6.13.25 Royal Botanic Gardens, Hamilton, ON I



Peacock Brenthia Moth

Side. It kept on spinning around in an attempt to look like a jumping spider.

Back

Pale Beauty (moth)

Snowy Geometer Moth

Walking around

Grayish Fan-foot

Grayish Fan-foot

Unidentified Geometer Moth

Newman's Mathildana Moth

On leaf, with another Newman's Mathildana Moth in the upper left corner

Newman's Mathildana Moth with wings spread

Little Wood Satyr

Silky Laphria

On the underside of a leaf

Band-winged Crane Fly

Unidentified Non-biting Midge

Unidentified Long-legged Fly, probably a Dolichopus

Unidentified Fly

Steel-blue Cricket Hunter

Under some clovers

A small, unidentified Dung Beetle. I'm pretty sure it's in subfamily Scarabaeinae (True Dung Beetles)

Web (creator unknown). Probably made by an insect, possibly a Barklouse (booklice are a type of barklouse)

North American Common Water Strider. Note how the disturbances in the water create shadows. The front pair of legs in Water Striders are much smaller than the rest and look like large mouthparts. This is why water striders look like they just have four legs.

Common Eastern Bumble Bee

 

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