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List of LQA first observations

July 2016

  1. Bald-faced hornet 7
  2. Yellow Douglas Fir Borer 6
  3. Western Tiger Swallowtail 7
  4. Genus Chironomus 7
  5. American Goldfinch 7
  6. House Sparrow 7
  7. American Robin 7
  8. Eurasian Collared-Dove 7
  9. Leopard Slug 8
  10. Common Tree Crickets 8
  11. Fox Squirrel 9
  12. Dwarf Mallow 9
  13. Nipplewort 9
  14. California Poppy 9
  15. Prickly Sowthistle 9
  16. Alfalfa Looper 9
  17. Calliope Hummingbird 13
  18. Mylitta Crescent 16
  19. Western Honey Bee 16
  20. Meadow Mushroom 18
  21. Gray Hairstreak 18
  22. White Clover 18
  23. Feverfew 18
  24. Spine-waisted Ants 19
  25. Cabbage White 19
  26. Formica neoclara (Wood, Mound, and Field Ants) 19
  27. Western Terrestrial Garter Snake 20
  28. Yellow Salsify 21
  29. Sierran Tree Frog 21
  30. European Wool Carder Bee 21
  31. Genus Triepeolus (Cuckoo Bees) 21
  32. Mourning Dove 21
  33. Prickly Lettuce 21
  34. Cottontail Rabbits 21
  35. European Harvestman 22
  36. Convergent Lady Beetle 22
  37. European Earwig 22
  38. Hunt's Bumble Bee 22
  39. Downy Woodpecker 24
  40. Striped Skunk 24
  41. Ring-necked Pheasant 24
  42. Carolina Grasshopper 24
  43. Black-capped Chickadee 24
  44. Red-breasted Nuthatch 24
  45. Bluebottle Fly 27
  46. Woodland Skipper 29
  47. Half-black Bumble Bee 29
  48. Creeping Bellflower 29
  49. Genus Melissodes (Long-horned Bees) 29
  50. Family Orthotrichaceae (Mosses) 30
  51. Genus Condylostylus (Long-legged flies) 31
  52. Orange Sulphur 31
  53. House Finch 31

    54. August 2016

  54. Black-headed Grosbeak 2
  55. Hobo Spider 7
  56. Norther Flicker 8
  57. Chrysopa oculata (Green Lacewings) 12
  58. Confusing Furrow Bee 12
  59. Western Boxelder Bug 13
  60. Common Pill Woodlouse 13
  61. Asian Lady Beetle 13
  62. Common Compost Fly 13
  63. Subgenus Zadontomerus (Small Carpenter Bees) 13
  64. Panicled Willowherb 14
  65. Genus Pemphredon (Aphid Wasps) 14
  66. Ligated Furrow Bee 15
  67. Morrison's Pero Moth 16
  68. Western Yellowjacket 16
  69. Common Wood-Nymph 17
  70. Swainson's Hawk 17
  71. Anthomyia procellaris (Root-maggot Flies) 18
  72. Buathra perplexa (Darwin Wasps) 20
  73. European Paper Wasp 20
  74. Lupine Bug 21
  75. White-banded Potter Wasp 24
  76. Hollyhock Weevil 24
  77. Alaska Yellowjacket 25

    78. September 2016

  78. Common Drone Fly 2
  79. Black-footed Drone Fly 5
  80. Western Aphideater (Hover Flies) 5
  81. Spotted Spreadwing (Damselflies) 5
  82. Red-belted Bumble Bee 5
  83. Common Flesh Flies 5
  84. Genus Stenodynerus (Potter and Mason Wasps) 5
  85. Genus Nabis (Damsel Bugs) 7
  86. Genus Euschistus (Stink Bugs) 7
  87. Peacock Fly 10
  88. Locust Borer 11
  89. Western Lynx Spider 18
  90. Cedar Waxwing 19
  91. Osbornellus borealis (Leafhoppers) 20
  92. German Yellowjacket 21
  93. Calopompilus pyrrhomelas (Spider Wasps) 24
  94. Cluster Flies 24
  95. Genus Archytas (Bristle Flies) 24
  96. Rough Stink Bugs 27
  97. Black-billed Magpie 28
  98. American Crow 28
  99. Genus Villa (Bee Flies) 28
  100. Genus Thecophora (Thick-headed Flies) 28
  101. Genus Gymnosoma (Bristle Flies) 28

