Good Rain

Rain cut my bug walk short today, but I am glad for the rain. Rain will encourage the growth of the fungus that will kill the gypsy moth caterpillars. We need everything to be damp until that happens. So far I haven't seen as many of them this year as in the last couple of horrid years, but they are out there, eating and growing:

 This one is big enough to have developed its spots quite clearly.

Backyard bug of the Day:

 Treehopper, possibly Entylia carinata.

 I found a couple of them on different goldenrod plants, which Kaufman's Field Guide to Insects of North America lists as the place where you'll find them. But do you see anything else in this picture, anything of an insect kind? Hint: there are two of them.

 Here's another hint, but there's only one here.

Other Bugs:

 Grape leaf roller moth

 Beetle

 Sawfly larva

 Some kind of Hemiptera nymph

 Long-legged fly

 Some kind of case bearing caterpillar

 Adult assassin bug, that's three days in a row.

 Beetle

Arachnid Appreciation:
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