Archive for September 2015
Ninigret Park in Rhode Island
A little experimental: I took a longer exposure of the previous scene (1/3 second) while it was very windy, to get a wavy effect. Enhanced the color curve a bit, but no other editing.
Praying Mantises are fierce predators. I can’t but help notice, however, that they look like complete goofballs.
At Ninigret Beach, there were a lot of birds.
We saw a wasp either laying eggs in a grasshopper, or dragging it back to its burrow to feed the babies. It was identified on BugGuide as Prionyx:
More photos from the backyard.
Candy-striped leafhoppers always put on a show:
Syrphidae:
Araneid orb weaver (genus Araneus? Neoscona? Not sure).
Not a very clean eater, is it?
You don’t have to go far to see interesting things.
Not a very good photo, but it seems to me to be an ant-mimic spider. Perhaps Synemosyna formica, in Salticidae.
Dreaming of fat and juicy flies, perhaps:
An ambush bug (Phymatinae):
Candy-striped leafhopper, Graphocephala coccinea:
Haven’t had a lot of good insect photos lately, but as always, I’ve enjoyed the search. I don’t fish, so this is my substitute: an excuse to go outdoors and enjoy my time.
This is maybe a sweat bee. I have been trying hard to get good photos of sweat bees, cuckoo wasps or jewel wasps, without a lot of success. This is as good as I have got so far, but it doesn’t really do justice to the iridescent colors.
This is dragonfly season!
I’m not sure what the significance of the “tail-up” pose is. Some seem to believe that it has to do with regulating temperature through sun exposure.
Underneath a rock. Perhaps Amaurobiidae? If so, I would expect to see spinnerets.
Cute little fly outside my house. Perhaps genus Chlorops, but I Am Not An Expert. [Edit: identified by Kai Beck on the Facebook Entomology group, as Lauxaniidae, but Drosophila was also mentioned as a possibility.]
a little wild 