Cicindella sexguttata

Platygastridae?? Maybe.

Ceratina

Ceresa

Phasmid!

Agelenid

Archaeognatha

Green lacewing

Psocid

Lepturina and Reduviid

Dolichopodidae


Auplopus?

Augochlora pura


Toxomerus


Corydalidae

Plume moth


Ceratina

Sawfly?

Chrysidid

Hoverflies hovering! Sphaerophoria.


Platycryptus undatus

Lasioglossum


Auplopus?

Sphecodes

Isthmocoris piceus


Mutillidae


This beetle (which looks BB8 from Star Wars) is Desmopachria, in the tribe Hyphydrini, subfamily Hydroporinae, family Dytiscidae. I’m excited because it’s the first BugGuide report of this tribe and genus in Massachusetts — my third taxon that I have a state first (Dolichurus and Podium luctuosum are the two others).

So many tiny springtails all over the place. It turns out that these are Sminthurides malmgreni, and that makes it the first report in BugGuide/iNat of this species anywhere in the USA. There’s another report in British Columbia, though. Combined with the Desmopachria (see below), that makes my fourth taxon that’s a first for Massachusetts.

Water mite, Hydrachnidia

Caddisfly larva, with its casing

Salamander egg. Probably Ambystoma, spotted salamander.

Fairy shrimp!


