5.14.26 Meeman-Shelby State Forest, TN (medium-no-winged bugs)

    From 5.13.26-5.16.26 my father, sister and I drove from Chicago, IL to Memphis, TN and back. This is from Day 2.

See all of the Memphis trip posts at the Memphis 2026 page.


Pennsylvania Dingy Ground Beetle

Bronzed Tiger Beetle

Pasimachus sp., a predatory ground beetle 

This thing was so huge (like over an inch long) we thought it was a female stage beetle

Nyooooooom

Eastern Carpenter Bee

Leg up in defense. Your the one who's in a random seam in our car. You have an entire state forest

Getting out

Some sort of Long-jawed Jumping spider

Four Toothed Mason Wasp carrying a caterpillar back to the hive

Wheeeee!

zoooooom

Southern Yellowjacket. The orange abdomen means that this is a queen

Red Paper Wasp

Carolina Grasshopper

Western Honey Bee and a Zebra Swallowtail

Brown-belted Bumble Bee

Unidentified crane fly

Crane flies mating. The lower one has a blazing orange parasitic larvae on the back side of it's thorax

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