Life On A Quarter Acre

In house, 10 mm

Found on shower curtain

On a European Weeping Birch trunk

14 mm

20 mm

14 mm

11 mm

18 mm

~ 4 mm including snout

Associated Species: Alcea rosea (Hollyhock)

~ 16 mm

On Goldenrod flowers

~ 17 mm

mating pair?

This wasp spent ten minutes or so digging a burrow in the sand. Then she spent a minute or two covering the entrance with large boulders (some with diameters greater than t the length of her thorax). After she was finished there was no trace of her ...

Landed on my wife while she was picking cherries.

25 mm

Caught leaving Osmia lignaria nest in bee hotel\n15 mm

10 mm\r\nCaught leaving bee hotel, cooled in the fridge, photographed and released.\r\n\r\nI\'m not sure what she\'s holding on to.

11 mm\r\nEntered an Osmia lignaria nest at bee hotel.

Spent the night in a bee hotel.\nHole size 14 mm,

Found in bee hotel. \r\nLength ~ 8 mm\r\n

First bee in bee hotel. \r\nSeems to have started 6 adjacent nests, with an end plug in each. Spent the night in the middle of one of the holes with her head facing the plug.

Came out of the grass as I was mowing the lawn.

~ 18 mm\r\n\r\nNymph spring field cricket Gryllus veletus?

These little guys (~ 2mm) have been covering the leaves of Penstemon plants in my garden for the last few days. They seem to be stuck on the leaves, unable to fly. Most have died; the one on the left is one of the few still alive, but seems unable to ...

Tiny midge-like insects all over Penstemon leaves

With mites

Under board in garden\n32 mm

Under a board in the garden\r\n~ 7 mm

~ 20 mm\nCrawling / flying low in front lawn\nNetted, cooled, and released

On spruce stump

9 deg C

Captured in house\r\n7 mm

18 mm

About a dozen or so of these emerged from a Trichiosoma pupa that I collected on March 31 from a Douglas Hawthorn twig. \r\n\r\n~ 8 mm\r\n\r\nI took them to the Barr Entomological Museum at the University of Idaho for identification.\r\n

Spruce stump, 7 deg C\r\nbody length 25 mm

On concrete block

On spruce stump\r\n6 deg C\r\n~ 22 mm\r\n\r\n

Exited a 7 mm diameter drilled hole in spruce stump.\r\n\r\nMale blue orchard bee emerging?\r\n\r\nHe poked his head out for a few minutes, then went back in for a few more. Then he came out, walked around a bit, and flew away.

On desk

First bee in garden

~ 4 mm

23 mm

1.5 mm body length\r\nUnder bark of silver maple tree

2.3 mm, on spruce stump

4 mm, Front porch wall

4 mm, inside house

Hundreds of these at the base of maple tree.\r\n\r\n

On desk. ~ 10 mm body length

Backed out of drilled hole in spruce stump, 5C

On spruce stump, 13 mm, 4 C

Found on a wall inside the house.

23 mm