Summer sort of comes and goes lately. Monday was the unofficial start of summer, or what I call Social Summer, which begins on Memorial Day, and it was hot last weekend, but then it was much cooler all week, and often raining, until today. Today the blue skies and the summery warmth were back. I liked it, and so did the bugs.
The Order of the Day is Odonata.
Backyard Co-Bug of the Day #1:
Damselfly. I actually saw two of these today, but this is the only one I was able to photograph.
Backyard Co-Bug of the Day #2:
Dragonfly. I think this is a new species for me; I don't remember seeing one with those color eye.
Backyard Co-Bug of the Day #3:
Not from the order Odonata, but I think this is a cool picture of a cool bug, so here it is. I think this is a midge, a male one. It was on the storm door when we got home this evening.
Other Bugs:
Beetle with some kind of wing problem.
The ants seem to have herded the aphids closer together on this sapling.
Assassin bug adult
Assassin bug nymph
Crane fly with mite
Hoverfly
Hopper nymph
Katydid nymph
Caterpillar
Moth.
Sawfly
If you look at the leaf below the flower where this bumblebee is you'll see an ant. The ant was on the flower, but when the bee came along it bumped it off.
Ladybeetle
Honeysuckle borers.
Beetle
This is the first bumblebee I have seen in at least a week, I think. I did not notice when I took the picture that there appear to be legs of an insect or perhaps an arachnid on the other side of the flower the bee is feeding on.
Sawfly larvae
Weevil
In addition to the midge that is BBotD, there were quite a lot of other insects on the front porch when we got home this evening. Most of them were flying around, or at least refusing to sit still for a picture, but I got a few:
Beetle on the porch light
Ichneumon wasp
I'm still not sure if this is a firefly. I have not seen any lighting up in the backyard yet this year.
Crane fly
Arachnid Appreciation:
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