Five volunteers participated in this week's survey under warm and heavily overcast conditions. Because solitary wasps, unlike those of social species, cannot continually provide fresh food as their babies grow, they must instead provision each nest when they create it. The Great Golden Digger Wasp shown below is dragging a katydid that she has paralyzed into a hole she has just excavated. She will never return to the nest, but when her egg hatches, the wasp larva will dine on the immobilized insect. Select Photos and Complete List of Sightings: Eleodes goryi (darkling beetle) photo by Val Bugh Flohria subcoerulea (rove beetle) photo by Harriett Wolf Haplorhynchites sp. (flower weevil) photo by Val Bugh Ataxia hubbardi (long-horned beetle) photo by Val Bugh Strangalia virilis (flower longhorn) photo by Val Bugh Lucilia sp. (blow fly) photo by Val Bugh Boopedon gracile (graceful range grasshopper nymph) photo by Val Bugh Sphex ichneumoneus (great golden digger wasp dragging paralyzed shieldback nymph) photo by Val Bugh Ceresa sp. & Neokolla dolobrata (treehopper & leafhopper) photo by Val Bugh Cuerna costalis (leafhopper) photo by Val Bugh Xerophloea minor (leafhopper) photo by Val Bugh Dictyonissus griphus (issid planthopper nymph) photo by Val Bugh Unknown sp. (geometrid moth larva, or inchworm) photo by Val Bugh Hyalophora cecropia (Cecropia moth larva) photo by Val Bugh Lipocosma polingi (moth) photo by Val Bugh Cudonigera houstonana (juniper budworm moth) photo by Val Bugh Capperia raptor (plume moth) photo by Val Bugh Papilio cresphontes (giant swallowtail) photo by Val Bugh Danaus gilippus (queen) photo by Val Bugh Phidippus audax (bold jumper) photo by Val Bugh Birds: Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) Bewick's Wren (Thryomanes bewickii) Black-crested Titmouse (Baeolophus atricristatus) Carolina Chickadee (Poecile carolinensis) Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus) Chimney Swift (Chaetura pelagica) Great-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) Hummingbird (Archilochus sp.) Lesser Goldfinch (Spinus psaltria) Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris) Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) White-eyed Vireo (Vireo griseus) White-winged Dove (Zenaida asiatica) Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus) Mammals: Eastern Fox Squirrel (Sciurus niger) Insects & Spiders: order family genus/species common name lepidoptera   nymphalidae   Junonia coenia   Common Buckeye (adult & larva)       Danaus gilippus   Queen       Agraulis vanillae   Gulf Fritillary       Euptoieta claudia   Variegated Fritillary       Vanessa virginiensis   American Lady       Vanessa atalanta   Red Admiral    pieridae   Nathalis iole   Dainty Sulphur       Eurema lisa   Little Yellow       Eurema nicippe   Sleepy Orange       Phoebis sennae   Cloudless Sulphur    lycaenidae   Hemiargus isola   Reakirt's Blue       Satyrium favonius   Oak Hairstreak       Atlides halesus   Great Purple Hairstreak    papilionidae   Papilio polyxenes   Black Swallowtail       Papilio cresphontes   Giant Swallowtail    hesperiidae   Pyrgus communis/albescens   Common/White Checkered-skipper       Erynnis horatius   Horace's Duskywing       Euphyes vestris   Dun Skipper    noctuidae   Ponometia candefacta   Olive-shaded Bird Dropping Moth       Ponometia phecolisca   Bird Dropping Moth       Ponometia fasciatella   Moth       Tarache quadriplaga   Bird Dropping Moth       Plusiodonta compressipalpis   Moonseed Moth       Catabena lineolata   Fine-lined Sallow    arctiidae   Estigmene acrea   Saltmarsh Moth (larva)       Virbia sp.   Moth       Hypercompe scribonia   Great Leopard Moth (larva)    saturniidae   Hyalophora cecropia   Cecropia Moth (larva)    geometridae   Cyclophora nanaria   Dwarf Tawny Wave       Lobocleta ossularia   Drab Brown Wave       Eubaphe unicolor   Moth       Pimaphera percata   Moth       Eupithecia miserulata   Common Pug (larva)       Nemoria zygotaria   Emerald       Chlorochlamys chloroleucaria   Blackberry Looper (adult & larva)       Unknown sp.   Inchworm (larva)       Glena quinquelinearia   Five-lined Glena       Rindgea cyda   Moth    crambidae   Lipocosma polingi   Moth       Diastictis fracturalis   Moth       Mimoschinia rufofascialis   Moth       Glaphyria sequistrialis   White-roped Glaphyria    pyralidae   Homoeosoma electella   Sunflower Moth       Galasa nigrinodis   Boxwood Leaftier Moth       Ephestiodes sp.   