A crew of nineteen contributed to this week's survey under warm and partly sunny conditions. Cuckoos are often synonymous with parasitism in which a female lays her egg in the nest of an unsuspecting host that will subsequently raise the youngster. While a European bird is the source of this infamous behavior (and, by the way, the familiar two-note call that is the basis of the name), the local species shown below does no such thing. Unlike cowbirds, it builds a nest and raises its own young. Select Photos and Complete List of Sightings: Bubo virginianus (great horned owl fledgling) photo by Joe Fernandes Piranga rubra (summer tanager) photo by Annelia Williams Coccyzus americanus (yellow-billed cuckoo) photo by George Ward Aquarius remigis (water strider) photo by Pat Dittmar Aquarius remigis & Acanalonia conica (water strider nymph eating planthopper nymph) photo by Oscar Vaz Hoplistoscelis sp. & Graphocephala hieroglyphica (damsel bug eating leafhopper) photo by Val Bugh Zelus luridus & Unknown sp. (assassin bug nymph eating dark-winged fungus gnat) photo by Dan Hardy Apiomerus spissipes & Nausigaster sp. (bee assassin eating flower fly) photo by Katherine Daniels Araneus pegnia (orbweaver) photo by Barbara Ribble Hadrotettix trifasciatus (three-banded range grasshopper nymph) photo by Sam Fruehling from left to right: Telebasis salva (desert firetail), Ischnura posita (fragile forktail), Argia translata (dusky dancer) photo by George Ward, Beth Kirkhart & Katherine Daniels Wallengrenia otho (southern broken-dash) photo by Julie Shaw Erynnis funeralis (funereal duskywing) photo by James Giroux Schinia mitis (flower moth larva) photo by Linda Crabtree Metria amella (live oak metria larva) photo by Dan Hardy Bombus sonorus (Sonoran bumble bee) photo by Dan Zinn Sphex lucae (digger wasp, male) photo by David Cook Hermetia illucens (black soldier fly) photo by Beth Kirkhart Strangalia virilis (flower longhorn, male) photo by Oscar Vaz Euderces reichei (longhorn beetle) photo by Val Bugh Birds: American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) American Goldfinch (Spinus tristis) American Robin (Turdus migratorius) Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) Bewick's Wren (Thryomanes bewickii) Black-bellied Whistling-duck (Dendrocygna autumnalis) Black-chinned Hummingbird (Archilochus alexandri) Black-crested Titmouse (Baeolophus atricristatus) Blue Grosbeak (Passerina caerulea) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea) Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater) Carolina Chickadee (Poecile carolinensis) Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus) Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis) Chimney Swift (Chaetura pelagica) Cliff Swallow (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) Common Raven (Corvus corax) Common Yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas) Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii) Dickcissel (Spiza americana) Eastern Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus) Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe) Field Sparrow (Spizella pusilla) Great Crested Flycatcher (Myiarchus crinitus) Great Egret (Ardea alba) Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus) Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) Great-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) House Finch (Haemorhous mexicanus) Ladder-backed Woodpecker (Dryobates scalaris) Least Flycatcher (Empidonax minimus) Lesser Goldfinch (Spinus psaltria) Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus) Magnolia Warbler (Dendroica magnolia) Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) Olive-sided Flycatcher (Contopus cooperi) Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris) Purple Martin (Progne subis) Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus) Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) Sharp-shinned Hawk (Accipiter striatus) Summer Tanager (Piranga rubra) Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor) Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) Western Kingbird (Tyrannus verticalis) White-eyed Vireo (Vireo griseus) White-winged Dove (Zenaida asiatica) Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) Woodhouse's Scrub-jay (Aphelocoma woodhouseii) Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus) Mammals: White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) Eastern Fox Squirrel (Sciurus niger) Bobcat (Lynx rufus) Coyote (Canis latrans), fresh scat Reptiles, Amphibians & Fish: Texas Spotted Whiptail (Aspidoscelis gularis gularis) Texas Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus olivaceus) Green Anole (Anolis carolinensis) Redstripe Ribbon Snake (Thamnophis proximus rubrileatus) Red-eared Slider (Trachemys scripta elegans) Rio Grande Leopard Frog (Lithobates berlandieri) Gulf Coast Toad (Incilius nebulifer), tadpoles Great Plains Narrowmouth Toad (Gastrophryne olivacea) Mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) Rio Grande Cichlid (Herichthys cyanoguttatus) Misc.: Harvestman (Leiobunum sp.) Dwarf Gray Striped Isopod (Nagurus cristatus) Decollate Snail (Rumina decollata) Insects & Spiders: order family genus/species common name lepidoptera   nymphalidae   Euptoieta claudia   Variegated Fritillary       Agraulis vanillae   Gulf Fritillary (adult & pupa)       Danaus gilippus   Queen       Danaus plexippus   Monarch       Vanessa virginiensis   American Lady       Junonia coenia   Common Buckeye       Polygonia interrogationis   Question Mark       Asterocampa celtis   Hackberry Emperor (larva)       Asterocampa clyton   Tawny Emperor       Phyciodes texana   Texan Crescent    pieridae   Eurema lisa   Little Yellow       Eurema nicippe   Sleepy Orange       Nathalis iole   Dainty Sulphur       Zerene cesonia   Southern Dogface    papilionidae   Papilio polyxenes   Black Swallowtail (adult & larva)       Papilio cresphontes   Giant Swallowtail (adult & larva)       Battus philenor   Pipevine Swallowtail (adult, pupa & larva)    lycaenidae   Hemiargus isola   Reakirt's Blue       Strymon melinus   Gray Hairstreak       Callophrys gryneus   Juniper Hairstreak       Atlides halesus   Great Purple Hairstreak    hesperiidae   Erynnis funeralis   Funereal Duskywing       Erynnis horatius   Horace's Duskywing       Pyrgus communis/albescens   Common/White Checkered-skipper       Pyrgus philetas   Desert Checkered-skipper       Systasea pulverulenta   Texas Powdered-skipper       Wallengrenia otho   Southern Broken-dash       Atalopedes campestris   Sachem       Lerodea eufala   Eufala Skipper       Copaeodes sp.   Skipperling    noctuidae   Spodoptera ornithogalli   Yellow-striped Armyworm Moth (larva)       Micrathetis triplex   Triplex Cutworm Moth       Ponometia candefacta   Olive-shaded Bird Dropping Moth       Tarache quadriplaga   Bird Dropping Moth       Tarache aprica   Exposed Bird Dropping Moth       Spragueia obatra   Moth       Cobubatha lixiva   Moth       Ogdoconta tacna   Moth       Feltia subterranea   Subterranean Dart (larva)       Agrotis malefida   Rascal Dart       Phosphila miselioides   Spotted Phosphila       Schnia mitis   Flower Moth (larva)       Chloridea virescens   Tobacco Budworm (larva)    erebidae   Aon noctuiformis   Moth       Melipotis indomita   Moth       Melipotis jucunda   Merry Melipotis       Isogona tenuis   Thin-lined Owlet       Hypena scabra   Green Cloverworm Moth       Catocala micronympha   Little Nymph Underwing       Zale edusina   Moth       Metria amella   Live Oak Metria (larva)    arctiidae   Estigmene acrea   Salt Marsh Moth (larva)       Hypoprepia fucosa   Painted Lichen Moth       Euerythra phasma   Red-tailed Specter    notodontidae   Heterocampa astartoides   Prominent       Litodonta hydromeli   Prominent    sphingidae   Hemaris diffinis   Snowberry Clearwing (larva)       Hyles lineata   White-lined Sphinx (larva)    saturniidae   Hyalophora cecropia   Cecropia Moth (larva)    geometridae   Digrammia pallidata   Moth       Digrammia atrofasciata   Moth       Glena quinquelinearia   Five-lined Glena       Iridopsis defectaria   Brown-shaded Gray Moth       Glenoides texanaria   Texas Gray Moth (adult & larva)       Euchlaena marginaria   Ochre Euchlaena       Prochoerodes lineola   Large Maple Spanworm Moth       Chlorochlamys chloroleucaria   Blackberry Looper (larva)       Nemoria zygotaria   Emerald       Pimaphera sparsaria   Moth       Unknown sp.   