a little wild   (a small slice of wildlife)

No Bugs

Waterflow

I apologize for so many photos, but just a little.

Time exposure with the reflection of the sun.

Hymenoptera

Lasioglossum, subgenus Dialictus

Proctotrupidae wasps.

From BugGuide:

Identification

Antennae with 13 segments

Terminal abdominal segment narrow, elongated, and down-curved in many species

Non metallic. Often black, sometimes red.

Forewing with large stigma, beyond which is a very small marginal cell.

Parasitoids of beetle larvae, fungus gnats

Cryptinae, I think.

Is this Diapriidae? EDIT: Probably not. That appears to be a stigma on the wing, in which case it’s likely to be another Proctotrupidae.

Odonata

Spiders

Agelenopsis. Note the distended palps. That’s a male mating with the female.

Perhaps Mangora

Mangora placida

Sergiolus in Gnaphosidae.

Leucauge venusta

Trichoptera

Diptera

Stunning mosquito! Or gnat.

My first time taking the Laowa 24mm probe lens to a tide pool. As a reminder, the tip is waterproof and can be introduced underwater. It has its own light source, and can focus down to 2:1 magnification.

Beavertail State Park is in Jamestown, RI, at the southern tip. Deserves a lot more time — I didn’t know we had sea arches that close by!

Usually, I have to chase my subjects, especially with the razor thin depth of field in macro photography. However, the tide pools were full of shrimp, and the shrimp were full of aggression. The moment I tried to take a photograph, they came right up to the lens, presumably to attack it. Which meant that they were close enough it was tough to get the whole shrimp in the field of view. And a lot of the photographs of other objects had shrimp photobombers.

So very colorful!