The weather has been pretty lackluster with snow yesterday afternoon. I have had little photographic opportunities so far here, although I did find a few spiders and flies out (pictures to come as my card reader is still in Columbus). However, bug life has been revving up around the state; I found this wolf spider a few weeks ago in Columbus:
This was taken mid-March, so I would think this is a juvenile. Here's its backside for anyone that may want to attempt an ID (it was approximately 1 cm long).
Some other predators are also busy with the early season sawflies serving as a good meal!
This is a juvenile assassin bug (family Reduviidae, species Zelus luridus) sucking the life out of a sawfly (family Tenthredinidae, species Dolerus nitens) (both IDs from bugguide.net). These are both very common insects, so it's not much of a surprise I found them around an apartment complex.
NICE shots, btw!
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ReplyDeleteThese pictures are great. Sawflys can be major pests of some forest trees and shrubs. This will be a good biocontrol picture to use! I think that all the wasps we saw on your sticky trap may have been some type of sawfly? Hard to say from the distance but I have been trying to think of what those things could hav been. They did not really look like a solitary bee to me?
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