List of LQA first observations
- Yellow Douglas Fir Borer - July 6
- Bald-faced hornet - July 6
- Western Tiger Swallowtail - July 7
- Genus Chironomus - July 7
- American Goldfinch - July 7
- House Sparrow - July 7
- American Robin - July 7
- Eurasian Collared-Dove - July 7
- Leopard Slug - July 8
- Common Tree Crickets - July 8
- Fox Squirrel - July 9
- Dwarf Mallow - July 9
- Nipplewort - July 9
- California Poppy - July 9
- Prickly Sowthistle - July 9
- Alfalfa Looper - July 9
- Calliope Hummingbird - July 13
- Mylitta Crescent - July 16
- Western Honey Bee - July 16
- Field and Button Mushroom - July 18
- Gray Hairstreak - July 18
- White Clover - July 18
- Feverfew - July 18
- Spine-waisted Ants - July 19
- Cabbage White - July 19
- Formica neoclara (Wood, Mound, and Field Ants) - July 19
- Megaloceroea recticornis (Long Thin Plant Bug) - July 19
- Western Terrestrial Garter Snake - July 20
- Yellow Salsify - July 21
- Sierran Tree Frog - July 21
- European Wool Carder Bee - July 21
- Genus Triepeolus (Cuckoo Bees) - July 21
- Mourning Dove - July 21
- Prickly Lettuce - July 21
- Cottontail Rabbits - July 21
- European Harvestman - July 22
- Convergent Lady Beetle - July 22
- European Earwig - July 22
- Hunt's Bumble Bee - July 22
- Downy Woodpecker - July 24
- Striped Skunk - July 24
- Ring-necked Pheasant - July 24
- Carolina Grasshopper - July 24
- Black-capped Chickadee - July 24
- Red-breasted Nuthatch - July 24
- Bluebottle Fly - July 27
- Western Bumble Bee (Bombus occidentalis) - July 29
- Woodland Skipper - July 29
- Half-black Bumble Bee - July 29
- Creeping Bellflower - July 29
- Genus Melissodes (Long-horned Bees) - July 29
- Family Orthotrichaceae (Mosses) - July 30
- Genus Condylostylus (Long-legged flies) - July 31
- Orange Sulphur - July 31
- House Finch - July 31
- Black-headed Grosbeak - August 2
- Hobo Spider - August 7
- Norther Flicker - August 8
- Chrysopa oculata (Green Lacewings) - August 12
- Confusing Furrow Bee - August 12
- Western Boxelder Bug - August 3
- Common Pill Woodlouse - August 13
- Asian Lady Beetle - August 13
- Common Compost Fly - August 13
- Subgenus Zadontomerus (Small Carpenter Bees) - August 13
- Panicled Willowherb - August 14
- Genus Pemphredon (Aphid Wasps) - August 14
- Ligated Furrow Bee - August 15
- Morrison's Pero Moth - August 16
- Western Yellowjacket - August 16
- Common Wood-Nymph - August 17
- Swainson's Hawk - August 17
- Anthomyia procellaris (Root-maggot Flies) - August 18
- Buathra perplexa (Darwin Wasps) - August 20
- European Paper Wasp - August 20
- Lupine Bug - August 21
- White-banded Potter Wasp - August 24
- Hollyhock Weevil - August 24
- Alaska Yellowjacket - August 25
- Common Drone Fly - September 2
- Black-footed Drone Fly - September 5
- Western Aphideater (Hover Flies) - September 5
- Spotted Spreadwing (Damselflies) - September 5
- Red-belted Bumble Bee - September 5
- Common Flesh Flies - September 5
- Genus Stenodynerus (Potter and Mason Wasps) - September 5
- Genus Macaphesa - September 5
- Genus Nabis (Damsel Bugs) - September 7
- Genus Euschistus (Stink Bugs) - September 7
- Peacock Fly - September 10
- Locust Borer - September 11
- Western Lynx Spider - September 18
- Cedar Waxwing - September 19
- Osbornellus borealis (Leafhoppers) - September 20
