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This robberfly tried to steal this bee from the spider’s web.

Being eaten by a long-legged fly

Calico and Halloween Pennants

on site with permission for bioblitz

Eating a nematode: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/121474288

Berlese funnel, Forest of white oak, chestnut oak, red maple, witch hazel, birch, northern red oak, tulip poplar, pine, rhododendron, hemlock

Moderately sized, not a small fly.

under damp log

Dead housefly on inside window with raised wings with white halo around it on glass.

I've always wanted to find these armored pauropodans.

String of eggs on stinging nettle. Lepidoptera?

curso de campo: arboles de Mindo, una introduccion, por Nicanor Mejía (Nico)

Eggs/larvae found in sect. ovales sedge

On this Andrena female: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/80607809

Fungus that has consumed a small green bee. Found under bark on a log.

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On our glass door, about an inch long. AI thinks it’s a fungus but I’m pretty sure it’s eggs.

This is probably another Andrena asteris as it was in the same area but I wasn't sure. This female was on snakeroot.

NOID Agapostemon, striped sweat bee, on Rudbeckia triloba in my garden, July 2011

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On B. impatiens, not sure if the fungus colonized the bee before or after it died. @beeboy ever seen something like this?