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Highlights of July

Cactus flowers blooming. Wasps, bees, and flies in abundance.
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Monarch caterpillars
Marine blue butterflies
Long-horned bees lekking
Bee flies
Bumble bee robber flies
Paper wasp nests
Gray bird grasshoppers in abundance
Stink bugs mating
Milkweed bug nymphs
Fig-eater beetles
Yellow garden spiders
Immature orb weavers
Hummingbird nests and babies
Mocking bird nest and babies
Mourning dove nests and babies
Cactus flowers blooming
South Coast Botanical Gardens, TorranceSouthern green stink bug - Nezara viridulaCabbage white - Pieris rapaeMarine blue -Leptotes marinaMonarch - Danaus plexippusSalt marsh moth - Estigmene acreaBee fly 2 - Villa sp.Little blood-red flower fly  - Paragus haemorrhousThree-lined lema beetle - Lema sp.Gray bird grasshopper - Schistocerca nitensBlack and yellow mud dauber - Sceliphron caementariumWeevil wasp 1 - Cerceris sextoidesValley carpenter bee - Xylocopa sonorinaMourning Dove - Zenaida macrouraNorthern Mockingbird - Mimus polyglottosNorthern Mockingbird - Mimus polyglottosWestern Fence Lizard - Sceloporus occidentalisHooded Oriole - Icterus cucullatusWestern black widow - Latrodectus hesperusWestern striped cucumber beetle - Acalymma trivittatum