- German Yellowjacket - September 21
- Calopompilus pyrrhomelas (Spider Wasps) - September 24
- Genus Archytas (Bristle Flies) - September 24
- Rough Stink Bugs - September 27
- Masked Bees - September 28
- Black-billed Magpie - September 28
- American Crow - September 28
- Genus Villa (Bee Flies) - September 28
- Genus Thecophora (Thick-headed Flies) - September 28
- Genus Gymnosoma (Bristle Flies) - September 28
- Seven-spotted Lady Beetle - October 2
- Genus Eumenes (Potter and Mason Wasps) - October 2
- Tribe Pipizini (Hover Flies) - October 2
- Lygus Bugs - October 2
- Rhyparochromus vulgaris (Dirt-colored Seed Bugs) - October 8
- Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp - October 10
- Antheminia eurynota ssp. remota (Stink Bugs) - October 10
- Black Blow Fly - October 10
- Genus Anthocoris (Minute Pirate Bugs) - October 12
- Zebra Jumping Spider - October 16
- Common Dandelion - October 16
- Rocket Larkspur 16 - October
- Thin-legged Wolf Spiders - October 16
- Red-legged Grasshopper - October 16
- Lesser Goldfinch - October 16
- Dark-eyed Junco - October 16
- Greenbottle Flies - October 16
- Song Sparrow - January 2
- Bohemian Waxwing - January 10
- Varied Thrush - January 10
- Dark-winged Fungus Gnats - January 10
- Golden-crowned Kinglet - January 12
- Western Conifer Seed Bug - March 16
- Fuzzy-Horned Bumble Bee - April 21
- Great Basin Bumble Bee - April21
- Eurasian Sweet Violet - April21
- Variable Duskyface Fly (Hover Flies) - April21
- Common Chickweed - April21
- Neoneides muticus (Stilt Bugs) - April21
- Early Tachinid Fly - April21
- Common Dung Fly - April 21
- Blue Orchard Bee - April 21
- Metallic Sweat Bees - April 21
- Cooper's Hawk - April 27
- White-crowned Sparrow - April 27
- Bewick's Wren - April 27
- Genus Spilichneumon (Darwin Wasps) - April 30
- Two-spotted Lady Beetle - May 1
- Genus Therion (Darwin Wasps) - May 3
- Wood Gnats - May 3
- Arhyssus scutatus (Scentless Plant Bugs) - May 3
- Tribe Pterophorini (Plume Moths) - May 4
- Western Carpenter Ant - May 4
- Winter Stoneflies - May 6
- Black-margined Flower Fly - May 7
- Complex Dasysyrphus intrudens (Hover Flies) - May 7
- Genus Gryllus (Field Crickets) - May 7
- Common Fieldcap (Mushrooms) - May 7
- Three-banded Lady Beeltle - May 8
- Bronze Ground Beetle - May 9
- Goldenrod Crab Spider - May 9
- Common Earthworm - May 9
- Milky slug - May 9
- Amara familiaris (Sun Beetles) - May 13
- Common Shiny Woodlouse - May 13
- Bulbous Meadow Grass - May 15
- Genus Cryptus (Darwin Wasps) - May 18
- White-bowed Smoothwing (Hover Flies) - May 18
- Genus Leucophora (Root-maggot Flies) - May 18
- Genus Xanthorhoe (Carpet Moths) - May 18
- California Darner - May 19
- Gensus Bassaniana (Crab Spiders) - May 19
- Subgenus Tipula (Large Crane Flies) - May 21
- Carnea-group Green Lacewings - May 22
- Slender Crab Spiders - May 22
- West Coast Lady - May 23
- Cutworm Wasps - May 23
- California Quail - May 24
- Woodlouse Spider - May 25
- Painted Lady - May 26
- Eurasian Running Crab Spider - May 26
- Narcissus Bulb Fly - June 5
- Genus Aleochara (Rove Beetles) - June 5
- Greater Punctate Sedgesitter (Hover Flies) - June 7
- Nevada Bumble Bee - June 8
- Dame's Rocket - June 8
- Wood Avens - June 9
- Genus Tenthredo (Sawflies) - June 15
- Subgenus Synhalonia (Long-horned Bees) - June 16
