Some new bugs and one of my favorite wildflowers... the Saw Leaf Daisy.
This is the gray version of the blister beetle... he is quite a bit smaller than the striped blister beetle.
This was a skinny Stink Bug.
This is one of my favorite wildflowers - the Saw Leaf Daisy. This is where I found the Ambush Bug.... these are very stiff and prickly.
I found this Ambush Bug on the Saw Leaf Daisy flower below. His front legs looked like he had boxing gloves on. I found out that the Ambush Bug will sit perfectly still on a flower and ambush his prey by unfolding those boxing gloves and grabbing another insect for dinner. They will eat other insects that are much larger than themselves.
This was a skinny Stink Bug. All of the insect sketches are ink & watercolor in the Moleskine Bug Journal.
This is one of my favorite wildflowers - the Saw Leaf Daisy. This is where I found the Ambush Bug.... these are very stiff and prickly.The Daisy sketch is ink & watercolor on hemp paper in my nature journal.
Wonderful job! (I had a blister beetle in my hair the other day, looked just like that all right. Ewwwwwwwwwww!)
ReplyDeleteJust a really neat capture...loving it.
ReplyDeleteAnd that Ambush bug looks so innocent....
ReplyDeleteGreat bugs! I like that wildflower,too, it reminds me of Silphium sp., sometimes called Compass flower. It's also stiff and coarse, butlovely flowers like that.
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