chalcidjyr's Identifications

~2 mm body with smooth and shiny body appearing as armor on the mesosoma with a shallow line of suture marks along the edge, a mid-dorsal pair of parallel lines/grooves on scutellum, and a pointed metasoma. Similar to Mesosoma of this image: https://bugguide.net/node/view/1521706.

In Ficus aurea syconium

Walking around area A at night, mostly looking closely at vegetation for spiders and insects. I had permission to blacklight at Bill Baggs and wanted to give my sheets more time to accumulate insects. Conditions were not ideal as a full moon and windy conditions limited quantity and quality of sheet visitors. There were almost no mosquitoes, a bad sign when it comes to blacklighting! See link at the bottom for details about my various set ups for the night and my 2024 CNC in general.

My blacklighting observations from Baggs:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?on=2024-04-26&order=asc&order_by=observed_on&place_id=any&project_id=blacklighting-florida&user_id=joemdo

Video showing the lights I use during a typical setup:
https://youtu.be/tavmTa7WoPk

Blacklighting project for Florida: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/blacklighting-florida

More details in general about my 2024 City Nature Challenge here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/joemdo/93673-city-nature-challenge-2024

~8 mm body. Rough sculptured dark mesosoma with iridescent tones. Red metasoma with a long dark compressed 8th segment/ovipositor. Sickle shaped black and red hind leg with enlarged femur and metafemur with ventral teeth. Interested in wet sandy soil near water. AI was "pretty sure" of the genus and it looks to be a good match but needs expert review. Prey are reportedly wood-boring coleopterous larva.