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Viúva-Negra-Do-Sul (Latrodectus mactans)Observador
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Crossing the road in early morning - Most unusual for one to leave her web, especially in such a gravid state.
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Amorpha canescensObservador
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In planted prairie, among Sporobolus heterolepis and Salix humilis
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Atteva aureaObservador
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So-called Ailanthus webworm on a native plant Simaroubaceae: Leitneria floridana, in planted wetland.
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Oenothera macrocarpaObservador
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On xeric dolmite grassland (glade).
Pardon my fingers, but useful for scale.
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Mydas clavatusObservador
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On Pycnanthemum tenuifolium in prairie planting
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Currently in synonymy with C. minutissima, but C. missouriensis has distinct biogeography (though broadly overlapping in SE USA), dwells in sterile soil rather than in moist forest litter, has darker coloring, and is measurably and consistently larger than C. minutissima. Here, they're on a bit of canned peach.
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Epicauta atrataObservador
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On Calystegia sepium, field near Visitor Center
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Bombus auricomusObservador
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Queen bumblebee foraging at Baptisia alba
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Género PanorpaObservador
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This is the most common early season scorpion fly in eastern North America.
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Formica difficilisObservador
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Formica difficilis a grassland ant, that can be abundant in patches of native grassland, very old fields, or brushland, but is absent from most of the modern landscape of its native eastern and central USA. Here, workers are tending aphids on a shingle oak sapling in a field.
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Monomorium minimumObservador
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The Little Black Ant is well named, jet black and topping out at about 1.75mm long. Here a worker visits a petiolar nectary of Partridge Pea in my back yard prairie planting. This is one of the most abundant ant species in the yard.
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Neivamyrmex nigrescens is one of two army ant species that is found as far north as the lower Missouri River Valley. Here they were bivouacked in a rotten log in the wilder portion of my back yard. This log has been occupied by a series of at least 6 species of ants over the last two years!
