Pseudatomoscelis seriatus
A cotton fleahopper bug on goldenrod. Austin, Texas, USA
Tinocallis
An elm leaf aphid navigates the sticky honeydew from a heavy fall outbreak on the underside of a leaf. Austin, Texas, USA.
Xanthaciura tetraspina
A small true fruit fly on its mistflower host plant. Austin, Texas, USA.
Sarucallis kahawaluokalani
Crepe myrtle aphids on their host plant. Austin, Texas, USA.
Aedes albopictus
A female Asian tiger mosquito takes a blood meal. Austin, Texas, USA.
Camponotus decipiens
A nest of carpenter ants in a cottonwood tree. Sugar Land, Texas, USA.
Major and minor workers of the small red & black carpenter ant. Sugar Land, Texas, USA.
Taeniaptera trivittata
This stilt-legged fly is a mimic of ants. Sugar Land, Texas, USA.
Tetramorium bicarinatum
Ants are clean animals and don't normally eat members of their own species, but they will happily eat other ant species. Here, a bicolored pavement ant carries the abdomen of a Pseudomyrmex twig ant back to her nest, where it will be fed to her sister larvae. Sugar Land, Texas, USA.
Chelinidea vittiger
An adult cactus coreid feeds on a cactus pad while straddling a line of freshly-laid eggs. Austin, Texas, USA.
Cactus coreids usually lay their eggs in rows on their host plant, but they aren't fussy and will also oviposit on nearby vegetation such as grass blades. Austin, Texas, USA.
Phlegyas annulicrus
A Pachygronthid bug on its grass host plant. Austin, Texas, USA.
Crematogaster laeviuscula with scale
An oak scale releases a droplet of sweet honeydew, excess sugars from its diet of tree sap, which is lapped up by some attendant acrobat ants. Austin, Texas, USA.
An acrobat tends an oak scale for honeydew. Austin, Texas, USA.
An oak scale insect releases a droplet of sweet honeydew, excess sugars from its diet of tree sap, which is lapped up by some attendant acrobat ants. Austin, Texas, USA.
Solenopsis carolinensis
These alate queen thief ants arrived to a blacklight sheet the first night after a strong rain. Austin, Texas, USA.
Camponotus festinatus
An alate queen departs on her mating flight. Austin, Texas, USA.
Entylia carinata
A keeled treehopper is tended by Pheidole floridana ants along a sunflower stem. Austin, Texas, USA.
Anthomyia illocata
A small root-maggot fly feeds from the remains of a moth carcass. Austin, Texas, USA.
Zelus luridus
Assassin bug. Austin, Texas, USA.
Red "knees" and small, upturned shoulder spikes help identify this assassin bug as Zelus luridus. Austin, Texas, USA.
Lema trivittata
Three-lined Lema beetle on its Datura host plant. Austin, Texas, USA.
Pheidole tetra
Major workers in the brood nest. Brackenridge Field Laboratory, Texas, USA.