Moth (larva)    crambidae   Urola nivalis   Snowy Urola       Pyrausta laticlavia   Southern Purple Mint Moth       Pyrausta pseuderosnealis   Pyrausta Moth       Achyra rantalis   Garden Webworm Moth       Uresiphita reversalis   Genista Caterpillar (adult & larva)       Lipocosma polingi   Moth       Glaphyria sesquistrialis   White-roped Glaphyria       Aethiophysa invisalis   Moth       Nomophila nearctica   Lucerne Moth       Parapediasia teterrella   Bluegrass Webworm Moth       Eoreuma densella   Wainscot Grass-veneer Moth       Euchromius ocelleus   Grass-veneer Moth       Microcrambus croesus   Grass-veneer Moth       Fissicrambus sp.   Grass-veneer Moth    pyralidae   Hypsopygia olinalis   Yellow-fringed Dolichomia       Adelphia petrella   Moth       Homoeosoma electella   Sunflower Moth (adult & larva)       Ephestiodes infimella   Moth       Anderida peorinella   Grass-veneer Moth    tortricidae   Eumarozia malachitana   Sculptured Moth       Epiblema abruptana   Leafroller Moth       Sereda tautana   Speckled Sereda Moth       Ancylis comptana   Strawberry Leafroller Moth       Platynota flavedana   Black-shaded Platynota Moth       Platynota idaeusalis   Tufted Apple Bud Moth       Platphalonidia magdalenae   Moth       Unknown sp.   Leafroller (larva)    gelechiidae   Aristotelia rubidella   Moth       Aristotelia sp.   Moth       Isophrictis similiella   Moth       Battaristis concinnusella   Moth       Gnorimoschema saphirinella   Moth       Telphusa perspicua   Moth       Polyhymno luteostrigella   Moth       Dichomeris costarufoella   Moth       Chionodes trichostola   Moth    depressariidae   Ethmia semilugens   Ethmia Moth    oecophoridae   Inga cretacea   Chalky Inga    blastobasidae   Hypatopa punctiferella   Moth    cosmopterigidae   Cosmopterix sp.   Moth       Stilbosis sp.   Moth       Teladoma sp.   Moth       Perimede falcata   Moth    momphidae   Mompha sp.   Moth    lacturidae   Lactura subfervens   Moth    pterophoridae   Adaina ambrosiae   Ambrosia Plume Moth    zygaenidae   Acoloithus novaricus   False Skeletonizer Moth    acrolophidae   Acrolophus cressoni   Tubeworm Moth       Acrolophus griseus   Tubeworm Moth       Acrolophus texanella   Texas Tubeworm Moth       Acrolophus heppneri   Tubeworm Moth coleoptera   chrysomelidae   Asphaera lustrans   Flea Beetle       Anomoea flavokansiensis   Leaf Beetle       Brachypnoea sp.   Leaf Beetle    coccinellidae   Coccinella septempunctata   Seven-spotted Lady Beetle       Cycloneda sanguinea   Red Lady Beetle    buprestidae   Acmaeodera ornatoides   Metallic Woodborer       Acmaeodera mixta   Metallic Woodborer    cerambycidae   Strangalia virilis   Flower Longhorn       Stenosphenus dolorosus   Longhorn Beetle       Euderces reichei   Longhorn Beetle    carabidae   Bembidion impotens   Ground Beetle       Dyschirius abbreviatus   Ground Beetle       Dromochorus belfragei   Tiger Beetle    dytiscidae   Coptotomus venustus   Predaceous Diving Beetle    mordellidae   Mordellistena cervicalis   Tumbling Flower Beetle    tenebrionidae   Eleodes goryi   Desert Stink Beetle    heteroceridae   Heterocerus sp.   Variegated Mud-loving Beetle    meloidae   Nemognatha sp.   Blister Beetle    scarabaeidae   Euphoria kernii   Flower Scarab       Labarrus pseudolividus   Aphodiine Dung Beetle    melyridae   Attalus nigripes   Soft-winged Flower Beetle    erotylidae   Pseudischyrus extricatus   Pleasing Fungus Beetle    lycidae   Lycus fernandezi   Net-winged Beetle    staphylinidae   Philonthus rufulus   Rove Beetle       Carpelimus sp.   Rove Beetle       Ephelinus sp.   Rove Beetle       Lobrathium sp.   Rove Beetle    attelabidae   Haplorhynchites sp.   Flower Weevil    curculionidae   Anthonomus fulvus   Weevil       Smicronyx quadrifer   Weevil hemiptera   coreidae   Acanthocephala terminalis   Coreid Bug (adult & nymph)       Leptoglossus phyllopus   Eastern Leaf-footed Bug (adult & nymph)       Chelinidea vittiger   Opuntia Bug (nymph)    largidae   Largus sp.   