- Common Snakeflies - June 17
- Anaspis atrata (False Flower Beetles) - June 18
- Ground Crab Spiders - June 18
- Blood Bees - June 21
- Sheep's Sorrel - June 21
- Dimorphic Flower Longhorn Beetle - June 22
- Common Carpet Beetle - June 23
- Yellow-faced Bumble Bee - June 24
- Fernald's Cuckoo Bumble Bee - June 24
- Yellow Velvet Beetle - June 24
- Strawberry Crown Moth - June 29
- Typical Weevil Wasps - July 1
- Common Aerial Yellowjacket - July 1
- Skunk Moth - July 1
- Woodpecker Flies - July 3
- Varied Carpet Beetle - July 3
- Epicauta punticollis (Burning Blister Beetles) - July 5
- Small-flowered Crane's Bill - July 5
- Western Calligrapher - July 7
- Genus Hedychrum (Cuckoo Wasps) - July 9
- Satyr Comma - July 13
- White-lined Sphinx - July 17
- Sidewalk Mites - July 17
- Sulphur Moth - July 27
- Black-chinned Hummingbird - August 6
- Red-shouldered Pine Borer - August 7
- Darker-spotted Straw Moth - August 8
- Two-striped Grasshopper - August 9
- Large Yellow Underwing - August 30
- European Mantis - October 4
- Itoplectis conquisitor (Darwin Wasps) - October 25
- Common Sickleleg (Hover Flies) - October 25
- Tribe Voriini (Bristle Flies) - October 25
- Money Spiders - October 25
- Diamondback Moth - October 26
- Genus Tromatobia (Darwin Wasps) - October 26
- Twin-spot Centurion Fly - October 26
- Genus Pimpla (Darwin Wasps) - October 28
- Bruce Spanworm Moth - October 29
- Pine Siskin - November 9
- Genus Alucita (Many-plumed Moths) - December 14
- Western Encephalitis Mosquito - December 26
- Birch Catkin Bug - January 12
- Shore Flies - March 29
- Turkey Vulture - April 5
- Genus Gonia (Bristle Flies) - April 11
- Xestoleptura crassipes (Flower Longhorn Beetles) - April 14
- Greater Bee Fly - April 23
- Genus Ophion (Darwin Wasps) - April 27
- Townsend's Warbler - April 28
- Family Lithobiidae (Stone Centipedes) - April 30
- Shepherd's Purse - May 2
- Genus Orussus (Parasitoid Wood Wasps) - May 3
- Common Stork's Bill - May 3
- Crotch's Nomad Bee - May 5
- Genus Banchus (Darwin Wasps) - May 5
- California Flattened Jumping Spider - May 6
- Genus Rhamphomyia (Dance Flies) - May 12
- Prunus Miner (Mining Bees) - May 16
- Genus Chrysura (Cuckoo Wasps) - May 15
- Genus Sapyga (Club-horned Wasps) - May 20
- Western Wood Fly - May 20
- Polochrum sp. - May 22
- Subgenus Melanosmia (Mason Bees) - May 22
- Prairie Yellowjacket - May 22
- Small Milkweed Bug - May 23
- Nearctic Bumble Bee - May 24
- Western Eyed Click Beetle - May 25
- Genus Panurginus (Mining Bees) - May 27
- Subgenus Trachandrena (Mining Bees) - May 27
- Subgenus Melecta (Mourning Bees) - May 27
- Common Whitetail (Dragonflies) - May 28
- Brymblia quadrimaculella (Concealer Moths) - May 31
- Black-and-gray Leafcutter Bee - June 1
- Western Treehole Mosquito - June 6
- Xorides californicus - June 6
- Orchard Grass - June 7
- Subgenus Gyponana (Typical Leafhoppers) - June 12
- Genus Gasteruption (Carot Wasps) - June 15
- Perithous scurra (Darwin Wasps) - June 17
- Genus Pristaulacus (Aulacid Wasps) - June 19
- Phymatodes dimidiatus (Longhorn Beetles) - June 19
- Genus Parancistrocerus (Potter and Mason Wasps) - June 21
- Genus Hemipenthes - June 21
- Whip Cicadas - June 22
- Vivid Dancer (Damselflies) - June 22
- Blue-eyed Darner (Dragonflies) - June 23
