This morning dawned cool, sunny and breezy, which delighted our party of seven. The odd color of the leaf-footed bug nymph shown below is due to its having just molted. It will turn brown within an hour. A highlight was finding a dryinid wasp (the wingless female is an ant mimic) laying her eggs into a paralyzed leafhopper. Due to the small size of the subjects and the limits of our eyesight, we thought at first that the wasp was eating the leafhopper! Upon magnification, the true story was more obvious. Select Photos and Complete List of Sightings: Aedes albopictus (Asian tiger mosquito) photo by Val Bugh Villa sp. (bee fly) photo by Val Bugh Copestylum tamaulipanum (flower fly) photo by Val Bugh Acrolophus cressoni (tubeworm moth) photo by Val Bugh Tarache phecolisca (moth) photo by Val Bugh Sparganothis diluticostana (spring dead-leaf roller moth) photo by Val Bugh Systasea pulverulenta (Texas powdered-skipper, larva) photo by Val Bugh Copaeodes aurantiaca (orange skipperling) photo by Val Bugh Brachynemurus sp. (antlion) photo by Val Bugh Apiomerus spissipes (bee assassin in hunting mode) photo by Val Bugh Leptoglossus sp. (leaf-footed bug, nymph, just molted) photo by Val Bugh Gerstaeckeria sp. (weevil) photo by Val Bugh Strangalia virilis (flower longhorn) photo by Val Bugh Trichiotinus texanus (rear-end view of Texas flower scarab) photo by Val Bugh Unknown sp. (digger bee) photo by Val Bugh Unknown sp. (dryinid wasp ovipositing in leafhopper) photo by Val Bugh Rabidosa rabida (rabid wolf spider) photo by Val Bugh Trachemys scripta elegans (red-eared slider) photo by Val Bugh Chrysemys picta (painted turtle) photo by Val Bugh Birds: Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) Bewick's Wren (Thryomanes bewickii) Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) Black-chinned Hummingbird (Archilochus alexandri) Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata) Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater) Carolina Chickadee (Poecile carolinensis) Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus) Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe) European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) Great-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) Lesser Goldfinch (Spinus psaltria) Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris) Titmouse (Baeolophus sp.) Western Scrub-jay (Aphelocoma californica) White-winged Dove (Zenaida asiatica) Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus) Mammals: Hispid Cotton Rat (Sigmodon hispidus), dead Eastern Fox Squirrel (Sciurus niger) Eastern Cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus) White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) Reptiles: Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta) Red-eared Slider (Trachemys scripta elegans) Misc.: Pillbug (Armadillidium vulgare) Harvestman (Unknown sp.) Flat-backed Millipede (Unknown sp.) Insects & Spiders: order family genus/species common name lepidoptera   nymphalidae   Danaus gilippus   Queen       Danaus plexippus   Monarch       Phyciodes texana   Texan Crescent    papilionidae   Papilio glaucus   Eastern Tiger Swallowtail    lycaenidae   Hemiargus isola   Reakirt's Blue       Leptotes marina   Marine Blue    pieridae   Eurema nicippe   Sleepy Orange       Colias cesonia   Southern Dogface    hesperiidae   Hylephila phyleus   Fiery Skipper       Copaeodes aurantiaca   Orange Skipperling       Atalopedes campestris   Sachem       Euphyes vestris   Dun Skipper       Epargyreus clarus   Silver-spotted Skipper       Systasea pulverulenta   Texas Powdered-skipper (larva)       Erynnis horatius   Horace's Duskywing       Erynnis funeralis   Funereal Duskywing    noctuidae   Cydosia aurivitta   Straight-lined Cydosia       Tripudia quadrifera   Moth       Ponometia candefacta   Olive-shaded Bird Dropping Moth       Tarache phecolisca   Moth    arctiidae   Hypoprepia miniata   Scarlet-winged Lichen Moth    saturniidae   Hyalophora cecropia   Cecropia Moth (larva & cocoon)    geometridae   Digrammia californiaria   Moth       Macaria aequiferaria   Woody Angle       Glenoides texanaria   Texas Gray Moth       Pimaphera percata   Moth    crambidae   Aethiophysa lentiflualis   Moth       Glaphyria sequistrialis   White-roped Glaphyria       Pyrausta inornatalis   Inornate Pyrausta Moth    pyralidae   Peoria tetradella   Grass-veneer Moth       Ephestiodes sp.   