Pre-summer Flowers/Bugs


Changing direction today to recent flowers and insects along the Gull Point Trail at Presque Isle State Park, featuring Feather-legged Scoliid Wasp (Dielis plumipes) on Canada Thistle (Cirsium arvense):

Oxeye Daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare)
Silver-spotted Skipper (Epargyreus clarus)
Summer Azure butterfly (Celastrina neglecta) (or similar species) on Oxeye Daisy
With hoverfly on right, likely from the genus Sphaerophoria
Daisy w/ unknown species of wasp or beetle
Daisy w/ unknown species of wasp or fly

This was a very lucky shot @ 600mm of the Feather-legged Scoliid Wasp briefly tangled in a spider’s web:

But it was way too big to be held up for long: