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Cute cactus (1' or less in height) that dried up in the Mojave winter.
.Flowers: 2-3" wide; many petals.Fruit: 1-2" long, yellow, egg-shaped, fleshy. ...
An erect tree-like cactus that can be as ...
The largest of the chollas, up to 15 feet ...
A layer of these cholla spread away from me ...
Tree-like, with single trunk and spreading ...
arms and spines of the cholla cactus. This ...
be a silver cholla found on a walk near ...
A very spiny cactus, usually a shrub, but sometimes more like a
predators. And can have more then one nest in a single
9-11 mm, blue-green, scutum is shiny, wings are transparent
17-18 mm. Black with yellow markings on the head, thorox and bands on the ...
About the size of an accipiter like a Cooper's Hawk, but narrow wings and ...
Soft and fuzzy in appearance, the painfully clinging spines of this miniature ...
and Mexico. They prefer arid habitats supporting Joshua
About 14 millimeters in body length, black as shown.
Brown or greenish, easily mistaken for a Western Diamondback Rattlesnake.
About 6-7 millimeters in length, black with yellowish legs.
water form in rocky outcroppings that wind up among hillsides resplendent with ...
About 5 millimeters in body length, colored as shown.
Very large, 40-50 millimeters in body length, colored as shown.
About 12-14 millimeters in body length, large for Bostrichidae. Note the pair ...
About the size of a Rock Pigeon, colored as shown. Females lack the pronounced ...
Upper surface is creamy white with indented black borders which outline a ...
Hollow oval twig nest approximately 8ft off ground in
Densely covered with long, glistening, sharply barbed spines that mostly ...
Highly branched woody succulent often exceeding three meters in height. The ...
About 18-20 mm long, robust, black with gray, silver, and golden hairs as ...
The 1 inch (2.5 cm) wide flowers are followed by bright red, 1 inch (2.5 cm) ...
House Finches are small-bodied finches with fairly large beaks and somewhat ...
Perennial to 2'. Flowers pale yellow with 5 petals to 1" wide. Fruit a woody, ...
