Rainy Saturday

 It rained today:

I went out to do my bug walk in an intermission in the precipitation. This bee was the only one on the autumn joy sedum today.

There were definitely bugs out there, though, who were willing to risk getting caught up in the next round of rain, including today's Backyard Bug of the Day:

I think this is another tachinid fly species, but it could be another type of fly. On goldenrod.

Flies were mainly what I saw today, on this one goldenrod plant, and I got pictures of a few:

Bottle fly, and something else coming in for a landing.
 

There were a lot of katydids around today, in one particular flower bed. I saw at least half a dozen within a small area, both males and females. At night I can hear a few different species, but this is the one I see the most.

 

Assassin bug nymph

I don't know what this is, but it looks like it is from the order Hymenoptera.
 

Large milkweed bug nymphs:

These look like they have developed quite a bit... and there's proof on the right side of the picture, blurred in the background are some exuvias from molts. When I spotted them they were piled up like this...

 ... and they scattered a bit when I moved closer.

Looking back to last night...

As I was writing my blog last night, about how I didn't find any caterpillars outside with the black light, so I came in and tried it out on the caterpillars in the dining room, it occurred to me that I knew where there were quite a few caterpillars out in the dark, so I went out and shined the black light flashlight on the fall webworms, and wow, did it ever work on them! I had to tweak the color in the photo to be more accurate to how it looked, but really they were even brighter than they appear here. Fascinating. Anyway, it was after midnight, so I couldn't put them in yesterday's blog, so here they are.

Arachnid Appreciation:

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Nursery web spider on autumn joy sedum. Not a full grown spider; it was rather small.