5.15.26 Metal Museum, Memphis, TN

The page for memphis trip 2026 is pending 


Ferruginous Carpenter Ant, a species that I have never seen before. Note the beautiful combination of a black head and first thoracic segment, red posterior two thoracic segments and petiole, and dark yellow abdomen.

Next to the Foundry Tree backdrop cloth and some plants

Horned Oak Gall

Stepped-on Ant colony

Repairing process

Note the soldier pupa (large light yellow insect next to the grass blade

Carrying larvae and pupae

Dimorphic Jumping Spider

On tote box

Unidentified Jumping Spider

Gineau Paper Wasp

Unidentified caddisfly

Blue Jay under the party tent

looking at me

Non-stepped-on ant hive

Mississipi river

Madeline the turkey vulture plushie in front of the sculpture From chaos, Reason Prevails and a very large oak

Landscape


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