Help me

 I'm depressed so this post is way overdue but a year or two ago I'd been importing locally sourced native tenebrionids (Coelocnemis, Eleodes acuticauda, Eleodes gracilis, Eleodes osculans, possibly other Eleodes, Notibius puberulus), one mutillid fem (Dasymutilla aureola), and what I provisionally take to be Trirhabda geminata adults to Peck Road Water Conservation Park. Also dumped seeds of some esoteric native flora at a school's native garden (update from future me: Plymouth Elementary School, Monrovia. This is the same Plymouth Elementary I reference in future posts. Unfortunately the idiots who maintain the garden mulched all the seeds to probable death; they don't understand that mulch is bad for truly-native native annuals in this part of California) because the state of the art here is that native gardeners don't have much idea what they're doing. If you're some ecohistorian reading this long after I'm dead and you find some sort of distributional anomaly at Peck now you know who to blame! Edit: haven't checked up on the tenebs yet but trirhab vanished. Not sure if they're supposed to have boom/bust years if that magnitude or if Linepithema killed their larvae. The adult trirhabs I imported definitely lived a goodly while though, several were resighted by me several days later and were eating.

Peck did have Blapstinus, Metoponium, Coniontis, and Phloeodes diabolicus long before I arrived though. Was surprised to see diabolicus surviving in habitat fragments that small, considering that it can't fly (at least some Blapstinus and probably some edrotines can fly, and conions do well in super tiny crap habitats despite seemingly all lacking flight wings).

I discovered dodders can induce the green island effect while culturing what's provisionally C. californica.

Current inventory, all IDs provisional (I recently remembered provisional was a word and provisional is generally a more accurate descriptor for my level of expertise than than tentative):

Plants I have dormant, collected from wild except the vegs:

Encelia farinosa

Lepidospartum squamosum

Salvia columbariae

Zeltnera venusta

Camissoniopsis bistorta

Cryptantha, Plagiobothrys

Crassula connata, colligata

Selaginella bigelovii

Riccia campbelliana, trichocarpa, maybe nigrella is hiding in there

Asterella californica, palmeri

Fossombronia

Domesticated hot pepper (dodder food)

Some other things I can't ID or maybe forgot

Things I currently have actively growing:

Cuscuta subinclusa

Sphaerocarpos

The two different unidentifiable gametophyte things

Mosses that show up uninvited

My haplodesmid-y thing

Too tired to tag this post properly but at least I managed to type it all out. I'm also having a bit of an aesthetics crisis over the ontology of wrinkles and marcescent leaves (I take aesthetics very seriously) so I don't think I'll bother to post pics or further pics of most of these (the marchantiophytes all get a Get Out Of Jail Free card because I actually have some idea why their basal death exists. That's... not the most well-reasoned rationale I admit, but one has to draw the line somewhere). Also yes yes I know my blog looks kinda "web 1.0" and I really hate the depressing sterile Brutalist-ish look web 1.0 sites of this sort have but I don't hate it enough to resort to the alternatives. The alternatives are worse for my intents/purposes, many make the label tag list-thing disappear. Kind of hypocritical considering how I'm not even bothering to tag this post amirite? Whatever.

Maybe I'll gain enough psyche healthpoints to add the tags in a few years. Will I even survive that long?