We had seven participants on this week's survey. The morning began rather cool but the sun later produced one of those perfect Austin spring days. Moths continue to be high in diversity around the security lights. The tiny red insects appearing on Texas Mountain Laurel are plant bug nymphs (miridae: Lopidea major), which feed by sucking juice out of the plant. They will grow to about 6 or 7 mm in length. Select Photos and Complete List of Sightings: Lopidea major (plant bug nymph) photo by Val Bugh Acronicta lepetita (dagger moth) photo by Val Bugh Horisme intestinata (brown bark carpet) photo by Val Bugh Hyles lineata (white-lined sphinx) photo by Val Bugh Unknown sp. (bee) photo by Val Bugh Pyrgus communis/albescens (common/white checkered-skipper) photo by Val Bugh Pyrgus philetas (desert checkered-skipper) photo by Val Bugh Ellabella editha (tropical fruitworm moth) photo by Val Bugh Strymon melinus (gray hairstreak) photo by Val Bugh Unknown sp. (plume moth larva) photo by Val Bugh Eupithecia bolterii (pug) photo by Val Bugh Eritettix abortivus (Texas short-winged slant-faced grasshopper) photo by Val Bugh Liris sp. (cricket wasp) photo by Val Bugh Unknown sp. (ichneumon) photo by Val Bugh Birds: American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) American Robin (Turdus migratorius) Bewick's Wren (Thryomanes bewickii) Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) Black-crested Titmouse (Baeolophus atricristatus) Carolina Chickadee (Poecile carolinensis) Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum) Crested Caracara (Caracara cheriway) Ladder-backed Woodpecker (Picoides scalaris) Lincoln's Sparrow (Melospiza lincolnii) Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus) Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) Orange-crowned Warbler (Vermivora celata) Swainson's Warbler (Limnothlypis swainsonii) Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) Western Scrub-jay (Aphelocoma californica) White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys) White-winged Dove (Zenaida asiatica) Yellow-rumped Warbler (Dendroica coronata) Amphibians: Rio Grande Leopard Frog tadpoles (Rana berlandieri) Insects & Spiders: order family genus/species common name lepidoptera   nymphalidae   Phyciodes tharos   Pearl Crescent       Junonia coenia   Common Buckeye       Vanessa atalanta   Red Admiral    papilionidae   Battus philenor   Pipevine Swallowtail       Papilio polyxenes   Black Swallowtail       Papilio multicaudata   Two-tailed Swallowtail    pieridae   Colias eurytheme   Orange Sulphur       Eurema nicippe   Sleepy Orange       Colias cesonia   Southern Dogface       Nathalis iole   Dainty Sulphur    lycaenidae   Atlides halesus   Great Purple Hairstreak       Callophrys henrici   Henry's Elfin       Strymon melinus   Gray Hairstreak    hesperiidae   Erynnis horatius   Horace's Duskywing       Pyrgus philetas   Desert Checkered-skipper       Pyrgus communis/albescens   Common/White Checkered-skipper    noctuidae   Lacinipolia erecta   Moth       Acronicta lepetita   Dagger Moth       Galgula partita   The Wedgling       Cissusa sp.   Moth       Apamea sp.   Moth       Xerociris wilsonii   Wilson's Wood-nymph    geometridae   Horisme intestinata   Brown Bark Carpet       Eupithecia bolterii   Pug       Chlorochlamys chloroleucaria   Blackberry Looper Moth       Phigalia strigataria   Small Phigalia       Phigalia titea   The Halfwing       Lycia ypsilon   Woolly Gray       Iridopsis defectaria   Brown-shaded Gray Moth    lacturidae   Lactura sp.   Moth    nolidae   Meganola minuscula   Confused Meganola    notodontidae   Lochmaeus bilineata   Double-lined Prominent    elachistidae   Ethmia semilugens   Ethmia Moth    unknown family   Unknown sp.   Moth (eggs)    pterophoridae   Unknown sp.   Plume Moth (larva)    tortricidae   Pseudexentera spoliana   Leafroller Moth       Chimoptesis pennsylvaniana   Filigreed Moth    sphingidae   Hyles lineata   White-lined Sphinx    copromorphidae   Ellabella editha   Tropical Fruitworm Moth coleoptera   coccinellidae   Harmonia axyridis   Multi-colored Asian Ladybird       Coccinella septempunctata   Seven-spotted Ladybird    chrysomelidae   Asphaera lustrans   Flea Beetle       Omophoita cyanipennis   Flea Beetle    scarabaeidae   Euphoria inda   Hairy Flower Scarab hemiptera   reduviidae   Zelus luridus   Assassin Bug    miridae   Lopidea major   Plant Bug (nymph)    lygaeidae   Nysius sp.   False Chinch Bug (adult & nymph) hymenoptera   vespidae   Polistes exclamans   Paper Wasp       Polistes carolina   Red Wasp    crabronidae   Liris sp.   Cricket Wasp    cynipidae   Unknown sp.   Gall Wasp    ichneumonidae   Unknown sp.   Ichneumon    formicidae   Solenopsis invicta   Imported Fire Ant    apidae   Apis mellifera   Honey Bee       Ceratina sp.   Small Carpenter Bee    unknown family   Unknown sp.   Bee diptera   syrphidae   Toxomerus marginatus   Flower Fly       Copestylum tamaulipanum   Flower fly    tipulidae   Tipula sp.   Crane Fly    scathophagidae   Unknown sp.   Dung Fly orthoptera   acrididae   Eritettix abortivus   Texas Short-winged Slant-faced Grasshopper       Chortophaga viridifasciata   Northern Green-striped Grasshopper (adult & nymph)       Lactista aztecus   Aztec Bandwing (adult & nymph)    tettigoniidae   Scudderia furcata   Fork-tailed Bush Katydid (nymph) araneae   lycosidae   Rabidosa rabida   Rabid Wolf Spider    dictynidae   Dictyna sp.   Meshweb Weaver