Favoritos de mosesaubrey

oh man just when you think you have seen it all. Disclaimer this will be long.

So I observed the male under a gate observing his surroundings. Then he came across a dead female brown widow. Not sure if he wanted to eat it but he seemed to size it up. at one point he walked on top of it. then after about a 5 minutes of observing him he moved into a patch of grass. In that very small patch of grasses no more than a foot across was a female with a dead fly. So I ran inside to grab my camera.

What happened next blew my MIND!! I found the female in the grasses and a male attempting to court her. But it took me about 30 seconds to realize the male was also EATING the fly as well! there were a few times in which he tried to court her while eating! these little guys are so funny and opportunistic. eventually she managed to take the fly away from him. Finally she was at peace. or so she thought. he tried another 2 or 3 times to court her unsuccessfully. at one point he had his fangs out. you can see that form the screenshot of the last picture. I very rarely get to see a males fangs and I am not sure if he normally courts with his fang's out but it doesn't seem very common.

He also was very aggressive when attempting to court her but eventually after multiple lunges the male left.

These males are so opportunistic! I'm so glad I was able to document this interaction! I don't think anyone would believe me if I didn't have pictures.

Ovipositing into gall of Andricus kingi.

Stan State campus
Valley Oak grove on west side of Trans-California Pathway.

Host observation
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/156482892

Acknowledgments
@jennifer3370
@r171

The location I marked in Keene, CA is where I collected the Motyxia monica on March 10, 2013. The photos were taken the next day at Santa Barbara City College. My professor verified its bioluminescence and my ID for a project of his.

Maybe the craziest Experience EVER! I went to this grunion run and saw bioluminescent waves and first thought I was trippin. Then I realized I wasn't and it was beyond insane! It's not every day you go to not only a grunion run but get to see phytoplankton or algae do their thing. I only wish I had lenses with wider apertures lmao. Such a crazy thing to see these beautiful waves! What a spectacular night. Don't sleep on urban wildlife and Los Angeles's biodiversity. What a night!?!

"An insect made in the 80s" according to one member of our party. Despite spending some time trying to get the exposure right to capture the glow and the animal, I still failed to get the head in focus. Oi.

Unusual individual with fused AMEs. Behavior was completely normal, depth perception seemed unimpaired while following and interacting with prospective prey insects. A genetic abnormality, or the result of a molting defect?

A surprise visitor shows up on a marten researcher's camera trap.

This was the first documented wolverine in California since 1922, and caused quite a flap.

DNA from hair told us he was more related to populations in the Rocky Mountains than to California museum specimens. Isotopes in the hair told us where he'd been drinking his water: he started out in the Sawtooth of Idaho.

Could a wolverine walk that far, over freeways and developed areas? A radio-collared one made a similar trip from Canada to Wyoming the next year...

More info:
http://sagehen.blogspot.com/search/label/wolverine

Found sleeping in a pile of decaying oak logs, upon waking up, I noticed how it's eyes were cloudy and grey. It attempted to flee, but could not fly very well on account of it's lack of vision. I captured it and brought it to a Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in San Dimas.