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For 100 x, I chose 100 insects . . . but because 100 species of insects would locally be way too easy a challenge (I may have gotten 200 just this week), I elected to do ten of ten subject categories. Here are the first five of the second five sets (bees, wasps, true bugs, beetles, and "baby bugs"). Links to individual photos follow.
Top row, bees: 1. bee on white trout lily, 2. bee on yarrow, 3. small bee on flowers, 4. bumblebee on flower, 5. sweat bee on flower.
Second row, wasps: 6. paper wasp on her nest, 7. wasp on plant, 8. hunting wasp, 9. wasp on mountain mint, 10. multi-colored small wasp.
Third row, true bugs: 11. buffalo tree hopper, charging view, 12. plant hopper, 13. jagged ambush bug with bee prey, 14. orange assassin bug with caterpillar prey, 15. leafhopper emergence 4.
Fourth row, beetles: 16. beetle jaws, 17. beetle laying eggs on lily pad, 18. short-winged blister beetle, 19. rose chafer, 20. shiny beetle.
Bottom row, juvenile insects: 21. small grasshopper, 22. Macro Monday's m's, 23. baby mantis, 24. caterpillar, reflected, 25. hatching beetle eggs.
An early bumblebee (Bombus pratorum) taking advantage of the burgeoning lesser celandines in the warm sun.
This picture was taken by some rocks in our garden. I found an ant crawling around there. You can see its three sets of legs and segmented body that are characteristic of an insect.
Episode 6, Part 1 of 2.
Another Scale Insect from the bay tree in the garden. This piscture shows the dark larval form of a parasitoid, and the picture below shows the same cocoon after a wasp has eclosed. It was collected on 28th March and eclosion occurred on 10th April