Sometimes when I am looking at a bug through my camera, I wonder why I ever thought that all bugs were gross and creepy. I look at their cute faces, or their fascinating features, and marvel at them, and don't understand how I came to the conclusion that something I never actually looked carefully at was too disgusting to look at. Am I going through all of life being this judgemental?
I don't have a Backyard Bug of the Day today, because I think everything I saw has already been BBotD this season. But here are the things I saw, starting with the insect that inspired these reflections:
Click beetle
Ant
I am still seeing a lot of bumblebees in the rock garden, but I also see a lot of them in the woods, hovering over the leaf litter. This one landed and crawled under the leaves. Actually, this might be a carpenter bee, I really do need to learn the difference.
Bee fly
I found some more katydid eggs. The ones I found a few weeks ago are gone, and I think they were probably eaten by something, because it was too early for them to have hatched.
I found this puddle in the arm of an overturned lawn chair. I took a picture of what was floating on the water, to see if I could tell what it is:
I didn't notice the two springtails.
I still don't know what the rest of that is.
Crane fly?
Arachnid Appreciation:
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I think I saw this same spider on this same piece of wood yesterday.
Bowl and doily spider
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