hmmm...

I wonder why she is so fat.

Inchworm

This little guy was climbing up a tulip leaf. I can see why inchworms move as they do; they have feet only on the front and back ends. If all goes well, by summer this one will have turned into a pretty, brown geometer moth. I have seen lots of them around.

A Nymph

On the edge of a periwinkle petal was this baby insect, a nymph. Its wings are almost transparent, reflecting the blue of the flower. A human changes a lot from three months old to twenty-one years, and an insect also changes a lot before it becomes an adult. Can you tell what it is?

Cicada Killer

Trip took this cool picture this summer. It is a big cicada killer wasp with her even bigger prey.

Peeping Skipper

Writing Spider @ Work

This pretty female writing spider was hanging in the branches of my big, sweet smelling gardenia bush. I took her picture. Then about fifteen minutes later, I went to see her again. She had just captured what, I believe, must be a bee. Apparently she rolled her long, thick, zigzagged web around the big bee body as a shroud.

Here's looking at you, Mantis.

Blue Darner?

pretty colors

It may be another leafhopper.

A Common Little Fellow

what??

I know it is an insect because I watched it hop - or fly - several times. But where is its face? Do you think it is a type of moth?

I think . . .

this is a male writing spider. They are brownish and smaller than the colorful females.

Bees Love Sunflowers

A Leafhopper of a Different Color

Good job, Wasp!

As you can tell by the wasp's shadow, it is about noon on this sunny summer day. He had found something on this sunflower leaf to enjoy for lunch, and I think it was a hornworm. They are pesky creatures, and now I know they were responsible for the munching of the sunflower leaves.

I love little grasshoppers!

Is it a bee or a fly?

A Spider in its Web

Designed by the Creator

On a sunflower leaf. It is shaped like a stinkbug.

One of the millions of tiny insects

This is one of those tiny flying moth creatures, here staying still on a mint leaf looking curiously at me. I think the fuzzy tusk-like appendages are interesting. I wonder if it is a young insect or a mature one, and what is it?

Aphids

On a pretty tulip. Who knew?

itsy bitsy spider

This tiny orb spider was scurrying back and forth on fine, fine webbing that looked like violin strings (on very close look) strung between two limbs of a tree. But this picture makes the itsy bitsy orb spider look as if it is fsuspended in air.

Carolina Mantid

An interesting creature.

Chillin' in a day lily

It will be a few months until spring when bug season begins again, so I will let this little fellow sit atop my blog til then.

Daddy Long Legs

A Bug of Several Colors

This bug is eating my basil! What will I do for my pizza?

A Moth

I can tell this is a moth because of the feathery antenna, but what is its name?

A Gray Hairstreak Butterfly

September seems to be a good month for butterflies.

Big Daddy Grasshopper

Awesome!

An Eerie Arachnid

Baby Grasshopper

Itty Bitty Blue Butterfly

This tiny butterfly looked almost too pretty to be real.

UFO

Mating Leafhoppers

Some bugs are called PESTS!

I don't know what these are but I know I don't like them.

Katydid

This insect surprised me! It looked just like the leaf it was on.
Those things hanging from its mouth work like an extra pair of hands.

Stinkbug

A tiny gastropod stopped by to visit Bugs R Cool

This little snail was under a rock and looked only like a shell - until it stuck its neck out and started moving. (It is not a bug.)

Black and White Spider

I think it is a jumping spider.

Young grasshopper

Young grasshoppers are called nymphs. Since their wings aren't developed, they can't fly and only hop. This one has long antennae and therefore is considered a long horned grasshopper.

Milkweed Bug

What big eyes you have, Miss Dragonfly.

Bee with pollen sac

on a fuzzy lamb's ear.

ladybugs come in a variety of colors

It's a big world out there.

Pretty Fan-ny

She was a visitor to the inside of the house.

A marmalade hoverfly

Ailanthus Webworm Moth

chugging along

It will turn into a black swallowtail butterfly soon.