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3-5 mm long, under a rock in serpentine chaparral. There were also ants under the rock that I idiotically didn't photograph. They were more like 8mm long and glossy (not argentines, not Prenelops, didn't really look like Camponotus, but I'm terrible with ants). Note to self: in the future. photograph any ants you see with pseudoscorpions.

All handheld shots with the Laowa 5x.

Pink grasshopper, approximately 2 cm (less than 1 inch) long, sitting in grassland.

Valley Grasshopper (Oedaleonotus enigma) Native insect in the Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae) Family

"Sometimes, individual orthopterans (grasshoppers, crickets and katydids) display pink coloration that is not typical of their species. In particular, many grasshoppers are green and so these pink individuals may have a rare genetic mutation that causes this pink coloration (called erythrism). We want to track which species have these brilliant pink aberrants and also where they occur. "

INaturalist Project: Pink Orthopteran Project https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/pink-orthopteran-project

Bug photographs from the U.S/Canada for I.D: https://bugguide.net/index.php?q=search&keys=Oedaleonotus+enigma and https://bugguide.net/index.php?q=search&keys=Acrididae

Five green and yellow tortoise-shell-like structures found on a fallen leaf (probably hangehange, Geniostoma rupestre) on a forest track. Nine days later numerous tiny yellow egg-shaped objects appeared scattered over the surface. Eggs?