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| Six-spotted Fishing Spider!!! What a cool arachnid!!! |
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| Pest (plant-eater) or predator? Predator, skating around on the pond and sometimes eating entire fish fry or tadpoles!!! |
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| Helmeted Squash Bug nymph (juvenile) on a piece of naturally fallen American Sycamore bark |
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| Pest or pollinator. Pest, sucking sap from squashes and relatives. Of course, nothing is a pest in the ecosystem. Except for people |
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| A very photogenic Widow Skimmer |
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| Pest or predator? As a dragonfly, not only a predator but the world's most efficient |
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| So pretty |
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| A very large Differential Grasshopper |
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| Pest or predator? Pest of many plants. Also bird lunch |
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| Unidentified Leaf-footed Bug nymphs and a hackberry sapling leaf pointing the way |
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| Pest, but also lunch for some predator |
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| A surprisingly large male Spotted Orbweaver. This one is the size of the larger females. That's weird because male spiders are usually fairly smaller than females so the female can eat them after mating. This one will make quite the snack for his mate |
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| Differential Grasshopper |
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| Scissor Grinder cicada? |
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| Pest of tree roots, but amazing snacks for many predators |
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| Cool on the fencing |
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| Eurasian Collared Dove (left) and a grooming Great Blue Heron (right). Eurasian Collared Doves eat a lot of stuff, but Great Blue Herons are predators. (mostly of fish, but sometimes of snakes, frogs, and bugs. |
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| Black-crowned Night Heron grooming. Predator, like the Great Blue Heron |
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| Juvenile Olive-sided Flycatcher, which my family and I rarely see. Predator |
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| Mating Blue Dashers (right). Predators |
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| Bald-faced Hornet. Predator. Also in the hornet family Vespidae, which contain the only wasps that are aggressive without being directly handled I think. This is one of those wasps that will attack you. But only if you get close to their hive |
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| Look at those three mini eyes! |
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| Unidentified weevil. Pest, but still food for something. Every organism has a purpose in the wider ecosystem. |
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| Unidentified Long-legged Fly in the genus Condylostylus. Predator. |
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| Differential Grasshopper |
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| Large Milkweed Bugs. Pests, but if a plant is being eaten by native bugs it's doing one of its jobs. Also, look at those parent insects protecting their babies! |
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| False Milkweed Bug not on milkweed. |
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| Scissor Grinder or another Cicada in the Dog-day Cicada Genus |
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| Black Carpenter Ant. Pest and predator. Sneaky |
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| A Scissor Grinder cicada that has just emerged from it's final juvenile husk! |
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| So cool!!! Also, why is there red stuff smeared on it's three mini eyes. Bugs don't have red blood, so I have no idea what it is |
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| Climbing up a tree! |
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| Awesome. Video of this cicada pending |
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