Backyard Wildlife

This evening while playing with Eddie I saw the little green metallic fly and the larger orange one. I dashed in to get my camera and I never saw them again. So I took pics of other things playing around the dayflowers.

I had pretty good luck for not using a tripod. I took photos at the top of the retaining wall, which is about 4 ft high.

This is the cute little long-horned grasshopper from the other day. OK, I realize if there's one there can be a dozen or more, but I'm pretending it's the same one. They are especially adept at scurrying around to the opposite side of the leaves to escape the full monty. I cropped it weird like this so you could see how long the "long horns" are. They are sometimes over twice the length of the body.


Stinkbug


I finally got a decently clear shot of neolema. I took many pics last summer, but no matter what the face and eyes are always blurry. I'm pretty pleased with this one, and BONUS! She's grooming!


And I also got a decent shot of the oulema.


This thing was even tinier than the beetles. It might be a hyaline grass bug. Or at least some kind of grass bug.


Here it is in profile


My favorite is this one - a really cute spiderette!