- Dog Ticks - June 28
- Genus Brachymeria (Chalcidid Wasps) - June 30
- Wooly Bee Flies -June 30
- Euodynerus foraminatus-complex (Potter and Mason Wasps) - July 1
- Subgenus Hypericia (Leaf Beetles) - July 2
- Common St. John's Wort - July 2
- Four-spotted Moth - July 3
- Rose Aphid - July 3
- Two-tailed Tiger Swallowtail - July 4
- Genus Lestica (Square-headed Wasps) - July 5
- Genus Phylloecus (Stem Sawflies) - July 6
- Genus Neurocolpus (Plant Bugs) - July 7
- Lorquin's Angle - July 9
- Fruit-tree Leafroller Moth - July 9
- White-shouldered Bumble Bee - July 11
- Common Ringlet - July 11
- Chrysis sp. - July 14
- Megachile angelarum - July 14
- Los Angeles Resin Bee - July 14
- Pugnacious Leafcutter Bee - July 14
- Subgenus Neotrypetes (Armored Resin Bees) - July 14
- Subgenus Trypargilum (Sqaure-headed Wasps) - July 14
- Alfalfa Leafcutter Bee - July 15
- White-fronted Small-Mason - July 15
- Tribe Psenini (Aphid Wasps) - July 15
- Leucospis affinis (Leucospidae) - July 15
- Gray Lawn Leafhopper - July 15
- Brown-belted Bumble Bee - July 24
- Subgenus Cyrtocoelioxys (Cuckoo Leaf-cutter Bees) - July 25
- Krombeinopyga pumila (Club-horned Wasps) - July 28
- Genus Monodontomerus (Torymidae) - July 28
- Juniper-hawthorn Rust - July 28
- Orange-legged Furrow Bee - July 29
- Sand-loving Wasps - August 13
- Hump-backed Beewolf - August 15
- Genus Thyanta (Sink Bugs) - August 18
- Peleteria iterans (Bristle Flies) - September 1
- Striped Meadowhawk (Dragonflies) - September 4
- Thread-waisted Sand Wasps (Ammophila sp.) - September 13
- Elegant grass-carrying Wasp - September 13
- Ectemnius cephalotes (Square-headed Wasps) - September 14
- Ectemnius ruficornis (Square-headed Wasps) - September 14
- Subfamily Braconinae (Braconid Wasps) - September 14
- Iphthiminus serratus (Darling Beetles) - September 14
- Geneus Passaloecus (Aphid Wasps) - September 15
- Ant-mimic Sac Spiders - September 17
- Genus Sergiolus (Ground Spiders) - March 16
- Tangleweb Spiders - March 26
- European Drone Fly - April 8
- Grey-cushioned Grimmia (Rock Mosses) - April 14
- Subfamily Campopleginae (Darwin Wasps) - April 17
- Genus Epermenia (Fringe-tufted Moths) - April 18
- Triangulate Combfoot (False Widow Spiders) - April 23
- Echo Azure - April 24
- Western Cherry Fruit Fly - July 14
- Blackjacket - July 14
- Subgenus Dianthidium (Megachilidae) - September 3
- Garden Webworm Moth - September 7
- Halfbands (Hover Flies) - October 7
- Rain Beelte - October 15
- Pine Trogossitid Beetle - October 15
- Shield Lichen - October 22
- Genus Gelis (Darwin Wasps) - October 25
- Western Polished Lady Beetle - October 25
- Xerophloea pelltata (Flat-headed Leafhoppers) - April 6
- Genus Ypsolopha (Ermine Moths and Allies) - April 17
- Cat-faced Orbweaver - April 17
- Subgenus Melandrena (Mining Bees) - April 21
- Henbit Deadnettle - April 24
- Poison Hemlock Moth - April 26
- Hackberry Gall Psyllids - April 26
- Subgenus Melanthaxia (Metallic Wood-boring Beetles) - May 2
- Subtribe Quediina (Rove Beetles) - May 4
- European Starling - May 4
- Large-tailed Aphideater (Hover Flies) - May 7
- Cosmopepla intergressa (Stink Bugs) - May 9
- Subfamily Metopiinae (Darwin Wasps) - May 10
- Callibaetis ferrugineus ssp. hageni (Mayflies: Speckled Duns) - May 16
- Agrocybe acericola (Mushrooms) - May 22
