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I think I knocked this female off a leaf while weeding, I assume it was just resting.
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This is the only one in Gage Park that flowered in 2023, despite there being at least one older tree on the east side of the park over by the stormwater swale.
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Two males on one female, resting on the leaf of a perennial sunflower. Not sure how to diagnose Strauzia longipennis so leaving it at Strauzia.
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Two individuals on cultivated dill. Both went missing the next day, probably eaten. First observed 24 June 2023 as earlier instar.
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Two individuals in cultivated dill. Both went missing the next day, probably eaten. First observed 24 June 2023 (second photo shows earlier instar).
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Or so I think. Black metasomal scopa, dark metallic blue metasoma, grey-beige hair over head and mesosoma.
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Or O. taurus? Appears to have yellow metasomal scopa and clypeal protrusions.
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Closest trees are a juniper and a cherry, but the mushrooms appear to be growing from the "stumps" of cut-back elm saplings.