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Dense shrub. Stalks used in making arrows.
please help me identifying this locust
Host plant mesquite. Painopepla birds and mocking birds feeding on berries
Large, black, with a longish black curved beak.
Similar to four-wing salt bush but tinier foliage
Eating mistletoe berries on mesquite
Vocalizing on mesquite, guarding mistletoe berries at Oasis of Mara
1/2" black beetle. Flat back. Stiff body, playing dead.
On desert fan palm snag at Oasis of Mara, ...
please help me identify. I think it is a juvenile sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter ...
Medium sized tree with lime green, smooth bark and dry, brown seeds.
Cute cactus (1' or less in height) that dried up in the Mojave winter.
This great purple hairstreak was perched on an arrowweed bush near mesquite ...
Beautiful purple-pink cactus. In the spring, summer and fall, it's green.
A small black and white woodpecker with a barred pattern on the back that ...
A molted coloration makes this grasshopper hard to see against a sand/gravel ...
These small black ants are seed harvesters and hot climate specialists. They ...
I found several clusters of these small evergreen trees most were under 5 ft ...
An erect tree-like cactus that can be as tall as 6 ft. The short branches are ...
A small black and white woodpecker with a barred pattern on the back resembles ...
A large barrel cactus that can reach 6.6 ft in height. Aka Miner's compass. I ...
The White-tailed antelope squirrel is a species of ground squirrel that has ...
The common side-blotched lizard is a species of small iguanid lizard.
Other common names include desert fan palm, ...