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Genus DrassyllusObserver
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Drops in ventral photo is water. (I forgot to dry the sink bowl.) But it clearly shows "something" that has to do with genitalia, although I haven't a clue what it is.
This guy/gal was fast! If I hadn't been chasing it down the empty hallway, it would have found a place to hide.
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Cutworms and Dart Moths (Subfamily Noctuinae)Observer
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In the vegetable garden, possibly what has been eating the zucchini leaves.
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Subtribe SpilosominaObserver
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Only one, in the driveway. No others on the nearby trees & shrubs. It was hard to hold on to -- a vigorous wiggler!
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Western Sculptured Pine Borer (Chalcophora angulicollis)Observer
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Many of the ponderosa pines in my 50 year-old neighborhood have wounds oozing sap. But I have yet to see any larva, so don't know which borer species are doing the most damage.
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Rain Beetle (Pterostichus melanarius)Observer
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AI's guess. In the dining room.
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Agonum muelleriObserver
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In the basement, next to the slider. This is a guess, based on the colored iridescence.
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Subgenus LasiusObserver
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I looked at Lasius (iNat's AI suggestion) in @critters_pnw key but I don't know enough of the terms and didn't get macros of the head. Disturbed when I moved a boulder, they were moving sooo fast.
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California Quail (Callipepla californica)Observer
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Although I don't often see them, I heard their chirping often during the spring and assume they nested in the large mass of juniper.
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Beautiful Mantidfly (Leptomantispa pulchella)Observer
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What a gorgeous insect. I've seen it only one time, and that was on the bathroom window!
Released outside unharmed.
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Buttercups (Genus Ranunculus)Observer
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iNat suggested only "Plants." Surely these old photos aren't that bad.
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Water Forget-Me-Not (Myosotis scorpioides)Observer
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Darn. I've been waiting to figure this one out for a long time. And it isn't a native. So pretty though, growing in a soggy area in heavy shade.
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European Mantis (Mantis religiosa)Observer
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So cute, for a critter that doesn't mind headless copulation.
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Idaho Forestsnail (Allogona ptychophora)Observer
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@molissca, for future Spokane snails, what perspective of photos will help ID them?
Ventral?
Macro of the head?
Thank you for your advice.
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Koch's Wolf Spider (Alopecosa kochi)Observer
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Outside next to a coarse looking sheet web that went from the concrete foundation to a pine cone. But I don't know if it made the web.
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Common Loopwing Aphideater (Lapposyrphus lapponicus)Observer
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On a dandelion.
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Megachile angelarumObserver
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Found on marjoram.
Small -- first photo is on a chopstick.
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Red-belted Bumble Bee (Bombus rufocinctus)Observer
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Orange tipped? Tri colored? Red belted?
On clover.
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Long-palped Ant-mimic Sac Spider (Castianeira longipalpus)Observer
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This is the iNat suggestion. I have no idea.
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Observer
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Is this a lumpy variant of the triangulate comb foot? If it is, why does it look so different compared to this one?
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/181107997