Time, Less

Oops, lost track of time, now I don't have much time to do this... It's sort of a theme today; I had to do my bug walk really quickly because I was short of time. I didn't find a lot, but I did find some really good things, so it was a pretty satisfying walk (aside from the billions of GMCs, who are most definitely not dying of any fungus in my backyard. They're just getting bigger and creepier).

I found something new for Backyard Bug of the Day:

 A beautiful iridescent beetle. The picture doesn't really do justice to the color; it was gold overall, but shimmered with pale green at certain angles. Quite stunning. Note the wings sticking out from under the elytra. The beetle was flying when I first spotted it, and I watched to see where it landed so I could look at it and see what it was. I was looking at it for a minute or so, and its wings were sticking out like that the whole time. I don't know why that happens, whether the insect chooses not to pull them in, or they just take a while, or what.

Other bugs

 Squash bug that I think was eating bird poop.

 Grape leaf roller moth (I think. It could be an eight-spotted forester moth; I couldn't see the dorsal side, which is where the salient features are for telling them apart).

 Tiny looper

 Tortoise beetle. To me these are wonderful insects. So strange, and just the kind of thing that I had no idea existed until I started studying the bugs in my backyard, and yet they were all around me.

 May fly

Some kind of flower longhorn

Arachnid Appreciation:
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 Jumping spider