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Around 9 days ago I smelled skunk musk on the evening breeze. Again tonight. Am presuming this is an aspect of the season, as it is obviously a time when many animals are preparing to mate if they have not already coupled.

I lifted some leaf refuse in the Botanical Gardens to see what kind of insects might be there and was rather shocked to discover about 70 beach hoppers, and a single dead centipede. I moved some other litter and found a few hundred more. This seems a rather radical find. Although I was conscious of the fact that a lot of this area and Golden Gate Park used to be sand dunes, it was hard to imagine. But we are talking about miles from the ocean. At least 3. That’s pretty deep supralittoral penetration.

I was thinking that any creature capable of capitalizing on this food source would have, at least right now, an incredibly vast source to draw from. Of course the predators specialized to prey on this organism are unlikely to follow them beyond the near proximity of the ocean.