    102. October 2016

  102. Seven-spotted Lady Beetle 2
  103. Genus Eumenes (Potter and Mason Wasps) 2
  104. Masked Bees 2
  105. Tribe Pipizini (Hover Flies) 2
  106. Lygus Bugs 2
  107. Rhyparochromus vulgaris (Dirt-colored Seed Bugs) 8
  108. Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp 10
  109. Antheminia eurynota ssp. remota (Stink Bugs) 10
  110. Muscidae (House Flies and Allies) 10
  111. Black Blow Fly 10
  112. Genus Anthocoris (Minute Pirate Bugs) 12
  113. Zebra Jumping Spider 16
  114. Common Dandelion 16
  115. Rocket Larkspur 16
  116. Thin-legged Wolf Spiders 16
  117. Red-legged Grasshopper 16
  118. Lesser Goldfinch 16
  119. Dark-eyed Junco 16
  120. Greenbottle Flies 16

    121. January 2017

  121. Song Sparrow 2
  122. Bohemian Waxwing 10
  123. Varied Thrush 10
  124. Dark-winged Fungus Gnats 10
  125. Golden-crowned Kinglet 12

    126. March 2017

  126. Western Conifer Seed Bug 16

    127. April 2017

  127. Fuzzy-Horned Bumble Bee 21
  128. Great Basin Bumble Bee 21
  129. Eurasian Sweet Violet 21
  130. Variable Duskyface Fly (Hover Flies) 21
  131. Common Chickweed 21
  132. Neoneides muticus (Stilt Bugs) 21
  133. Early Tachinid Fly 21
  134. Common Dung Fly 21
  135. Blue Orchard Bee 21
  136. Metallic Sweat Bees 21
  137. White-cheeked Jumping Spiders 27
  138. Cooper's Hawk 27
  139. White-crowned Sparrow 27
  140. Bewick's Wren 27
  141. Common Digger Bees 28
  142. Genus Spilichneumon (Darwin Wasps) 30

    143. May 2017

  143. Genus Xorides (Darwin Wasps) 1
  144. Two-spotted Lady Beetle 1
  145. Genus Therion (Darwin Wasps) 3
  146. Wood Gnats 3
  147. Arhyssus scutatus (Scentless Plant Bugs) 3
  148. Tribe Pterophorini (Plume Moths) 4
  149. Western Carpenter Ant 4
  150. Winter Stoneflies 6
  151. Black-margined Flower Fly 7
  152. Complex Dasysyrphus intrudens (Hover Flies) 7
  153. Genus Gryllus (Field Crickets) 7
  154. Common Fieldcap (Mushrooms) 7
  155. Three-banded Lady Beeltle 8
  156. Bronze Ground Beetle 9
  157. Goldenrod Crab Spider 9
  158. Common Earthworm 9
  159. Milky slug 9
  160. Amara familiaris (Sun Beetles) 13
  161. Common Shiny Woodlouse 13
  162. Bulbous Meadow Grass 15
  163. Genus Cryptus (Darwin Wasps) 18
  164. White-bowed Smoothwing (Hover Flies) 18
  165. Genus Leucophora (Root-maggot Flies) 18
  166. Genus Xanthorhoe (Carpet Moths) 18
  167. California Darner 19
  168. Gensus Bassaniana (Crab Spiders) 19
  169. Subgenus Tipula (Large Crane Flies) 21
  170. Pavement Ants 22
  171. Carnea-group Green Lacewings 22
  172. Slender Crab Spiders 22
  173. West Coast Lady 23
  174. California Quail 24
  175. Woodlouse Spider 25
  176. Painted Lady 26
  177. Eurasian Running Crab Spider 26