Largus Bug    rhopalidae   Harmostes reflexulus   Scentless Plant Bug    lygaeidae   Oncopeltus fasciatus   Large Milkweed Bug (adult & nymph)       Lygaeus kalmii   Small Milkweed Bug       Nysius sp.   False Chinch Bug    rhyparochromidae   Neopamera bilobata   Seed Bug       Cnemodus mavortius   Seed Bug    berytidae   Jalysus sp.   Stilt Bug (adult & nymph)    miridae   Polymerus basalis   Plant Bug       Poecilocapsus lineatus   Four-lined Plant Bug       Calocoris barberi   Plant Bug    veliidae   Microvelia sp.   Small Water Strider (nymph)    gerridae   Aquarius remigis   Water Strider (adult & nymph)    reduviidae   Zelus renardii   Assassin Bug (adult & nymph)       Zelus tetracanthus   Four-spined Assassin Bug (adult & nymph)       Zelus luridus   Assassin Bug (nymph)       Apiomerus spissipes   Bee Assassin    nabidae   Hoplistoscelis sp.   Damsel Bug    pentatomidae   Euschistus sp.   Stink Bug (nymph)       Euschistus servus   Brown Stink Bug       Banasa euchlora   Stink Bug       Chlorochroa ligata   Conchuela (adult & nymph)       Thyanta custator   Stink Bug (adult & nymph)       Chinavia hilaris   Green Stink Bug (nymph)       Murgantia histrionica   Harlequin Bug       Tylospilus acutissimus   Predatory Stink Bug homoptera   cicadellidae   Cuerna costalis   Leafhopper       Agallia constricta   Leafhopper       Norvellina helenae   Leafhopper       Menosoma cincta   Leafhopper       Empoasca sp.   Leafhopper       Graphocephala hieroglyphica   Leafhopper       Draeculacephala sp.   Leafhopper       Sobara palliolata   Leafhopper       Eratoneura sp.   Leafhopper       Graminella nigrifrons   Leafhopper       Exitianus exitiosus   Gray Lawn Leafhopper       Texananus sp.   Leafhopper       Scaphoideus sp.   Leafhopper       Cetexa sp.   Leafhopper       Gyponana sp.   Leafhopper       Homalodisca vitripennis   Glassy-winged Sharpshooter       Unknown sp.   Leafhopper    cercopidae   Prosapia bicincta   Two-lined Spittlebug       Lepyronia quadrangularis   Spittlebug    delphacidae   Chionomus pacificus   Planthopper       Metadelphax propinqua   Planthopper    flatidae   Metcalfa pruinosa   Citrus Planthopper (nymph)    membracidae   Vanduzea sp.   Treehopper (nymph)    acanaloniidae   Acanalonia parva   Planthopper       Acanalonia conica   Planthopper (nymph)    issidae   Fowlerium acuta   Planthopper    cicadidae   Unknown sp.   Cicada (exuviae)    aphididae   Tetraneura sp.   Aphid    coccidae   Pulvinaria sp.   Cottony Scale hymenoptera   apidae   Apis mellifera   Honey Bee       Anthophora californica   Digger Bee       Bombus pensylvanicus   American Bumble Bee       Bombus sonorus   Sonoran Bumble Bee    megachilidae   Megachile sp.   Leaf-cutter Bee       Osmia sp.   Mason Bee       Unknown sp.   Leaf-cutter Bee    andrenidae   Protandrena sp.   Bee    halictidae   Lasioglossum sp.   Sweat Bee       Augochloropsis metallica   Green Sweat Bee    crabronidae   Tachytes sp.   Digger Wasp       Cerceris sp.   Wasp    sphecidae   Chalybion sp.   Blue Mud Dauber       Sphex lucae   Digger Wasp    vespidae   Polistes dorsalis   Paper Wasp       Polistes rubiginosus   Red Wasp       Polistes exclamans   Paper Wasp       Brachygastra mellifica   Mexican Honey Wasp    pompilidae   Pepsis sp.   Tarantula-hawk Wasp       Unknown sp.   Spider Wasp    tiphiidae   Tiphia sp.   Tiphiid Wasp    formicidae   Colobopsis etiolata   Gate-keeper Ant       Pheidole sp.   Big-headed Ant       Brachymyrmex patagonicus   Rover Ant       Nylanderia terricola   Crazy Ant       Atta texana   Texas Leafcutter Ant       Unknown sp.   Ant    eurytomidae   Unknown sp.   Gall Wasp    ichneumonidae   Anomalon sp.   Ichneumon       Trogomorpha trogiformis   Ichneumon       Trogomorpha arrogans   Ichneumon       Unknown sp.   Ichneumon diptera   syrphidae   Copestylum avidum   Flower Fly       Hypocritanus fascipennis   Flower Fly       Nausigaster sp.   