I wasn't going to do a bug walk today because I didn't have the time and it was raining again today, but I saw a cool spider when I went outside to get the mail, so I had to go inside and get my camera, and then once I was out there taking pictures of the spider I looked around, and one thing led to another, and...
I didn't do a full bug walk. I did look around for bugs though.
Backyard Bug of the Day:
Some kind of plant bug
Other Bugs:
Caterpillar
I saw this after my non-bug walk, and had to take the picture with a cellphone. It was windy (of course, it's always windy these days), so it's kind of blurry. But this is the eastern tiger swallowtail caterpillar I saw a few days ago.
In spite of the fact that it was raining a bit (like it does pretty much every day now; I think we've had a month's worth of rain this week), there were bumblebees feeding on the raspberries).
Katydid nymph
I think it is funny that I can barely identify more than a few species of caterpillar, but some I can recognize by their discarded skins:
White marked tussock moth caterpillar
And here it is, on the other end of the leaf.
Cranefly
Moth
Arachnid Appreciation:
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This is a new species of spider for me, I think. This is from when I startled it and it dropped down onto this milkweed leaf.
This is from when it moved back up among the milkweed flower buds.
Jumping spider on milkweed
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