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“I photographed this dead woodrat on San Marcos Foothills Preserve on May 2, 2022. I'm wondering if it is a Dusky-footed Woodrat.”
Barbara, Santa Barbara - June 15, 2022
“Hello,
I found this fish hook and petrified fish at Hendry's Beach
Is the fish hook Chumash ?”
Silvia, Santa Barbara CA - June 11, 2022
“If someone finds an insect that is a one of a kind and compeltely unknown to science, who gets to name such a find?”
Ken, Ventura - June 10, 2022
“I saw a weird bug with 8 legs and two of them were really big. It was about 2 inches long.”
Flora, Nipomo, CA - May 30, 2022
“Hi,
This guy was at our patio during a drizzling earlier morning Riviera area.
Thank you,
Ann”
Ann, Riviera, Santa Barbara - May 27, 2022
“Hi!My daughter saw an interesting beetle at school (in Temecula, California), and she asked me if I knew what type of beetle it was. She took a photo of it with her phone (please see...”
Scott, Murrieta, California - May 20, 2022
“Saw this on my front door today, is there an arachnologist you know who can identify it? It was a bigger spider than I typically see around here roughly the size of the largest wolf spiders...”
Hans, Newbury Park, CA - May 6, 2022
“just read the answer you gave in 2020 regarding the interaction between the monarch caterpillars and the tachinid flies. We do not raise monarchs but have milkweed in an area o...”
juliet, Malibu, CA - April 19, 2022
“Hi Geologists -
Out in the Santa Ynez Valley at the corner of Happy Canyon Rd. and Baseline Rd. in the streambead I found these very large rocks. They were too big to move (small boulders...”
Robert, Santa Barbara - March 20, 2022
“My children and I are looking for assistance in identifying the exact type of mollusk these shells come from and the type of environment they would live in. We are in the process of mapping what...”
The Killen Family, Carpinteria - March 15, 2022
