing!

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Salamandra Dedos Largos (Ambystoma macrodactylum)

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activatedk

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Julio 10, 2022 a las 12:33 PM PDT

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Head is large, distinctly wider than body. Head length is about one-third of the total length. Gills are usually held out at 90° from body.
SVL is about 12 mm. Found in water 7” deep.

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Salamandra del Noroeste (Ambystoma gracile)

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activatedk

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Julio 10, 2022 a las 12:36 PM PDT

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The body is slender and the head is large, distinctly wider than the body.
The body and head are tan and speckled but the gills very reddish in color.
The feathery gills fan out and up to the back at 45°. SVL length is approximately 15 mm.

The visible scale in photo shows inches.

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wastedwasp

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Mayo 15, 2021 a las 03:38 PM PDT

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Salmón Rosado (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha)

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ernestkeeley

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Octubre 19, 1995 a las 08:29 AM CST

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Spawning pink salmon, adult male and female

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Agosto 5, 2020 a las 04:58 PM PDT

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Roughly 7 generations growing in this spot, all self seeded since I brought three seeds here from the foothills of the Olympic Mountains 15 years ago. Thousands of plants here now. The ground is now covered with pappus hairs from this year’s seeds. As all of these plants are self-seeded it fits the iNaturalist definition of "wild", but I also thought people should know this is not part of a population that has persisted here since before European contact.

(Update 3/24 these thistles are no longer so dense here, but are still numerous.)

This species was on a list I found 21 years ago of those native species that hadn’t been recorded in Seattle in decades when I started studying how to identify them all, and just what habitats they naturally grew in, and looking for where I could find wild seed of the species on that list from sites physically and ecologically close to Seattle, to try planting in the most promising spots here.

I started with the goal of helping the recovery of butterfly species that had become rare in, or had disappeared from, Seattle, and knew thistles to be important as both butterfly nectar, and host (caterpillar food) plants, and had learned that all 4 of Seattle's native thistle species were on that list of our lost species. So I am pleased to see a bit of improved butterfly habitat in this spot where this native thistle species is thriving again!

I’ve since spent 15 years weeding this site and controlling the Artichoke Plume Moths https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/319034-Platyptilia-carduidactylus, the best I can, as the mother plants sent their offspring to occupy the growing patch of land vacated by my weeding around them. I also have a significant problem with non-viable seed, more later in the season, than with the initial crop, which I believe is due to predation of the receptacles, where the seeds develop, by the introduced Rhinocyllus conicus - the Nodding Thistle Receptacle Weevil https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/229899-Rhinocyllus-conicus .

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Mariposa Cometa Golondrina del Anís (Papilio zelicaon)

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Mayo 14, 2020 a las 01:55 PM PDT

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About my 5th or 6th Anise Swallowtail in Seattle in 20 years, and my first in Lincoln Park.

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Mayo 13, 2020 a las 01:35 PM PDT

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Not 100 percent sure of the species of Hesperia. This was the only photo I could get, but before I got my camera, I saw what I call the "zig-zag" silvery spots on the ventral hind wing that I distinguish Hesperia genus Skippers by. My first Hesperia in Seattle in over 20 years of looking. I saw it nectar on Tellima grandiflora - Fringe Cups. Also a species of plant I don't know I have seen a butterfly nectar on before. Hesperia colorado - Western Branded Skipper seems the most likely. While it didn't seem any bigger than our other than our common local orange Skipper of the same size and shape, the Woodland Skipper, that species wouldn't fly until July, and wouldn't have the silvery zig-zag marks on the ventral hindwing that I saw. The size suggests that it would be too small for a Juba Skipper.

I'm adding an edit on a subsequent year of another observation of mine of a Juba Skipper, also in Lincoln Park, the following year, on May 18th 2021.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/79307501
A series of recent records in West Seattle and Vashon suggest they may have been breeding in this area.

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sarka

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Enero 26, 2020

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harsiparker

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Noviembre 25, 2019 a las 03:08 PM PST

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Discovered while turning over wet leaves on the ground in an open area adjacent to a small pond and mixed coniferous-deciduous forest. Width of the shell was less than .5 cm. (I did not have a ruler with me, but the last photo shows my index finger for scale -- the width of my nail at the widest point is 1 cm.)

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aromatisse

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Mayo 6, 2019 a las 08:06 AM PDT

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Jaramago (Sisymbrium officinale)

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aromatisse

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Mayo 30, 2019 a las 12:28 PM PDT

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Camp Long (Google, OSM)

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Difficult to get a good pic of those long twisted looking stems

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Jaramago (Sisymbrium officinale)

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Mayo 5, 2017 a las 11:14 AM CEST

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Culebra Listonada Noroccidental (Thamnophis ordinoides)

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ajablu

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Agosto 27, 2019 a las 12:52 PM PDT

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aromatisse

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Abril 22, 2019 a las 11:18 AM PDT

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Feather shaped with new "feathers" growing out from the middle of the "feather" below.

