Today was a lot like yesterday. It was a tiny bit warmer, and it didn't rain as hard, but it did rain all day. Just like yesterday, I did take my camera out briefly anyway. Unlike yesterday we went out in the evening, and there were a few bugs attracted to the porch light, and that is where I found today's Backyard Bug of the Day:
Caddisfly
There were a few other bugs attracted to the porch in the chilly, rainy night:
Crane fly
Some kind of geometer moth
Male moth, don't know the species. I am pretty sure it's a male, anyway, with those extravagant antennae.
There was an insect on the porch during the day, too–the same one that was there all day yesterday:
This march fly had turned a little bit, but was in more or less the same spot as yesterday. It was still there when we came home in the evening.
And in the backyard...
I assume this was the bee sheltering under a leaf yesterday; it was on the same plant, but today it was feeding on a flower, in the rain.
There were more bees today, and they were more active than yesterday:
The milkweed bug nymphs didn't seem bothered by the rain:
Syrphid fly (hover fly) larva, and if you look closely you can see why it is on this plant; Syrphid fly larvae eat aphids.
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