    178. June 2017

  178. Narcissus Bulb Fly 5
  179. Genus Aleochara (Rove Beetles) 5
  180. Bluets (Damselflies) 6
  181. Greater Punctate Sedgesitter (Hover Flies) 7
  182. Nevada Bumble Bee 8
  183. Dame's Rocket 8
  184. Wood Avens 9
  185. Orange-spined Drone Fly 14
  186. Genus Tenthredo (Sawflies) 15
  187. Subgenus Synhalonia 16 (Long-horned Bees)
  188. Common Snakeflies 17
  189. Anaspis atrata (False Flower Beetles) 18
  190. Ground Crab Spiders 18
  191. Blood Bees 21
  192. Sheep's Sorrel 21
  193. Dimorphic Flower Longhorn Beetle 22
  194. Common Carpet Beetle 23
  195. Yellow-faced Bumble Bee 24
  196. Fernald's Cuckoo Bumble Bee 24
  197. Yellow Velvet Beetle 24
  198. Strawberry Crown Moth 29

    199. July 2017

  199. Typical Weevil Wasps 1
  200. Common Aerial Yellowjacket 1
  201. Skunk Moth 1
  202. Woodpecker Flies 3
  203. Varied Carpet Beetle 3
  204. Epicauta punticollis (Burning Blister Beetles) 5
  205. Small-flowered Crane's Bill 5
  206. Western Calligrapher 7
  207. Genus Hedychrum (Cuckoo Wasps) 9
  208. Satyr Comma 13
  209. White-lined Sphinx 17
  210. Sidewalk Mites 17
  211. Sulphur Moth 27

    212. August 2017

  212. Black-chinned Hummingbird 6
  213. Red-shouldered Pine Borer 7
  214. Darker-spotted Straw Moth 8
  215. Two-striped Grasshopper 9
  216. Large Yellow Underwing 30

    217. October 2017

  217. European Mantis 4
  218. Itoplectis conquisitor (Darwin Wasps) 25
  219. Common Sickleleg (Hover Flies) 25
  220. Tribe Voriini (Bristle Flies) 25
  221. Money Spiders 25
  222. Diamondback Moth 26
  223. Genus Tromatobia (Darwin Wasps) 26
  224. Twin-spot Centurion Fly 26
  225. Genus Pimpla (Darwin Wasps) 28
  226. Bruce Spanworm Moth 29

    227. November 2017

  227. Pine Siskin 9

    228. December 2017

  228. Genus Alucita (Many-plumed Moths) 14
  229. Western Encephalitis Mosquito 26

    230. January 2018

  230. Birch Catkin Bug 12

    231. March 2018

  231. Shore Flies 29

    232. April 2018

  232. Turkey Vulture 5
  233. Genus Gonia (Bristle Flies) 11
  234. Xestoleptura crassipes (Flower Longhorn Beetles) 14
  235. Greater Bee Fly 23
  236. Genus Ophion (Darwin Wasps) 27
  237. Townsend's Warbler 28
  238. Family Lithobiidae (Stone Centipedes) 30

    239. May 2018

  239. Shepherd's Purse 2
  240. Genus Orussus (Parasitoid Wood Wasps) 3
  241. Common Stork's Bill 3
  242. Crotch's Nomad Bee 5
  243. Genus Banchus (Darwin Wasps) 5
  244. California Flattened Jumping Spider 6
  245. Genus Rhamphomyia (Dance Flies) 12
  246. Prunus Miner (Mining Bees) 16
  247. Genus Chrysura (Cuckoo Wasps) 15
  248. Genus Sapyga (Club-horned Wasps) 20
  249. Western Wood Fly
  250. Subgenus Melanosmia (Mason Bees) 22
  251. Prairie Yellowjacket 22
  252. Cutworm Wasps 23
  253. Small Milkweed Bug 23
  254. Nearctic Bumble Bee 24
  255. Western Eyed Click Beetle 25
  256. Genus Panurginus (Mining Bees) 27
  257. Subgenus Trachandrena (Mining Bees) 27
  258. Subgenus Melecta (Mourning Bees) 27
  259. Common Whitetail (Dragonflies) 28
  260. Brymblia quadrimaculella (Concealer Moths) 31

