8.21.25 McCormick Place Bird Sanctuary, Chicago, IL

 

Bumble Flower Beetle. I found them like this and decided to get a closer look but accidentally knocked them off their stem. After picking them up, I took a few close-ups in my hand and placed them by their original spot. after a little persuasion, I got them to climb onto the stem.

Ventral side. Very good at feigning death.

Pronotum, scutellum, and elytron detail

Pronotum and head detail

Brown-belted Bumble Bee

Black arrow: Keeled Treehopper adult. White arrow: Keeled Treehopper nymphs. Red arrow: Keeled Treehopper eggs (probably). Blue arrow: ant tending to treehoppers. Because they suck on sap all day, treehoppers and their various relatives poop all the time, and most of this poop is sugar. This sweet substance, called Honeydew, attracts ants, which regularly harvest it. They also clean the treehoppers, protect them from predators, and sometimes take their eggs in during the winter to protect them. This event was happening on all the leaves on this plant.

Haplorhinchites aeneus?

Salt Marsh Moth caterpillar

Fall Webworm Moth

Tetragnatha