- Genus Bibio (March Flies) - May 23
- Subfamily Chloropinae (Grass Flies) - May 23
- Bold Jumping Spider - May 23
- Tribe Bardini (Flower Weevils) - May 24
- Crabro latipes (Square-headed Wasps) - May 27
- Forked Globetail (Hover Flies) - May 28
- Cosmopepla uhleri (Stink Bugs) - May 28
- Corn Speedwell - May 28
- Chipping Sparrow - May 29
- Western Thatching Ant - May 30
- Juba Skipper - June 1
- Bicolored Striped Sweat Bee - June 2
- Perizoma costiguttata (Carpet Moths) - June 2
- Indiscriminate Cuckoo Bee - June 3
- Topiary Grass-Veneer (Crambid Snout Moths) - June 10
- Neoclytus muricatulus (Typical Longhorn Beetles) - June 11
- Eulonchus tristis (Small-headed Flies) - June 11
- Genus Symmorphus (Potter and Mason Wasps) - June 18
- Black Medic (Legumes) - June 19
- Spotted Asparagus Beetle - June 22
- Prostrate Knotweed - June 27
- Tufted Globetail (Hover Flies) - July 4
- Pseudomalus auratus (Cuckoo Wasps) - July 8
- Common Checkered Skipper - July 16
- Molorchus longicollis (Typical Longhorn Beetles) - July 18
- Genus Harmostes (Scentless Plant Bugs) - August 5
- Urbane Digger Bee (Anthophora urbana) - August 21
- Western Sculptured Pine Borer - August 25
- Subtribe Philonthina (Rove Beetles) - September 4
- Genus Prionix (Thread-waisted Wasps) - September 6
- Purplish Copper - September 6
- Genus Cylindromyia (Bristle Flies) - September 6
- Apple Leaf Skeletonizer Moth - September 17
- Meal Moth - September 19
- Meadow Spittlebug - September 21
- Armyworm Moth - September 25
- Physiphora alceae (Picture-winged Flies) - September 27
- Privet Leafhopper - September 27
- Scentless Mayweed - September 29
- Prociphilus americanus (Aphids) - September 30
- Pollenia vagabunda - October 6
- Brown Marmorated Stink Bug - October 12
- Genus Banasa (Stink Bugs) - October 12
- Subgenus Chlorochroa (Stink Bugs) - October 12
- Tissue Moth - November 17
- Cassin's Finch - January 28
- Scale inescts (Superfamily Coccoidea) - February 1
- Subfamily Diamesinae (Non-biting Midges) - March 2
- Red-winged Blackbird - March 2
- Orchesella villosa (Slender Springtails) - March 20
- Family Blaniulidae (Snake Millipedes) - March 20
- Western Collared Ant (Aphaenogaster occidentalis) - March 21
- Genus Phanias (Jumping Spiders) - March 27
- Cave Centipedes - March 28
- Red-tailed Hawk - April 1
- Genus Eurygaster (Jewel Bugs) - April 1
- Tribe Hadrobregmini (Ptinidae - Deathwatch Beetles) - April 2
- Picnic Beetle - April 3
- Black Scavenger Fly - April 16 (Sepsidae)
- Lacon rorulentus (Click Beetles) - April 23
- Subfamily Tomocerinae (Springtails) - April 26
- Scatopsidae (Black Minute Scavenger Flies) - April 26
- Listrus sp. (Soft-winged flower beetle) - April 28
- Tribe Alticini (Metallic flea beetles) - April 28
- Coppered White-cheeked Jumping Spider - May 1
- Osmia montana - May 13
- Ampedus sp. - May 15
- Mallota sackeni (Brown-haltered Mimic Fly) - May 17
- Platypezidae (Flat-footed Flies) - May 22
- Doratura stylata - June 8
- Bruchus pisorum - July 1
- Mourning Cloak - August 14
- California Tortoiseshell - September 23
- Nematodes - October 28
- Haematococcus sp. (Green Algae) - November 5
- Bdelloidean Rotifers - November 8
- Ramazzottius sp. (Tardigrade) - December 8
- Merlin December 16
2022
- Common Raven February 25
- Fungus Gnats March 2.
