Another beautiful photo sent in by lopshirephotography. This one of a Dragonfly, you’ll have to settle for that ID for right now, I have a Molecular Cell Bio final tomorrow… Besides, Odonata are tough!
“Yellow Jacket”- lopshirephotography
Thank you for submitting another beautiful photograph! This one of a Vespula sp., an intelligent beneficial social wasp known, as you’ve said, commonly, as the Yellow Jacket.
I deposited my rescued little bee on some lavender outside our house and she happily got right to work.
I’m going to guess that this Flower Spider is a Goldenrod Crab Spider because I always find them on Goldenrod right out front of my house. I always thought that they couldn’t change color once they were adults but according to wiki they can. I had thought it had to do with the color of flower they were hatched on at an early age. Either way the species has both white and yellow morphs. I have photos to share of the yellow ones I found today as well. They are such beautiful little creatures.
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Flower crab spiders are crab spiders of the genus Misumena with holarctic distribution.
The goldenrod crab spider is the largest and most well-known of the North American flower spiders, commonly seen hunting in goldenrod sprays in autumn. It can change its color between white and yellow to match the flower it is sitting on. The color change takes a few days.”-wiki
A little help.
“Hi Bug Girl, I was wondering if you could help me ID this little guy. It was photographed in Melbourne, Australia. I think it might be a Bibionidae sp, but I’m unsure. Any help will be greatly appreciated!”
Hi Brock! I wish I could help but most Diptera are way beyond my amateur bug identifying capabilities…especially, Australian Diptera! Perhaps, someone else will be able to help! Beautiful photo and blog.
lil friend 1
“I was sweeping my deck a couple months ago and saw a butterfly stuck in a web, trying to get loose. I got a stick, pulled the butterfly of and set it on a palm leaf and pulled all the web, dirt and dog hair from it. After a few minutes it flew off. I thought “what could create such a strong web?”. I went over looked under the deck railing and found this creepy freaky spider. Here are 3 photos of Mista Spider. What is it? Deadly or just intimidating? “- My friend Terbo
