I have checked this polypore fungus for several days now for interesting critters. So far nothing, but you never know when something will show up. 🙂
White pollen on the Bumble Bee!
Was Western Leaf-footed Bug (Leptoglossus clypealis) stuck on the Texas Thistle (Cirsium texanum)?
Nope! The resin on the phyllaries was not sticky yet.
At first I didn’t think I was going to get a photo of the Pale Bordered Field Cockroach (Pseudomops septentrionalis) on a willow tree. Then it crawled on my finger. Success! Also the Pale Bordered Field Cockroach only lives outside. So you can admire when you see one!
A tiny spider snared a Laboratory Fruit Fly (Drosophila melanogaster -tentatively). If this is the species, they have a job with NASA.
Definitely always fun to watch the locomotion of a caterpillar’s walk! Here the Hackberry Emperor most likely was hunting for a place to pupate. It was on an Post Oak.
I never ever thought in my wildest dreams i would think a cockroach pretty but that one surely is.
I didn’t know about them until about a year or two ago. So pretty!
Looks like you have an Ibervillea vine in the background of the 2nd thistle photo. So pretty!
No Ibervillea vine. It is wild plums.
Yum! Those look quite large!
Pretty tasty for sure😋
We FINALLY saw three fungus beetles eating some fungus in our yard recently!! So keep watching!
I saw a caterpillar eating a fungus. Trying to raise one from last fall but I don’t think it is going to make