- Common Bird's Nest Fungus March 13.
- Mompha sp. March 14
- Tetramorium immigrans (Immigrant Pavement Ant) March 18
- Reduvius personatus (Masked Bed-bug Hunter) March 18
- Priocnemis sp. (Spider Wasp) March 24
- Dahlica sp. (Bagworm Moths) March 24
- Ceratagallia sp. - March 24.
- Bitoma crenata (A clylindrical bark beetle) March 29
- Eoclerus eximius (A Checkered beetle) April 8
- Orsodacne atra (A ravenous leaf beetle - Orsodacnidae) April 24
- Anthophora pacifica (Pacific Digger Bee) April 24
- Polyxenus lagurus (Bristly Millipede) April 27
- Sitona lineatus (Pea Weevil) May 4
- Glischrochilus quadrisignatus (Four-spotted Sap Beetle) May 4
- Aphis sp. - May 24
- Eumerus sp. - May 24
- Araniella displicata (Six-spotted Orbweaver) - May 26
- Megalonotus sabulicola (Introduced Dirt-colored Seed Bug) - May 26
- Epistrophe xanthostoma (Emarginate Smoothtail) - May 26
- Empis sp. - May 26
- Magdalis sp. (A True Weevil) - June 5
- Lycogala epidendrum (Wolf's Milk) - June 9
- Bromus diandrus (Ripgut Brome) - June 22
- Bromus tectorum (Cheat Grass) - June 23
- Pemphredon inornata - July 4
- Papilio eurymedon (Pale Swallowtail) - July 6
- Eudioctria sackeni (A robber fly) - July 9
- Ceruchus punctatus (a stag beetle) - July 11
- Agrilus cuprescens (Rose Stem Girder) - July 15
- Pseudotephritis sp. - July 19
- Buprestis langii - July 20
- Leptomantispa pulchella (A Mantidfly) - July 21
- Toxomerus marginatus (Margined Calligrapher) - July 24
- Ichneumon cupitus (A Darwin Wasp) - July 23
- Upis ceramboides (Roughened Darkling Beetle) - August 1
- Eris militaris (Bronze Jumpimg Spider) - August 8
- Polystoechotes punctata (a giant lacewing) - August 21
- Asemum nitidum (A Longhorn Beetle - Cerambycidae) - August 21
- Melanophila sp. (A Buprestid Beetle) - August 24
- Erythroneura ziczac (Virginia Creeper Leafhopper) - August 24
- Thysanoptera (Thrips) - August 28
- Xestia c-nigrum (Lesser Black-letter Dart) - August 29
- Vanessa atalanta (Red Admiral) - August 29
- Tricoptera (Caddisflies) - August 29
- Vorticellidae - August 31
- Subclass Hypotrychia - August 31
- Epithemia sp. (A diatom) - September 9
- Corimelaena sp. (An Emory Bug) - September 20
- Eristalis flavipes (Orange-legged Drone Fly) - September 22
- Psocodea (Barklice, Booklice, and Parasitic Lice) - October 16
- Bisnius sp. - October 16
2023
- Accipiter striatus (Sharp-shinned Hawk) - January 1