A team of five completed this week's survey under cool, windy and drizzly conditions. The paper wasp shown below has just started her colony and is guarding the eggs she laid. She alone built the first cells of the nest and will hunt to feed the grubs until they are mature, at which point they become the workers who will take over those chores. Select Photos and Complete List of Sightings: Hyalophora cecropia (Cecropia moths mating) photo by Val Bugh Zale lunata (lunate zale) photo by Val Bugh Vanessa atalanta (red admiral) photo by Val Bugh Vanessa virginiensis (American lady larva) photo by Val Bugh Episemasia cervinaria (moth larva) photo by Val Bugh Schistocerca nitens (bird grasshopper nymph) photo by Val Bugh Lactista aztecus (Aztec bandwing nymph) photo by Val Bugh Pediodectes haldemani (Haldeman's shieldback nymph) photo by Val Bugh Rhagonycha lineola (soldier beetle) photo by Barbara Ribble Cuerna costalis (leafhopper) photo by Val Bugh Phytocoris sp. (plant bug) photo by Val Bugh Lopidea major (plant bug nymph) photo by Val Bugh Unknown sp. (gall wasp) photo by Val Bugh Polistes exclamans (paper wasp guarding nest with eggs) photo by Val Bugh Rabdotus sp. (land snail) photo by Val Bugh Colonus hesperus (jumping spider) photo by Val Bugh Opheodrys aestivus (rather wet rough green snake) photo by Barbara Ribble Birds: Bewick's Wren (Thryomanes bewickii) Black-bellied Whistling Duck(Dendrocygna autumnalis) Black-crested Titmouse (Baeolophus atricristatus) Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus) Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe) Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus) Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys) White-eyed Vireo (Vireo griseus) White-winged Dove (Zenaida asiatica) Reptiles & Amphibians: Rough Green Snake (Opheodrys aestivus) Rio Grande Leopard Frog (Rana berlandiera), adult & tadpoles Misc.: Julid Millipede (Aniulus sp.) Pillbug (Armadillidium vulgare) Land Snail (Rabdotus sp.) Land Snail (Mesodon sp.) Land Snail (Succinea sp.) Garden Snail (Otala lactea) Insects & Spiders: order family genus/species common name lepidoptera   nymphalidae   Vanessa atalanta   Red Admiral       Vanessa virginiensis   American Lady (larva)       Junonia coenia   Common Buckeye (larva)    pieridae   Eurema nicippe   Sleepy Orange (larva)       Nathalis iole   Dainty Sulphur    lycaenidae   Callophrys henrici   Henry's Elfin    hesperiidae   Lerema accius   Clouded Skipper (larva)    noctuidae   Psaphida resumens   Figure-eight Sallow       Megalographa biloba   Bilobed Looper Moth       Micrathetis triplex   Moth    erebidae   Cissusa spadix   Moth       Zale lunata   Lunate Zale    saturniidae   Hyalophora cecropia   Cecropia Moth    geometridae   Digrammia pallidata   Moth       Digrammia atrofasciata   Moth       Pero meskaria   Moth       Lycia ypsilon   Woolly Gray       Phigalia titea   The Halfwing       Phigalia strigataria   Small Phigalia       Orthonama obstipata   The Gem       Episemasia cervinaria   Moth (larva)       Tornos scolopacinaria   Dimorphic Gray       Eupithecia miserulata   Common Eupithecia       Eupithecia bolterii   Moth    crambidae   Udea rubigalis   Celery Leaftier Moth       Urola nivalis   Snowy Urola    tortricidae   Pseudexentera spoliana   Leafroller Moth    elachistidae   Ethmia semilugens   Ethmia Moth coleoptera   cantharidae   Rhagonycha lineola   Soldier Beetle       Ditemnus perforatus   Soldier Beetle hemiptera   miridae   Lopidea major   Plant Bug (nymph)       Phytocoris sp.   Plant Bug homoptera   cicadellidae   Cuerna costalis   Leafhopper hymenoptera   apidae   Apis mellifera   Honey Bee    vespidae   Polistes exclamans   Paper Wasp    cynipidae   Unknown sp.   Gall Wasp diptera   anthomyiidae   Unknown sp.   Root Maggot Fly    tachinidae   Unknown sp.   Tachinid Fly    tipulidae   Tipula sp.   Crane Fly orthoptera   acrididae   Lactista aztecus   Aztec Bandwing (adult & nymph)       Schistocerca nitens   Gray Bird Grasshopper (nymph)    tettigoniidae   Dichopetala catinata   Spoon-tailed Short-winged Katydid (nymph)       Pediodectes haldemani   Haldeman's Shieldback (nymph) neuroptera   chrysopidae   Unknown sp.   Green Lacewing araneae   salticidae   Colonus hesperus   Jumping Spider