Show us bugs on tree’s

[Weta]

While I'm sure some were on nearby trees this is one of my favs of one of the cats following me across the paddock covered in webs last year , bad dusk lighting and out of focus but it was a magic moment.

 

[MGTT]

A firefly, resting before going to work tonight.

 

[Housguy]

Spider, wish I knew the species, big girl.

 

[KateM]

Spider, wish I knew the species, big girl.
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Orb-weaver spider.

 

[Michigan Tree Murderer]

Spider, wish I knew the species, big girl.

I asked my wife and apparently it's a "face eating spider".

Nice looking Oak BTW.

 

[pandacular]

some sort of dragonfly on my maple

 

[MGTT]

For @KateM , I didn’t know what it was until your post. Thanks for the identification

 

[KateM]

For @KateM , I didn’t know what it was until your post. Thanks for the identification View attachment 502424

I bet you got carpenter bees around

 

[MGTT]

Ha ha ha! You know it!

I looked it up, when I saw it was the same fly as your post, and finally learned why it was around.

I would have never known otherwise, thx!!

 

[Michigan Tree Murderer]

Mud Dauber wasp nest. Should I remove it?

 

[Hack Yeah!]

Saw this what I’m almost 100% sure is an imperial moth caterpillar on a Bald Cypress that I collect cones from. Freaked me out because I almost walked directly into it.

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Not sure if anyone chimed in but that looks like a tomato hornworm, they'll decimate a tomato plant overnight, you could be right on the moth??


Maybe just similar, I see yours has the hairs

 

[MGTT]

Mud Dauber wasp nest. Should I remove it?

I was going to say leave it, but it looks like they prey on spiders, so, I’d remove it

 

[Michigan Tree Murderer]

That was the same thing I was thinking, just not/wasn't sure. There's probably a spider entombed in that nest already.

 

[MGTT]

 

[BrightsideB]

Not sure if anyone chimed in but that looks like a tomato hornworm, they'll decimate a tomato plant overnight, you could be right on the moth??
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Maybe just similar, I see yours has the hairs

This thing was much larger than any tomato hornworm I’ve seen. I saw it at rope mill park on a bald cypress.

 

[KateM]

Not sure if anyone chimed in but that looks like a tomato hornworm, they'll decimate a tomato plant overnight, you could be right on the moth??
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Maybe just similar, I see yours has the hairs

It's different. Emperial moths are prettier and don't eat tomatoes.


Tobacco hornworm - meh...

 

[KateM]

Well, that's how nature or God created them...

 

[KateM]

Unknown spider on my bald cypress I got from CJR

 

[KateM]

Admiral

 

[Ruddigger]

Spotted this guy on my California yesterday.