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Hefflefinger Cliff Revisited

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After just a few days I made my way back out to the Hefflefinger cliff. This was my third time visiting this site. I wanted to see if I could find any more leaf mines on the large leaved sandworts. I did not find any, but I noticed many other things. Some type of psylloidea feeding on large leaved sandwort Some type of lepidopteran feeding on large leaved sandwort Some type of geometer moth feeding on large leaved sandwort Some type of sawfly feeding on large leaved sandwort Nesolechia oxyspora and Abrothallus sp. parasitizing a lichen I only noticed a few spiny gray horsehair lichen (Bryoria nadvornikiana) last time, but today I saw many State Watchlist Species: Newly/Rediscovered Erineum mite sp. on Sorbus My first time seeing hanging fringe lichen (Anaptychia crinalis) inland State Special Concern Species Cyphobasidium hypogymniicola galls on a tube lichen (Hypogymnia sp.) Brown-gray moss-shingle lichen (Protopannaria pezizoides) my second time seeing this species State Threatened S