a little wild   (a small slice of wildlife)

I hadn’t been to King Phillip’s Rock in a long time.  It’s the best place I’ve found for insects, for whatever reason.

Here’s a gorgeous wasp, Ichneumonidae:

I love scorpionflies for their alien appearance:

I think this is a bee-like tachinid fly.  Maybe Epalpus cf signifer.

A beautiful Derbid planthopper:

I like the light in this photo:

Caterpillar:

Theridiidae?

There was a stag beetle I was trying to photograph, but it escaped.  As it escaped, it led to a congregation of dozens (maybe hundreds) of click beetles (Elateridae).  I think this was mating behavior, don’t know what else it could be.

This is either a robber fly (Laphria) or a golden-backed snipe fly, with its Elateridae prey.

There was a major infestation of moth caterpillars, perhaps gypsy moths.

Nothing improves my mood like a walk in the woods.