Female and male winter ant. Male is tiny! I saw them mating but couldn’t get a photo. “Prenolepis imparis is the first ant to hold mating flights every year in temperate North America. Alates wait out the winter and emerge on the first warm spring days.” They have burrows 5-6’ deep. #ants #insects
Northern Paper Wasp, Polistes fuscatus. #hymenoptera #vespidae
Red velvet mite is prettier than red velvet cake #Trombidiidae #arachnid as seen today at Trustom Pond National Wildlife Refuge #rhodeisland
The best candy bar in the galaxy #goldenbergspeanutchews #jamesspader
Some sort of sepsis fly. Tiny and cute! #diptera #sepsidae
A Frit Fly fully into a dandelion. Frit (not fruit) from the Swedish word for grain/seed. #diptera #chloropidae #fritfly #insect
Four-eyes four-eyes, the milkweed beetle #insect #beetle #coleoptera #longhornbeetlr
Unique faceted headlamp and CLB reverse levers on my early-70s SIFEM #bicycle #bicyclette #frenchbicycle #CLB #SIFEM
Lovely wolf spider visited my office yesterday #spider #lycosidae #gladicosa
Green Immigrant Leaf Weevil, after my local cobweb spider got through with it. #weevil #polydrusus #insects #coleoptera