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Purguera (Eupatorium cannabinum)

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aromatisse

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Julio 31, 2019 a las 08:59 PM SAST

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Pipa de Indio (Monotropa uniflora)

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Julio 28, 2019 a las 11:23 AM PDT

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Julio 27, 2019 a las 01:58 PM PDT

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drudanae

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Julio 23, 2019 a las 08:10 AM PDT

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Cardo Común (Cirsium vulgare)

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donkeykong91

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Julio 21, 2019 a las 08:10 AM PDT

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Julio 17, 2019 a las 01:35 AM CEST

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spiniger to the right, stercorarius to the left

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Chilillo Blanco (Persicaria lapathifolia)

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vi-curt

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Julio 17, 2019 a las 11:41 AM PDT

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Culebrilla de Cristal (Anguis fragilis)

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Junio 17, 2019 a las 06:54 PM CEST

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carbonmike

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Julio 14, 2019 a las 11:02 AM PDT

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maddie_b

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Junio 6, 2019 a las 04:58 PM PDT

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Araña Rayos de Dulce (Enoplognatha ovata)

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dcoldren

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Julio 25, 2017 a las 12:15 PM CDT

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Hierba de San Benito (Geum urbanum)

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thomas98

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Mayo 18, 2019 a las 05:44 PM PDT

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Cicuta (Conium maculatum)

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dlr_xxl

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Julio 4, 2019 a las 04:18 PM PDT

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Achicoria Europea (Sonchus oleraceus)

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Julio 3, 2019 a las 06:20 PM PDT

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Julio 1, 2019 a las 06:13 PM PDT

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Found on red alder. Grid is 1/8"

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chlorophilia

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Junio 24, 2017 a las 12:13 PM MST

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Mariposa Vanesa Pintada (Vanessa cardui)

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redwolf

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Junio 29, 2019 a las 01:50 PM PDT

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Falsa Naranja (Philadelphus lewisii)

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guyfix2020

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Junio 28, 2019 a las 07:16 PM PDT

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Lonchite (Struthiopteris spicant)

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harsiparker

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Junio 22, 2016 a las 02:32 PM PDT

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While this species does grows wild on the island, this particular fern was on the edge of a trail on conserved land and may well be intentionally planted.

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Lonchite (Struthiopteris spicant)

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Junio 16, 2019 a las 04:22 PM CDT

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Correhuela Mayor (Calystegia sepium)

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natureguy

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Junio 25, 2019 a las 01:13 PM PDT

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Flowers of Field Bindweed only about 1" across. Pictures of flower side view (showing bracts) and leaves included.

Source: DSC01144x

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gbk

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Junio 16, 2019 a las 03:06 PM PDT

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Gusano de Bolsa (Hyphantria cunea)

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bellaormseth

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Junio 3, 2019 a las 07:36 AM PDT

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Small white moth, about 2/3 inch in length, found by porch light in morning with 4 identical moths.

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Fresa Anual (Fragaria virginiana)

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derekkillby

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Junio 21, 2019 a las 08:43 AM PDT

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Ortiga Californiana (Urtica gracilis)

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beaharrison1

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Junio 19, 2019 a las 01:08 PM PDT

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Saúco Rojo (Sambucus racemosa)

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astyring

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Junio 9, 2019 a las 08:06 AM PDT

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sarahjane2

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Junio 2019

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Acebo (Ilex aquifolium)

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northvandad

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Junio 3, 2019 a las 11:11 AM PDT

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Culebras Semiacuáticas (Género Thamnophis)

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ameliam

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Junio 3, 2019 a las 02:06 PM PDT

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Geranio de San Roberto (Geranium robertianum)

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Junio 2, 2019 a las 05:20 PM PDT

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Zacate Azul de Kentucky (Poa pratensis)

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Mayo 30, 2019 a las 02:40 PM PDT

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4 to 5 foot tall on a dry sunny slope.

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benkeen

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Febrero 14, 2019 a las 09:25 AM PST

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Topo de Townsend (Scapanus townsendii)

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mrfish33

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Mayo 13, 2019 a las 04:30 PM PDT

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tomerler

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Mayo 14, 2019 a las 03:03 PM PDT

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Stewart Wechsler find! This is the one with the protective fence surrounding it.

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Roble Venenoso del Pacífico (Toxicodendron diversilobum)

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sierra57

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Mayo 10, 2019 a las 06:22 PM PDT