Favoritos de mentha

Blue Disa

Roadside . Degraded weedy Among lantana and bugweed

Flowering mostly over

Plants in fruit. Rodent predation of fruits . Ants attracted to elaiosomes

From same location: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/164252681
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/170074717

ex Physcia sp.

Female being amplexed by male P. leucomystax.

Auf Onopordum (acanthium?)

1 female, 1 male

Auf Fagus

Auf Tilia

female, mating pair, mating ball, male asleep, female in turret, turret compared to the larger one of D. bituberculata & male waiting for a female to emerge

ID'd by Doug Yanega

Either very territorial or trying to mate with all genera of bees around; went after Centris rhodopus and Apis mellifera.

According to Karen Wright the bee is likely Melissodes nigracauda

Probably from my neighbor's managed stock.

Male