Moth       Salebriaria pumilella   Moth    tortricidae   Sparganothis diluticostana   Spring Dead-leaf Roller Moth    acrolophidae   Acrolophus texanella   Texas Tubeworm Moth       Acrolophus cressoni   Tubeworm Moth    zygaenidae   Harrisina coracina   Grapeleaf Skeletonizer Moth       Acoloithus novaricus   False Skeletonizer (larva)    coleophoridae   Mompha sp.   Moth       Blastobasis sp.   Moth    oecophoridae   Inga sparsiciliella   Black-marked Inga    gelechiidae   Isophrictis similiella   Moth coleoptera   chrysomelidae   Asphaera lustrans   Flea Beetle       Donacia sp.   Aquatic Leaf Beetle    coccinellidae   Hippodamia convergens   Convergent Ladybird       Harmonia axyridis   Multicolored Asian Ladybird       Olla v-nigrum   Ashy Gray Ladybird    cerambycidae   Moneilema armatum   Cactus Longhorn       Strangalia virilis   Flower Longhorn    buprestidae   Acmaeodera ornatoides   Metallic Woodborer    scarabaeidae   Trichiotinus texanus   Texas Flower Scarab       Euphoria kernii   Flower Scarab       Diplotaxis sp.   Scarab    tenebrionidae   Eleodes goryi   Darkling Beetle    attelabidae   Homoeolabus analis   Oak Leaf Roller (larva)    anthribidae   Trigonorhinus limbatus   Fungus Weevil    curculionidae   Sitona californius   Broad-nosed Weevil       Cylindrocopturus sp.   Weevil       Gerstaeckeria sp.   Weevil hemiptera   coreidae   Acanthocephala terminalis   Coreid Bug (adult & nymph)       Leptoglossus sp.   Leaf-footed Bug (nymph)       Leptoglossus phyllopus   Eastern Leaf-footed Bug       Chelinidea vittiger   Opuntia Bug (adult & nymph)       Hypselonotus punctiventris   Coreid Bug    lygaeidae   Nysius sp.   False Chinch Bug (adult & nymph)    rhyparochromidae   Ozophora picturata   Seed Bug    rhopalidae   Jadera haematoloma   Red-shouldered Bug       Arhyssus sp.   Scentless Plant Bug    miridae   Phytocoris sp.   Plant Bug    reduviidae   Apiomerus spissipes   Bee Assassin       Zelus renardii   Assassin Bug (nymph)    pentatomidae   Euschistus servus   Brown Stink Bug       Banasa dimiata   Stink Bug homoptera   cicadellidae   Homalodisca vitripennis   Glassy-winged Sharpshooter       Gyponana sp.   Leafhopper    acanaloniidae   Acanalonia conica   Planthopper    cercopidae   Lepyronia quadrangularis   Spittlebug       Clastoptera sp.   Spittlebug hymenoptera   apidae   Apis mellifera   Honey Bee       Unknown sp.   Digger Bee       Anthophora abrupta   Digger Bee       Xylocopa virginica   Eastern Carpenter Bee    halictidae   Unknown sp.   Green Sweat Bee       Unknown sp.   Sweat Bee    megachilidae   Megachile sp.   Leaf-cutter Bee       Lithurgus sp.   Leaf-cutter Bee       Stelis sp.   Bee       Anthidiellum sp.   Bee    vespidae   Polistes metricus   Paper Wasp       Polistes carolina   Red Wasp       Polistes sp.   Paper Wasp       Vespula squamosa   Southern Yellowjacket (queen)    sphecidae   Prionyx sp.   Thread-waisted Wasp       Ammophila sp.   Thread-waisted Wasp       Sphex ichneumoneus   Great Golden Digger Wasp       Chalybion sp.   Blue Mud Dauber    dryinidae   Unknown sp.   Dryinid Wasp diptera   syrphidae   Palpada furcata   Flower Fly       Copestylum tamaulipanum   Flower Fly       Copestylum mexicana   Black Flower Fly       Copestylum marginatum   Flower Fly    bombyliidae   Villa sp.   Bee Fly    asilidae   Atomosia sp.   Robber Fly    culicidae   Aedes albopictus   Asian Tiger Mosquito    calliphoridae   Lucilia sp.   Blow Fly    tachinidae   Unknown sp.   Tachinid Fly odonata   coenagrionidae   Ischnura ramburii   Rambur's Forktail       Argia fumipennis   Variable Dancer    libellulidae   Libellula croceipennis   Neon Skimmer       Erythemis simplicicollis   Eastern Pondhawk       Tramea sp.   Saddlebags       Pachydiplax longipennis   Blue Dasher orthoptera   acrididae   Melanoplus sp.   Spur-throated Grasshopper (nymph)       Melanoplus ponderosus   Ponderous Grasshopper (nymph)    gryllidae   Oecanthus sp.   Tree Cricket (nymph) neuroptera   myrmeleontidae   Brachynemurus sp.   Antlion    ascalaphidae   Ululodes macleayanus   Owlfly araneae   salticidae   Phidippus audax   Bold Jumper       Phidippus carolinensis   Carolina Jumper       Phidippus arizonensis   Arizona Jumper    araneidae   Argiope aurantia   Black and Yellow Garden Spider    thomisidae   Mecaphesa sp.   Crab Spider    lycosidae   Rabidosa rabida   Rabid Wolf Spider