Moth    tortricidae   Aethes seriatana   Serieated Aethes Moth       Cudonigera houstonana   Juniper Budworm Moth    pterophoridae   Capperia raptor   Plume Moth       Unknown sp.   Plume Moth    gelechiidae   Polyhymno luteostrigella   Moth       Dichomeris costarufoella   Moth       Isophrictis similiella   Moth    lacturidae   Lactura sp.   Moth    glyphidoceridae   Glyphidocera lactiflosella   Five-spotted Glyphidocera    acrolophidae   Acrolophus texanella   Tubeworm Moth coleoptera   coccinellidae   Hippodamia convergens   Convergent Ladybird       Harmonia axyridis   Multi-colored Asian Ladybird       Coccinella septempunctata   Seven-spotted Ladybird       Olla v-nigrum   Ashy Gray Ladybird       Scymnus sp.   Ladybird Beetle (larva)    chrysomelidae   Diabrotica undecimpunctata   Spotted Cucumber Beetle       Colaspis sp.   Leaf Beetle       Asphaera lustrans   Flea Beetle    cerambycidae   Ataxia hubbardi   Long-horned Beetle       Strangalia virilis   Flower Longhorn    elateridae   Unknown sp.   Click Beetle    tenebrionidae   Eleodes goryi   Darkling Beetle       Eleodes fusiformis   Darkling Beetle    buprestidae   Acmaeodera ornatoides   Metallic Woodborer    cleridae   Cymatodera sp.   Checkered Beetle    staphylinidae   Flohria subcoerulea   Rove Beetle    hybosoridae   Hybosorus illigeri   Scavenger Scarab    attelabidae   Haplorhynchites sp.   Flower Weevil hemiptera   coreidae   Leptoglossus phyllopus   Eastern Leaf-footed Bug       Leptoglossus sp.   Leaf-footed Bug (nymph)       Hypselonotus punctiventris   Coreid Bug       Acanthocephala terminalis   Coreid Bug (adult & nymph)    rhyparochromidae   Ozophora picturata   Seed Bug    lygaeidae   Oncopeltus fasciatus   Large Milkweed Bug    miridae   Prepops sp.   Plant Bug       Poecilocapsus lineatus   Four-lined Plant Bug       Calocoris barberi   Plant Bug (nymph)    gerridae   Unknown sp.   Water Strider (adult & nymph)    reduviidae   Zelus renardii   Assassin Bug (adult & nymph)       Sinea sp.   Spined Assassin Bug    pentatomidae   Chinavia hilare   Green Stink Bug       Euschistus sp.   Stink Bug (nymph)       Euschistus servus   Brown Stink Bug       Chlorochroa ligata   Conchuela (nymph) homoptera   cicadellidae   Neokolla dolobrata   Leafhopper       Cuerna costalis   Leafhopper       Homalodisca sp.   Sharpshooter (nymph)       Homalodisca vitripennis   Glassy-winged Sharpshooter       Ollarianus strictus   Leafhopper       Xerophloea minor   Leafhopper    membracidae   Ceresa sp.   Treehopper    issidae   Dictyonissus griphus   Planthopper (nymph) hymenoptera   apidae   Apis mellifera   Honey Bee       Centris atripes   Digger Bee       Xylocopa parkinsoniae   Large Carpenter Bee       Xylocopa virginica   Eastern Carpenter Bee    halictidae   Agapostemon sp.   Green Sweat Bee       Lasioglossum sp.   Sweat Bee    andrenidae   Protandrena sp.   Bee    vespidae   Polistes exclamans   Paper Wasp       Polistes metricus   Paper Wasp       Vespula squamosa   Southern Yellowjacket (queen)    sphecidae   Sphex ichneumoneus   Great Golden Digger Wasp    chrysididae   Unknown sp.   Cuckoo Wasp    braconidae   Unknown sp.   Braconid Wasp diptera   syrphidae   Allograpta obliqua   Flower Fly    dolichopodidae   Condylostylus sp.   Long-legged Fly    calliphoridae   Lucilia sp.   Blow Fly odonata   coenagrionidae   Ischnura ramburii   Rambur's Forktail    libellulidae   Libellula croceipennis   Neon Skimmer       Pachydiplax longipennis   Blue Dasher orthoptera   acrididae   Melanoplus ponderosus   Ponderous Grasshopper (nymph)       Lactista aztecus   Aztec Bandwing       Chortophaga viridifasciata   Northern Green-striped Grasshopper (nymph)       Mermiria sp.   Slant-faced Grasshopper (nymph)       Boopedon gracile   Graceful Range Grasshopper (nymph)    tetrigidae   Paratettix mexicanus   Pygmy Grasshopper    tettigoniidae   Scudderia furcata   Fork-tailed Bush Katydid (nymph)       Dichopetala catinata   Spoon-tailed Short-winged Katydid (nymph)       Conocephalus strictus   Straight-lanced Meadow Katydid (nymph)       Pediodectes nigromarginatus   Black-margined Shieldback (nymph)    gryllidae   Unknown sp.   Ground Cricket neuroptera   ascalaphidae   Ululodes macleayanus   Owlfly araneae   thomisidae   Mecaphesa sp.   Crab Spider    oxyopidae   Peucetia viridans   Green Lynx    salticidae   Phidippus carolinensis   Carolina Jumper       Phidippus audax   Bold Jumper    araneidae   Metepeira sp.   Orbweaver