Common Spikeweed
This nasty spiny summer plant is common spikeweed. Each leaf is a spine, and you can barely touch the plant.
Specimens collected by Steve Deaver and Ryder Richards. ID by Guy Kyser of UC Davis.
Dog Vomit Slime Mold
Not fully sure, but we believe this is dog vomit slime mold, dripping from the eaves of this house. Photos by Jon Shattuck, September 2017.
White fungus on a beam ???
Josh Esposito took these photos, and collected the samples, of what might appears to be white fungus on a beam.
The material with water, as a test.
The material with water, as a test.
side-on view
side view
A-one side
A-the other side
Sand Wasps, Bembix
Jason Price brought in a sand wasp from near the Columbia College housing, near the volleyball area, 20 July 2018. There were many sand wasps there, and they were bringing in flies to provision their nests.
Multi-branch collapse on valley oaks in Gold Springs, 8 July 2018
At about 10:45 pm, 8 July 2018, we heard loud crackling sounds, followed by breaks, crackling and thuds. Heather and I went over, using spotlights, and found that a number of branches of large valley oaks had broken off. I took these photos the next morning. It appears that five large branches fell, from three different valley oaks. A dominoes effect must have occurred, with one very high branch taking down another, high branch on a different tree, and they took out everything beneath them.
