Insects Lurking About
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One of my favorite things to do when I have the time while hiking is to move slowly and see what insects and arachnids may be lurking about on a plant. There’s a good chance one is hiding in plain sight, like this American nursery web spider, Pisuarina mira.
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Common boneset, Eupatorium perfoliatum, the perfect haunt for that spider as it waits for insects to come nectar!
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This unassuming goldenrod looks devoid of faunal life but…
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you would be wrong. I’m unsure which bee this is and I may not ever get an answer because I only have the one photo, but it may be one of the leaf cutter bees, possibly Coelioxys dolichos. I’ll update this post if anyone is able to identify it.
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And unfortunately this little sweat bee has been snared in the web of a spider nearby. It looks like an unfortunate dragonfly also met its demise there as well.
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The culprit may have been this female green lynx spider, which you can see here carefully taking care of her nest of eggs.
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She had them tucked away deep inside the goldenrod and it took me a couple of angles to get a decent photo of them.
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This is the first year I have seen so many green lynx females with eggs. I found three separate mom’s with their egg cases at home and even managed to see one of them with all of their hatchlings back in late November.
Move slowly, a whole other world is unfolding out of human view!
Angelina National Forest, October 2022.
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