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William Bagwell

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Is a blind bee cool enough? Found about a month ago, think carpenter bee but not 100% sure. Chartreuse eyed which I have been told is due to recessive gene like red or white eyed.

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Cool picture I took yesterday with a calculator, aka my phone! See the little tongue?? That's a tongue, right?

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i went through some of my pics to contribute to the thread

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oh yeah forgot this one

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A bumble in one of my haskap flowers from a few years ago.

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Here are some bug pictures I posted in various threads before. I especially fond of the predatory ones.

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Nancy Reading

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I'm seeing more of these again this year. Managed to get a good enough photo to identify it as a male blue ringed dragonfly. One of the reasons I love them is that they are prime midge predators!

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And a few of these too!
Perfectly disguised as a small punky birch twig. This is a buff tip moth.

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I spotted these tiny caterpillars on a sorrel leaf today - so cute, about 1/4 inch long. Maybe they are peacock butterfly larvae, although those are usually on nettles.

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black caterpillars with tufts on sorrel leaf

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I heard something buzzing by the other day and waited for it to land eventually. An Eastern eyed click beetle!

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Nancy Reading wrote:I spotted these tiny caterpillars on a sorrel leaf today - so cute, about 1/4 inch long. Maybe they are peacock butterfly larvae, although those are usually on nettles.

I look up peacock butterfly, it's so pretty! Please share the updates from these caterpillars.

My favorite butterfly plants in the garden are milkweed and dill. Caterpillars of monarch butterfly and black swallowtail show up reliably on these plants every year. I don't have the pictures now but look at other dwellers on this milkweed.

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Nancy Reading wrote:I spotted these tiny caterpillars on a sorrel leaf today - so cute, about 1/4 inch long. Maybe they are peacock butterfly larvae, although those are usually on nettles.

Lovely! Sheep sorrel is apparently, "A favourite foodplant of caterpillars of the Small Copper Butterfly and Forester Moth". But Small Copper caterpillars are green or green & pink, and Forester Moth have black stripes with white & orange. So a bit of a mystery!

https://www.caterpillarfoodplants.com/sheeps-sorrel.html

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Ryan M Miller wrote:Does anybody have an idea what insect this is?

This is a robber fly,

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Brood XIX of the 13-year periodical cicada emerged in Missouri this year. I feel lucky to witness and HEAR the event right in my backyard.

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Found this little guy and a friend nesting near my garden. I think they are sweat bees? Bright green with striped abdomen.

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These are bees on my dad's pussywillow trees. I love bees! I wish I had gotten a picture of the gold plated ladybug I found in my living room a few years ago. It sat on my hand for several minutes while I struggled to get my phone camera to cooperate, then vanished right before I clicked the photo! It was gorgeous! This is what it looked like, though.

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A rather hairy black caterpillar using a narrow plantain leaf as an umbrella.

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Every time I actually see a caterpillar on the said host plant I am thrilled.

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Cloudless sulfur caterpillar on partridge pea

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It was foggy yesterday morning. I walked around the garden and found many bowl-and-doily spiderweb.

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Hester Winterbourne wrote: Ooh and a leopard slug.

I found two big leopard slugs mating from a thread of slime in midair on my garge doors, many years ago, it is actually a really incredible thing.

David Attenborough had one in a documentary, and I just found it.

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