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.