Toledo October 4

 I visited the Toledo Zoo October 4, 2025. Here are the photos.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I opened my camera bag and saw that the top display looked funny and that the power switch was in the ON position. I figured that was okay because the camera hardly uses any power just sitting there, and the drive from Columbus was only 2 1/2 hours. Except that I'd last used it a couple of days ago. The battery was dead, but I still enjoyed the zoo. 

The switch in the ON position. (The photo was taken with the battery removed because it was being charged.)

Home Bugs

Here are some bugs I've seen around the house.

Silky harp ground beetle (focus stack of 12 images). Yeah, I blew the exposure.

Red milkweed beetle (focus stack of 16 images)

 

Reddish-brown stag beetle

Hackberry emperor

A click beetle, Monocrepidius lividus (focus stack of 2 images)

Monarch caterpillars on milkweed (focus stack of 2 images)

A bee fly, Villa lateralis  (focus stack of 7 images)

Flies have two wings while bees have four, and files' eyes are generally closer together than bees' eyes.

The Seek app says this is a type of cutworm, or moth larva (focus stack of 9 images)

Cabbage white butterfly on purple coneflower (echinacia)

Metric paper wasp on milkweed (focus stack of 14 images)

When I came upon the scene, this wasp and two yellowjackets(?) were taking apart what seemed to be a monarch caterpillar. By the time I had my camera, one yellowjacket was gone and the wasp had its own portion.