a little wild   (a small slice of wildlife)

Great bug walk with Don and Kyla Bennett! The highlight was the samples from the lake, but I don’t have a ton of photos of that part.

Hemiptera

I’m not 100% confident this is even a bug, but I think this is a woolly aphid. Something like Phyllaphis fagi (Woolly Beech Aphid)? I thought it showed signs of feet and antenna, but I don’t see them in this photo very well. One point for great camouflage!

Backswimmer, Notonectidae –> Notonecta.

Jikradia olitoria

Hymenoptera

Ichneumonids are always tricky, but this is certainly sub-family Pimplinae, probably tribe Pimplini, and hopefully genus Itoplectus. Or it could be something else.

Odonata

From the lake (thank you Don!). Naiad (I think that’s the correct term) of a damselfly.

And an adult damselfly. Variable/violet dancer, I think — genus Argia.

And another

Coleoptera

Whirligig beetle

Diptera

Dolichopodidae, probably Dolichopus.

Spiders

Well, not actually a spider. Opiliones are omnivorous, and here’s a capture of one eating an ant.

Jumping spider. Probably a female Hentzia?

Vertebrates (!)

A tiny turtle. I was told this was a musk turtle, thank you Kyla.