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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. Genus Archytas (Bristle Flies) 24
  95. Rough Stink Bugs 27
  96. Black-billed Magpie 28
  97. American Crow 28
  98. Genus Villa (Bee Flies) 28
  99. Genus Thecophora (Thick-headed Flies) 28
  100. Genus Gymnosoma (Bristle Flies) 28

    101. October 2016

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

    120. January 2017

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

    125. March 2017

  125. Western Conifer Seed Bug 16

    126. April 2017

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

    141. May 2017

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

    176. June 2017

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

    197. July 2017

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

    210. August 2017

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

    215. October 2017

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

    225. November 2017

  225. Pine Siskin 9

    226. December 2017

  226. Genus Alucita (Many-plumed Moths) 14
  227. Western Encephalitis Mosquito 26

    228. January 2018

  228. Birch Catkin Bug 12

    229. March 2018

  229. Shore Flies 29

    230. April 2018

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

    237. May 2018

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

    259. June 2018

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

    273. July 2018

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

    301. August 2018

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

    304. September 2018

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

    314. March 2019

  314. Genus Sergiolus (Ground Spiders) 16
  315. Tangleweb Spiders 26

    316. April 2019

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

    322. July 2019

  322. Western Cherry Fruit Fly 14
  323. Blackjacket 14

    324. September 2019

  324. Subgenus Dianthidium (Megachilidae) 3
  325. Garden Webworm Moth 7

    326. October 2019

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

    332. April 2020

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

    340. May 2020

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

    358. June 2020

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

    368. July 2020

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

    372. August 2020

  372. Genus Harmostes (Scentless Plant Bugs) 5
  373. Urbane Digger Bee 21
  374. Western Sculptured Pine Borer 25

    375. September 2020

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

    387. October 2020

  387. Pollenia vagabunda 6
  388. Brown Marmorated Stink Bug 12
  389. Genus Banasa (Stink Bugs) 12
  390. Subgenus Chlorochroa (Stink Bugs) 12

    391. November 2020

  391. Tissue Moth 17

    392. January 2021

  392. Cassin's Finch 28

    393. March 2021

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

    399. April 2021

  399. Red-tailed Hawk 1
  400. Genus Eurygaster (Jewel Bugs) 1
  401. Tribe Hadrobregmini (Ptinidae - Deathwatch Beetles) 2
  402. Picnic Beetle 3
  403. Black Scavenger Fly 16 (Sepsidae)
  404. Lacon rorulentus (Click Beetles) 23
  405. Subfamily Tomocerinae (Springtails) 26
  406. Scatopsidae (Black Minute Scavenger Flies) 26
  407. Listrus sp. (Soft-winged flower beetle) 28
  408. Tribe Alticini (Metallic flea beetles) 28

    409. May 2021

  409. Coppered White-cheeked Jumping Spider 1
  410. Ampedus sp. 15
  411. Mallota sackeni (Brown-haltered Mimic Fly) 17
  412. Platypezidae (Flat-footed Flies) 22

    413. June 2021

  413. Chrysis sp. 5