Gardening in north Orange County, California

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Brown widow egg sac


And the brown widow too, though luckily I didn't know this until after I had taken the photo.

More information here at BugGuide.net and here from the CISR in Riverside.


Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Unidentified mushrooms, possibly agrocybe praecox



Patches of these mushrooms were clustered around the bases of landscape olive trees in Yorba Linda this morning.  I should have put something in the photo for a better idea of scale, or turned over one of the mushrooms!

Agrocybe praecox? or maybe Pholiotina sp.?