Bees, Bugs, Spiders


1
Wolf Spider

2
Assassin Bug

3
Honeybee on Lippia flower

4
Flesh Fly

5
Leaf-footed nymphs just hatched

6
Hover Fly

7
Spittlebug

8
Assassin Bug

9
An aphid appears to be hiding from an Assassin Bug passing overhead

10
Ladybug larvae getting ready to pupate

11
Ladybug larvae.  Aphids are their main food.

12
Honey Bee

13
American Bird Grasshopper

14
Cicada

15
Leaf-footed Bug on windshield

16
Common Meadow Katydid

17
Mason Wasp

18
Thread-waisted Wasp

19
Eastern Lubber Grasshopper

20
Gulf Fritillary laying another egg

21
Empty Cicada shell

22
Live Cicada with worn wing tips

23
Tiphiid Wasp

24
Assassin Bug

25
Crane Fly

26
Swamp Milkweed Leaf Beetle (~3/8")

27
Larva of Swamp Milkweed Leaf Beetle (ID by Zack Lemann)

28
Honeybee

29
Swamp Milkweed Leaf Beetle

30
Swamp Milkweed Leaf Beetles mating

31
Green June Bug about to crawl over a Passion Vine tendril

32
Swamp Milkweed Leaf Beetle (adult and larval stage)

33
Thread-waisted Wasp

34
Swamp Milkweed Leaf Beetles (one more than necessary)

35
Obscure Bird Grasshopper

36
Cicada

37
Green Bottle Fly

38
Red and Black Mason Wasp

39
Anchor Stink Bug feeding on a Gulf Fritillary caterpillar

40
American Bird Grasshopper nymph

41
Paper Wasp

42
Obscure Bird Grasshopper

43
Bumble Bee

44
Stick insects mating

45
Stick insects mating

46
Spider web
(about 1" high)

47
Leaf-footed Bug

48
American Bird Grasshopper

49
Wolf Spider
50
Paper Wasp

51
Hover Fly

52
Female Spiny-backed Orb Weaver

53
Unk. wasp

54
Honey Bee

55
Bumblebee on Bull Thistle flower

56
Bumble Bee

57
Eastern Lubber Grasshopper

58
Honey Bee about to take off

59
Elongate Twig Ant
(~1/3" long) with larval prey

60
Young Wolf Spider

61
Paper Wasp

62
Long-legged Fly
(this is a good fly to have in the garden. It feeds on mites, aphids and smaller flies)

63
Pill Bug
(not an insect but a terrestrial crustacean related to shrimp and crawfish)

64
Elongate Twig Ant

65
Elongate Twig Ant under a leaf

66
Honey Bee

67
Red and Yellow Wasp

68
Slender Meadow Katydid

69
American Bird Grasshopper

70
Leaf-footed Bug

71
Ladybug larvae eating aphids

72
Bumble Bee on Joint Vetch

73
Honeybee on Daisy Fleabane

74
Lubber grasshopper

75
Spiny-backed Orb Weaver
(the spider makes a number of silk tufts in the web which are thought to prevent birds from flying into and destroying the delicate web)

76
White Flies
(These are not really flies.  They are more closely related to aphids.  They suck the juices of plants much like aphids sometimes causing great damage.  Lady bugs love to eat them.))

77
Honey Bee

78
Tiger Beetle

79
Large Milkweed Bug

80
Thread-waisted Wasps mating

81
Paper Wasp

82
Bumble Bee

83
Assassin Bug with fly

84
Stink Bug

85
Bumble Bee with a pollen sac

86
Mud Dauber collecting a ball of mud

87
Hover Fly

88
Honey Bee

89
Honey Bee

90
Potter Wasp

91
Paper Wasp attacking a Monarch caterpillar

92
Paper Wasp with a piece of caterpillar

93
Thread-waisted Wasp

94
Honeybee on Lippia

95
Honey Bee

96
Stink Bug

97
Hover Fly

98
Hover Fly

99
Paper Wasp attacking a Monarch caterpillar

100
Carpenter Bee

101
Carpenter Bee

102
Assassin Bug

103
Assassin Bug

104
Sweat Bee

105
Thread-waisted Wasp

106
Cuckoo Bee

107
Cuckoo Bee

108
Red and Black Mason Wasp

109
Noble Scoliid Wasp

110
Cuckoo Bee

111
Honey Bee

112
Carpenter Bee

113
Carpenter Bee

114
Bumble Bee

115
Bumble Bee

116
Paper Wasp

117
Sweat Bee in water lily flower

118
Bumble Bee

119
Thread-waisted Wasp

120
Honey Bee

121
Honeybees on a
hummingbird feeder

122
Honeybee

123
Likely a type of stinkbug
(½" long)