Sierra and I went down into Porter Cave (also called Empire Cave) today
looking for some endemic species. There are several invertebrates that
are found nowhere else in the world but in Cave Gulch (the drainage
containing Porter Cave), and some have their entire global distribution
in Porter Cave. We managed to find several Empire Cave spiders, endemic
to Cave Gulch. There were a bunch of small ones near the entrance, but
a little deeper in Sierra spotted a big guy, and then informed me that
there was a massive one behind my head. Check it out:
Sierra also spotted two members of the ever-cute Ensatina eschscholtzii xanthopica, or yellow-eyed ensatina.
We saw this beetle in Crown Meadow. I wonder if it's a rare Ohlone Tiger Beetle.
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