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One of several hanging around the small pond at the entrance, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center...

Mason wasp, I think, on an expired flower...

Yet another of these colorful little critters, this time at the very top of a hardy hibiscus plant...

Plains bee assassin, specifically, Apiomerus crassipes. They "stalk flowering plants that are visited by bees, flies, and other pollinating insects." This one seen lurking on a flower in the Lady Bird Johnson Wldflower Center...

Cyrtolobus sp., most likely. Weird little critters...

It'll be a salt marsh moth when it grows up. It was surprising to see this one apparently by itself - they usually seem to show up in groups...

Some bugs around the house - this guy was big too. He is half the size of a cantaloupe leaf. So about 3.5 - 4 centimeters.

One more look at one of our resident little pink moths...

We were enjoying a lunch on the patio at the wonderful Leaning Pear restaurant (Wimberley, TX) when this tawny emperor joined us and hung out for a while...

A pair hanging out in the hibiscus bud...

"Short-horned" grasshopper, says the Seek app...

On a mistflower, false dragonheads in the background...

Same bee from previous photo! Just a different POV ;0)

I was looking at some pigeonberry flowers in the garden when I noticed movment on the ground next to me...

This crab was lurking in a purslane flower, and managed to snag a good meal...

A honeybee in an elbowbush, at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, for Beautiful Bug Butt Thursday - HBBBT!

On a "snow on the mountain" flower...

It looks much less fierce from the front don't you think?

First of these I've seen in years - on a statue in Zilker Botanical Garden...

This four-speckled hoverfly stands on the summit of a gaura plant in the garden - Happy Fly Day Friday!

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