    261. June 2018

  261. Black-and-gray Leafcutter Bee 1
  262. Western Treehole Mosquito 6
  263. Orchard Grass 7
  264. Subgenus Gyponana (Typical Leafhoppers) 12
  265. Genus Gasteruption (Carot Wasps) 15
  266. Perithous scurra (Darwin Wasps) 17
  267. Genus Pristaulacus (Aulacid Wasps) 19
  268. Phymatodes dimidiatus (Longhorn Beetles) 19
  269. Genus Parancistrocerus (Potter and Mason Wasps) 21
  270. Whip Cicadas 22
  271. Vivid Dancer (Damselflies) 22
  272. Blue-eyed Darner (Dragonflies) 23
  273. Dog Ticks 28
  274. Genus Brachymeria (Chalcidid Wasps) 30

    275. July 2018

  275. Euodynerus foraminatus-complex (Potter and Mason Wasps) 1
  276. Subgenus Hypericia (Leaf Beetles) 2
  277. Common St. John's Wort 2
  278. Four-spotted Moth 3
  279. Rose Aphid 3
  280. Two-tailed Tiger Swallowtail 4
  281. Genus Lestica (Square-headed Wasps) 5
  282. Genus Hartigia (Stem Sawflies) 6
  283. Genus Neurocolpus (Plant Bugs) 7
  284. Lorquin's Angle 9
  285. Fruit-tree Leafroller Moth 9
  286. White-shouldered Bumble Bee 11
  287. Common Ringlet 11
  288. Los Angeles Resin Bee 14
  289. Pugnacious Leafcutter Bee 14
  290. Subgenus Neotrypetes (Armored Resin Bees) 14
  291. Subgenus Trypargilum (Sqaure-headed Wasps) 14
  292. Alfalfa Leafcutter Bee 15
  293. White-fronted Small-Mason 15
  294. Tribe Psenini (Aphid Wasps) 15
  295. Leucospis affinis (Leucospidae) 15
  296. Gray Lawn Leafhopper 15
  297. Brown-belted Bumble Bee 24
  298. Subgenus Cyrtocoelioxys (Cuckoo Leaf-cutter Bees) 25
  299. Krombeinopyga pumila (Club-horned Wasps) 28
  300. Genus Monodontomerus (Torymidae) 28
  301. Juniper-hawthorn Rust 28
  302. Orange-legged Furrow Bee 29

    303. August 2018

  303. Sand-loving Wasps 13
  304. Hump-backed Beewolf 15
  305. Genus Thyanta (Sink Bugs) 18

    306. September 2018

  306. Peleteria iterans (Bristle Flies) 1
  307. Striped Meadowhawk (Dragonflies) 4
  308. Thread-waisted Wasps 13
  309. Elegant grass-carrying Wasp 13
  310. Ectimnius cephalotes (Square-headed Wasps) 14
  311. Ectemnius ruficornis (Square-headed Wasps) 14
  312. Subfamily Braconinae (Braconid Wasps) 14
  313. Iphthiminus serratus (Darling Beetles) 14
  314. Geneus Passaloecus (Aphid Wasps) 15
  315. Ant-mimic Sac Spiders 17

    316. March 2019

  316. Genus Sergiolus (Ground Spiders) 16
  317. Genus Lacon (Click Beetles) 16
  318. Tangleweb Spiders 26

    319. April 2019

  319. European Drone Fly 8
  320. Grey-cushioned Grimmia (Rock Mosses) 14
  321. Subfamily Campopleginae (Darwin Wasps) 17
  322. Genus Epermenia (Fringe-tufted Moths) 18
  323. Triangulate Combfoot (False Widow Spiders) 23
  324. Echo Azure 24

    325. July 2019

  325. Western Cherry Fruit Fly 14
  326. Blackjacket 14

    327. September 2019

  327. Subgenus Dianthidium (Megachilidae) 3
  328. Garden Webworm Moth 7

    329. October 2019

  329. Halfbands (Hover Flies) 7
  330. Rain Beelte 15
  331. Pine Trogossitid Beetle 15
  332. Shield Lichen 22
  333. Genus Geils (Darwin Wasps) 25
  334. Western Polished Lady Beetle 25

