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Mantis in separate post. Glad something is eating the lanternflies.

Looks as if it was originally planted but now it self-seeds.

Two of the wings were damaged -- folded over.

In the lavender field.

It was on flowers in the lavender field.

Triangular leaves with two small lateral lobes near the base. Growing in a salt marsh

Cross-barred Venus on the left
Atlantic Kitten's Paw on the right.

Abdomen was a bright orange-red in color, although you can't really see that in this image.

I was very happy to find this, which is a new species to me.

But it flew away before I could get more photos.

There were two of them.

It was already trodden on or run over when I found it.

In leaves of Summer Cypress.

Dead empty shell washed up in the highest possible part of the upper beach platform, under the bushes. Must have been in a storm with a high tide and the biggest waves.

Seen in the same place as I saw one in 2019.

Berthelinia typica

Thanks Charley!

A beautiful cricket with iridescent, bronze wings. He (no obvious ovipositor) was sitting on a Silky dogwood leaf (Cornus amomum)

The Cicada-killer wasp was flying around with the Cicada and eventually dragged the Cicada into the wasp’s burrow.

Found drowned and floating on the surface of John Jay Pool.

Under a rock. Small (but not nearly as small as an Argentine Ant), and very mild-mannered and slow-moving. Pretty, bright, translucent ants that look like a bunch of gummies.

On a hickory.

Happy to find a new moth.

The CV gave this suggestion. I could see this was a Locust, but I did not know which one.

On hickory.

Found inside but gently returned to the wild <3

Unbelievably long antennae!

???

The coolest stag beetle I have found.