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Orgy - Calophya californica - male - female

Orgy - Calophya californica - Male Female
Kitchen Creek, San Diego County, California, USA
May 8, 2016
Size: ~2mm
Found on sugar bush, most of the plants only had one or two on the new growth but this particular bush was covered

This is awesome
I've never found C. californica in these kinds of numbers. And look at all those eggs! It certainly sheds some light one the sexual dimorphism of the species too: it looks like males are always black and females are often light, but females can definitely be dark-colored too.

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