    335. April 2020

  335. Xerophloea pelltata (Flat-headed Leafhoppers) 6
  336. Genus Ypsolopha (Ermine Moths and Allies) 17
  337. Cat-faced Orbweaver 17
  338. Subgenus Melandrena (Mining Bees) 21
  339. Henbit Deadnettle 24
  340. Poison Hemlock Moth 26
  341. Hackberry Gall Psyllids 26
  342. Smooth Carpenter Ant 29

    343. May 2020

  343. Subgenus Melanthaxia (Metallic Wood-boring Beetles) 2
  344. Subtribe Quediina (Rove Beetles) 4
  345. European Starling 4
  346. Large-tailed Aphideater (Hover Flies) 7
  347. Cosmopepla intergressa (Stink Bugs) 9
  348. Subfamily Metopiinae (Darwin Wasps) 10
  349. Callibaetis ferrugineus ssp. hageni (Mayflies: Speckled Duns) 16
  350. Agrocybe acericola (Mushrooms) 22
  351. Genus Bibio (March Flies) 23
  352. Subfamily Chloropinae (Grass Flies) 23
  353. Bold Jumping Spider 23
  354. Tribe Bardini (Flower Weevils) 24
  355. Crabro latipes (Square-headed Wasps) 27
  356. Forked Globetail (Hover Flies) 28
  357. Cosmopepla uhleri (Stink Bugs) 28
  358. Corn Speedwell 28
  359. Chipping Sparrow 29
  360. Rufa-group Field Ants 30

    361. June 2020

  361. Juba Skipper 1
  362. Bicolored Striped Sweat Bee 2
  363. Indiscriminate Cuckoo Bee 3
  364. Topiary Grass-Veneer (Crambid Snout Moths) 10
  365. Neoclytus muricatulus (Typical Longhorn Beetles) 11
  366. Eulonchus tristis (Small-headed Flies) 11
  367. Genus Symmorphus (Potter and Mason Wasps) 18
  368. Black Medic (Legumes) 19
  369. Spotted Asparagus Beetle 22
  370. Prostrate Knotweed 27

    371. July 2020

  371. Tufted Globetail (Hover Flies) 4
  372. Pseudomalus auratus (Cuckoo Wasps) 8
  373. Common Checkered Skipper 16
  374. Molorchus longicollis (Typical Longhorn Beetles) 18

    375. August 2020

  375. Genus Harmostes (Scentless Plant Bugs) 5
  376. Urbane Digger Bee 21
  377. Western Sculptured Pine Borer 25

    378. September 2020

  378. Subtribe Philonthina (Rove Beetles) 4
  379. Genus Prionix(Thread-waisted Wasps) 6
  380. Purplish Copper 6
  381. Genus Cylindromyia (Bristle Flies) 6
  382. Apple Leaf Skeletonizer Moth 17
  383. Meal Moth 19
  384. Meadow Spittlebug 21
  385. Armyworm Moth 25
  386. Genus Physiphora (Picture-winged Flies) 27
  387. Privet Leafhopper 27
  388. Scentless Mayweed 29
  389. Prociphilus americanus (Aphids) 30

    390. October 2020

  390. Brown Marmorated Stink Bug 12
  391. Genus Banasa (Stink Bugs) 12
  392. Subgenus Chlorochroa (Stink Bugs) 12

    393. November 2020

  393. Tissue Moth 17

    394. January 2021

  394. Cassin's Finch 28

    395. March 2021

  395. Subfamily Diamesinae (Non-biting Midges) 2
  396. Red-winged Blackbird 2
  397. Orchesella villosa (Slender Springtails) 20
  398. Family Blaniulidae (Snake Millipedes) 20
  399. Genus Phanias (Jumping Spiders) 27
  400. Cave Centipedes 28

    401. April 2021

  401. Red-tailed Hawk 1
  402. Genus Eurygaster (Jewel Bugs) 1
  403. Deathwatch, Spider, and Wood-borer Beetles 2
  404. Picnic Beetle 3
  405. Black Scavenger Fly 16 (Sepsidae)