Life On A Quarter Acre

In house, 10 mm

Found on shower curtain

On a European Weeping Birch trunk

20 mm

11 mm

18 mm

~ 16 mm

On Goldenrod flowers

~ 17 mm

mating pair?

Landed on my wife while she was picking cherries.

25 mm

Caught leaving Osmia lignaria nest in bee hotel\n15 mm

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

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 ...

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 desk

First bee in garden

~ 4 mm

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

4 mm, inside house

On spruce stump, 13 mm, 4 C

23 mm