Flower Fly       Toxomerus marginatus   Flower Fly    bombyliidae   Villa lateralis   Bee Fly    stratiomyidae   Nemotelus kansensis   Soldier Fly       Hermetia illucens   Black Soldier Fly    asilidae   Atomosia melanopogon   Robber Fly       Promachus hinei   Robber Fly       Unknown sp.   Robber Fly    sarcophagidae   Unknown sp.   Flesh Fly    tachinidae   Trichopoda sp.   Feather-legged Fly       Trichopoda lanipes   Feather-legged Fly       Archytas sp.   Tachinid Fly       Cylindromyia sp.   Tachinid Fly    muscidae   Neomyia cornicina   Fly    calliphoridae   Lucilia sp.   Blow Fly       Lucilia cuprina   Bronze Bottle Fly    dolichopodidae   Condylostylus sp.   Long-legged Fly    tephritidae   Trupanea sp.   Fruit Fly       Dioxyna picciola   Fruit Fly    culicidae   Psorophora cyanescens   Mosquito    chaoboridae   Chaoborus punctipennis   Phantom Midge    cecidomyiidae   Unknown sp.   Gall Midge    ceratopogonidae   Forcipomyia bipunctata   Biting Midge    sciaridae   Unknown sp.   Dark-winged Fungus Gnat    chironomidae   Tanytarsus sp.   Green Midge       Unknown sp.   Midge odonata   libellulidae   Libellula croceipennis   Neon Skimmer       Libellula luctuosa   Widow Skimmer       Erythemis simplicicollis   Eastern Pondhawk       Pachydiplax longipennis   Blue Dasher       Tramea lacerata   Black Saddlebags       Tramea onusta   Red Saddlebags    aeshnidae   Anax junius   Common Green Darner    coenagrionidae   Argia plana   Springwater Dancer       Argia immunda   Kiowa Dancer       Argia translata   Dusky Dancer       Telebasis salva   Desert Firetail       Ischnura ramburii   Rambur's Forktail       Ischnura posita   Fragile Forktail       Enallagma civile   Familiar Bluet orthoptera   acrididae   Melanoplus differentialis   Differential Grasshopper (nymph)       Melanoplus ponderosus   Ponderous Grasshopper (adult & nymph)       Melanoplus flabellatus   Dallas Short-winged Grasshopper (adult & nymph)       Melanoplus femurrubrum   Red-legged Grasshopper       Melanoplus bispinosus   Two-spined Spur-throated Grasshopper       Melanoplus plebejus   Plebeian Grasshopper (nymph)       Paraidemona sp.   Spur-throated Grasshopper       Aidemona azteca   Aztec Spurthroat       Hesperotettix speciosus   Showy Grasshopper (nymph)       Schistocerca lineata   Spotted Bird Grasshopper (nymph)       Schistocerca americana   American Bird Grasshopper       Boopedon gracile   Graceful Range Grasshopper (nymph)       Chortophaga viridifasciata   Northern Green-striped Grasshopper       Lactista aztecus   Aztec Bandwing       Spharagemon cristatum   Ridgeback Grasshopper       Hadrotettix trifasciatus   Three-banded Range Grasshopper (nymph)       Arphia simplex   Plains Yellow-winged Grasshopper    tettigoniidae   Obolopteryx catinata   Spoon-tailed Short-winged Katydid       Scudderia furcata   Fork-tailed Bush Katydid (nymph)       Amblycorypha huasteca   Texas False Katydid       Conocephalus strictus   Straight-lanced Meadow Katydid (nymph)       Pediodectes nigromarginatus   Black-margined Shieldback (adult & nymph)    gryllidae   Gryllus sp.   Field Cricket       Oecanthus varicornis   Tree Cricket (nymph)       Oecanthus sp.   Tree Cricket mantodea   mantidae   Litaneutria minor   Ground Mantis (nymph) blattodea   ectobiidae   Pseudomops septentrionalis   Pale-bordered Field Cockroach neuroptera   chrysopidae   Unknown sp.   Green Lacewing (larva) trichoptera   hydropsychidae   Cheumatopsyche sp.   Net-spinning Caddisfly    leptoceridae   Oecetis inconspicua   Long-horned Caddisfly    philopotamidae   Chimarra sp.   Black Caddisfly araneae   araneidae   Neoscona crucifera   Orbweaver       Neoscona oaxacensis   Orbweaver       Argiope aurantia   Black and Yellow Garden Spider       Araneus pegnia   Orbweaver    salticidae   Phidippus audax   Bold Jumper       Phlegra hentzi   Jumping Spider    oxyopidae   Peucetia viridans   Green Lynx       Oxyopes salticus   Striped Lynx    thomisidae   Mecaphesa sp.   Crab Spider    theridiidae   Anelosimus studiosus   Social Cobweb Weaver    tetragnathidae   Tetragnatha sp.   Longjawed Orbweaver    dictynidae   Dictyna sp.   Meshweb Weaver    theraphosidae   Aphonopelma sp.   Tarantula