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| Sycamore Tussock caterpillar descending from a silk line |
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| It's so cool that some caterpillars will descend from a tree by a single thread of silk |
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| Wheeeee!!!!!!! |
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| Zabulon Skipper butterfly male |
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| I have claimed this finger as my own |
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| Wild Indigo Duskywing butterfly |
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| Zabulon Skipper female |
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| Male Zabulon Skipper behind a female, likely courting |
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| I didn't know Zabulon Skipper females were so much bigger and darker than the males |
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| Statiomys obesa, a wasp-mimicking fly, and Luperaltica nigripalis beetles |
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| Cool looking fly. Very wasp-like |
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| Goldenrod Soldier Beetle |
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| Goldenrod Soldier Beetle and Luperaltica nigripalpis |
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| That beetle is completely face-planted |
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| Eastern Carpenter Bee |
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| Eastern Carpenter Bee and a White-banded Crab Spider. Spider, I know you specialize in eating pollinators, but I think that bees's so big it could eat you |
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| Goldenrod Soldier Beetles going to town on a Joe-pye Weed flower. There is also a Common Eastern Bumble Bee |
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| Forage Looper Moth |
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| Herald Dart moth. |
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| Unidentified Pond Spreadwing damselfly. I have never seen Spreadwings before, and they are so big compared to the forktail and bluet damselflies I normally see. |
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| Slender Spreadwing |
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| Punctured Tiger Beetle |
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| Milkweed Tussock Moth caterpillar |
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| Dogwood Sawfly (Macremphytus tarsatus) larvae. Despite looking and behaving like caterpillars, they are sawflies, the ancestors of wasps. |
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| So cool! |
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| Carolina Grasshopper |
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| Banded Tussock Moth crawling on a Wild Bergamot leaf. The caterpillars eat tree leaves |
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| Unidentified Bumble Bee |
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| Unidentified ichneumon wasp |
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| Large milkweed Bug |
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| Eastern Pondhawk dragonfly |
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| Lots of Large Milkweed Bug Nymphs |
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| Bug on my dad's finger |
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| Large Lace-border Moth |
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| Japanese Beetle |
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| Pearl Crescent |
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