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Not the best photo but a new insect to me. A sort of solitary wasp, the body was about 3/4 inch long, very thin. Apparently a predator to caterpillars
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Predatory wasp on spruce twig
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I found this pupa the other day - clever looking like something you wouldn't want to mess with....

black and yellow chrysalis butterfly pupa
not a wasp


I'd not seen one so had to look it up...It appears to be a pupa of a magpie moth. I see them a lot for a few weeks in the summer, but have not noticed the other parts of it's life cycle before. There was a single pupa attached to one of the branches of hazel I had coppiced over winter. According to UK Moths it is not so common in Scotland, but we have loads here, maybe because our winters are pretty mild.

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adult Abraxas grossulariata

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A beautiful dobsonfly.

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Eyed Elater!
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i love click beetles. always have.
 
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Maybe this grasshopper ate too many raspberries?

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I found a zebra swallowtail caterpillar on the pawpaw tree, the only host plant for this beautiful butterfly.
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I'm not sure what kind of beetle this is, but it was pretty. Saw him crawling across my lawn.
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probably a Fiery Searcher. a ground beetle (family Carabidae).
 
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greg mosser wrote:probably a Fiery Searcher. a ground beetle (family Carabidae).



Maybe... but the shape almost fits the golden ground beetle better than the fiery searcher now that I look it up.
 
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This is the first time I have seen grasshoppers chilling on top of a sunflower. Saw one just chilling on a leaf, and then a friend hiding under the edge one plant over.

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I found a huddle of bugs that I am not familiar with.

Some form of bee? They just hung on the leaf and didn't leave when I was nearby.

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Caught some great spangled fritteraries mating on our mithcanthus grass. We have tons of wild violets around so I guess that's why they are here.
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butterflies mating, July 2025
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I cut down a eastern red cedar early this year to make room for more fruit trees. I found out it was being infested by pine bark beetles. Then I saw lots of tiny ant-like insects crawling around the barks. I thought those were pests at first. I took some pictures and looked online. Turned out they were checkered beetles (Enoclerus nigripes), the beneficial predators of bark beetles! I left the wood piles in place for a few months. Hopefully the good guys had finished up and found new food sources nearby.
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Checkered beetle and bark beetles
Checkered beetle and bark beetles
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Marks under red cedar bark
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Took this not too long ago, would love to know what it is...

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Loving all the pics of these wonderful crawlies!!  I have seen many of them in various places I have been.  The pink & yellow moth I saw several years ago, beautiful in real life!! So vibrant.  Funny how we take all these pics, yet they never seem to truly catch the beauty of the moment. But I will take pics any day just to see what I may not otherwise.  --Tess

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Tess Misch wrote:Took this not too long ago, would love to know what it is...



Possibly juvenile stink bug?: https://www.bugguide.net/node/view/2259571/bgimage not very nice name for a pretty thing.

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Nancy Reading wrote:

Tess Misch wrote:Took this not too long ago, would love to know what it is...



Possibly juvenile stink bug?: https://www.bugguide.net/node/view/2259571/bgimage not very nice name for a pretty thing.



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i had to look up the black horsefly i did not know what it was.... apparently they can fly at 90 mph... one of the fastest insects!
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