Eastern Kingbird with Common Green Darner.
Dead housefly on inside window with raised wings with white halo around it on glass.
Looks like they were parasitizing other ground bees that have mud tunnels, I believe those to be ground diggers.
Unfortunately, this is the only view I was able to get.
String of eggs on stinging nettle. Lepidoptera?
Inside false potato vine blossom
curso de campo: arboles de Mindo, una introduccion, por Nicanor Mejía (Nico)
Thinking this might be a Pseudopanurgus female.
Thanks to jwosborn post last week, we checked out the site at Sandy Springs and the Dieunomia were still there in large numbers. They were on Eupatorium and wingstem. Also many females were along the river's edge collecting water/minerals.
I don't like my ID on this one. It seems out of place. There was a large group of them feeding on an Eupatorium and goldenrod right along the Ohio River.
Eggs/larvae found in sect. ovales sedge
Cruises for females and sleeps in Campanula rotundifolia.
On this Andrena female: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/80607809
Fungus that has consumed a small green bee. Found under bark on a log.
On our glass door, about an inch long. AI thinks it’s a fungus but I’m pretty sure it’s eggs.
Had me stumped for a long time. I'll reveal the identity soon but curious to know if anyone else has seen something like this before? Let's make it a guessing game :D
Edit: reveal in the second image, prepare for a letdown.
This is probably another Andrena asteris as it was in the same area but I wasn't sure. This female was on snakeroot.
Collecting wool from Stachys byzantina.
Animations at 0.5x speed.
I happened upon a buzzing Southeastern Blueberry Bee that had landed in the wrong spot. I am not familiar with the Northern Black Widow spider.
Saw a pair mating in this rose mallow flower. One left quickly but the other stuck around inside the flower.
On B. impatiens, not sure if the fungus colonized the bee before or after it died. @beeboy ever seen something like this?
This is an introduced species that has been recorded in several northeastern states, from Maine to New Jersey, as well as in Ontario and elsewhere in southeastern Canada, with some records also in British Columbia. This seems to be the first Ohio record in iNaturalist. I know of one other Ohio record, an individual photographed by Tim Turner in Greene Co. (just east of Dayton) on Aug. 11, 2018.
Captured and chilled for these photos. Found on Loosestrife--either fringed or whorled (I'll have to re-check which kind)
This is an interesting story with a happy ending. My friend David Ferry and I were driving along Hwy 87 at 60 mph near Crystal Beach, Texas, when I glimpsed what I thought was a Least Bittern standing on the very edge of the road with cars whizzing past. I made a U turn and went back where we indeed found a Least Bittern, resting back on its tarsus joints within inches of passing traffic. I picked up the bird and we stood on the side of the road to examine it. My best guess is that (1) it took a glancing blow off a car windshield, perhaps, or (2) It was totally exhausted from migrating across the Gulf of Mexico. It did not seem to be badly injured and its wings did not seem to be broken. Rather than just leave it here on the road to be crushed and killed I decided we would take it to a nearby marsh area off the roadway where it could die in peace and dignity. So we drove off with Dave holding the bird in his lap and heading to a marsh well off the road where I know Least Bitterns were present. We put the bird down on the edge of the marsh and it just stood there looking at us. I was about to just drive away and let nature take its course, but decided to take a few more shots of the bird. I got down low to the bird's level and it went into the characteristic bittern pose by stretching its neck high and trying to look like a swaying bit of marsh grass. It kept a watchful eye on me from both sides of its raised bill and image 1 shows this action. The bird then started slowly walking away from us. I bent down to take another shot and the bittern took flight and flew out into the marsh and out of sight. I choose to believe it recovered and is doing well.
near Crystal Beach,
Galveston Co., Texas
26 April 2018
jajaja... asi me siento, comiendo pringles mientras subo estas fotos.
Note: I have photographed this Hexatomini at Cedar Bog in Champaign County, Ohio for at least 17 years. Always in the same area.
I've added two other observations; one from back in 2004.
Links to those observations:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/88273567
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/84762884