My first nighttime blacklighting for moths — mercury vapor lamp shining on a bedsheet. So many moth photos, and I can’t identify them very well, so I’m going to concentrate on non-moths.
Diptera
Limoniid crane fly?
Look at all the mites:
Toxomerus marginatus hanky-panky:
Hemiptera
Amphiaretus obscuriceps, a pirate bug. Introduced from Asia, first record in USA 1983.
Could by Gyponana.
My guess is Meadow Spittlebug, Philaenus spumarius.
Neuroptera
Probably a brown lacewing. Neuroptera –> Hemerobiidae. Perhaps Hemerobius?
Coleoptera
I think this is a rove beetle, Staphylinidae.
Carabidae, ground beetle.
Podabrus in Cantharidae?
Stenolophus lineola, in Carbidae.
Maybe –maybe! – Paratenetus in Tenebrionidae.
Dystiscid, I think:
Hydrochus genus, in Hydrophilidae. A new family for me!
Perhaps Phyllophaga, in Scarabaeidae? In other news, I’ve discovered that I’ve been spelling it wrong all this time. I *think* legs like this are found in Scarabaeidae.
Another Dystiscid?
Trichoptera
Caddisfly:
Corydalidae
Gorgeous fishfly
Hymenoptera
Ophion?
Another Ophion? This one was smaller?
Lepidoptera
Okay, *some* moths. But really, there were so many, and I’m so bad at identifying them, it’s tough to choose other than by aesthetics.
Plume moth:
No exoskeletons!
a little wild 
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