This is above 10,000’ about 3.5 miles from Mather Overlook on Wheeler Rd. Observed several of these butterflies mud puddling on the recently repaved road. I know it’s a Fritillary but not sure which species. I am very curious to know which species!
Very interesting beetle. I have no clue what this is.
No more than a centimeter in length
Photographed while still alive and kicking! Moments after pumping it up from the groundwater via the Bou-Rouch pump method
on a high limestone cliff
These were found in Aubrey Valley in area of fine grained reddish soil with small yucca type vegetation. Not certain that boreus is the correct species here.
The identity of this population is tentative given that Tonestus or Haplopappus alpinus or Toiyabea alpina is supposedly known from only the Toiyabe and Toquima Ranges of central Nevada. The alpine to subalpine habitat and glandular herbage with toothed leaf margins fit the circumscription of Haplopappus alpinus. At this particular site, Haplopappus alpinus can have a mat-forming growth habit. This site lies along the saddle between Cougar and Prospect Peaks, Jarbidge Mountains, Elko County, Nevada.
These were found in Aubrey Valley in area of fine grained reddish soil with small yucca type vegetation. Not certain that boreus is the correct species here.
Narrowed it down to either Northern Scorpion or Eastern Sand Scorpion
Found in sandy soil under a rock. Had made a silken cacoon that was mixed with sand. Mature male by the pedipalps.
Not your average xylorhiza here. Growing on gypsum, very sticky and glandular, leaves have a distinctive smell and leave a sticky fragrance on the fingers
On gypsum. Unusual leaves, smell, and overall look.
Fuzz and bright coloring on recently flood washed rock
Albino Hadrurus arizonensis, the first record of an albino of this species (as far as I know) and one of very few albino scorpion records ever.
In this region. H. arizonensis are exclusively the normal (not pallidus) morph (last slide). Note the red eyes in this individual, also indicating albinism.
With @coreyjlange.
These were found in Aubrey Valley in area of fine grained reddish soil with small yucca type vegetation. Not certain that boreus is the correct species here.
At head of spring above Metolius River
10000 feet in spring mountains
this observation is for the little snail in the photos.
The beetle is posted here - https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/39198289
Hat Creek. One of the smaller individuals.
Hat Creek
Interesting looking freshwater snail
Smoke Creek. Similar location as previous posting, just a larger individual
Found along I‐15 ROW in disturbed area.
pygmy poreleaf, Porophyllum pygmaeum, Nevada, Clark County, Desert National Wildlife Range, Sheep Range watershed, elevation 1355 m (4445 ft).
These are some poor, rushed film photos of plants gathered for the type collection of this species. I first noticed this unnamed species tucked away on an herbarium sheet at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, soon after arriving there as a graduate student. Fellow student Aaron Liston (@aaronliston), Garden employee Sara Meury, and I made a first unsuccessful attempt to relocate the species in the general area noted on the specimen in May 1987.
Visiting taxonomist Fritz Ehrendorfer and I made a second long trip for another attempt in early June. As seems to happen too often when so focused, we spent the whole day searching fruitlessly, until just before sunset and still 5 hours from home, when we finally located this large population. Thus the poor and rushed photos, restored as best I could from high resolution scans.
The species is still only known from the west base and slopes of the Sheep Range on the Desert National Wildlife Range in Clark County, Nevada.
Collection: Morefield 4511 & Ehrendorfer
Publication: Keil, D.J. & J.D. Morefield. 1989. Porophyllum pygmaeum (Asteraceae), a distinctive new species from southern Nevada. Systematic Botany 14: 583-588.
Least chipmunk?
In the Kendrick Mountain Wilderness
Maybe Pyrgulopsis turbatrix?
Wall Canyon sucker (Catostomus sp.) in upper Wall Creek, Washoe County Nevada. Photo by Mark E. Hereford
Small snail in bottom right. Large snail in top left is Physa sp.
In settling pond and ditches below the hatchery effluent; see also the variant in 2nd photo
found in spring rivulet running to the settling pond of the hatchery; a few were observed and collected, but were not overly abundant.
Abundant In the water supply/drain lines of Glenwood Hatchery
Long-eared chipmunk? At Bryce Canyon, UT.
Unusually large for a psuedoscorpion ~15mm; Thanks to Gretchen Baker for this special treat.
We called it Neotropical Sunbeam Snake