All photographs ©2004-2008 by Mary Beth Stowe
Other Bugs
Variegated Meadowhawk, Carrizo Marsh (Anza Borrego Desert SP)
Arizona Blister Beetle
Red Velvet Ant along the Jasper Trail
Young male Flame Skimmer along the Pine Creek Trail
Male Flame Skimmer at Mission Dam
Another possible Flame Skimmer, Torrey Pines State Preserve
Crab of some kind at Sunset Cliffs
Orb Weaver Spider at the TRV Bird & Butterfly Garden
Vivid Dancer at Felicita County Park (three different individuals)
Another Vivid Dancer along the PCT southbound from Barrel Springs
Variegated Meadowhawks (left near The Narrows, Anza Borrego Desert SP; right at Mount Gower OSP)
Female of the same species at Felicita County Park
Female Arroyo Bluet, Lake Hodges
Familiar Bluet at Mission Dam
Thread-waisted Wasp at Palm Spring, Anza Borrego Desert SP
Backlit bug tornados at Lindo Lake
Bees have taken over Yaqui Well!
Yellow-faced Bumblebee, Loveland Reservoir (JUL 07)
"Orange-winged" Grasshopper along the PCT, southbound from Barrel Springs
Beetle sp. at Mission Dam
Seven-spotted Ladybug (exotic) Convergence Ladybug (native) Both at Mission Dam
Possible Western Red Ladybug (Tijuana Slough NWR, JUL 07)
The next several bugs were taken at the Bird and Butterfly Garden, Tijuana River Valley Regional Park
Thread-waisted Wasps (digging a "larder" at right)
Aphids on a milkweed
Black Widow
Spider sp.
Darkling Beetles
"Red-legged" Grasshopper
Ground Beetle
Dauber Wasp
Ashy-gray Velvet Ant
Bee Assassin (Apiomerus crassipes) along the PCT southbound from Barrel Springs
Bee Fly (Helophilus sp.)
Bugs at a blacklighting demonstration at Rose Canyon...
Claude Edwards (background) and a helper named Kevin marvel at the midges gathering on the sheet!
Closeup of the midges
Small June Beetle in one of the plastic viewing boxes the kids used
A more rusty-colored June Beetle
With the book Michael Klein was using as a reference
Parasitic beetle
Giant Crane Fly (PCT near Boulder Oaks)
Tarantula Hawk, Lake Jennings (JUL 07)
Green Fruit Beetle, Tijuana Slough NWR (JUL 07)
San Diego Tiger Beetle (Cicindela latesignata), same location and date
Spotted Spreadwing along the Inaja Trail (AUG 07)
Western Forktail (I was shooting the skipper and didn't even notice the ode until I was editing the pictures!) Famosa Slough (SEP 07)
Remains of a bug skewered on the end of an agave "leaf"