2022 September 10 evening

    Rob Gowan sends some photos from Saratoga Beach/Miracle Beach taken today.  Thanks to Dr Rob Cannings for identifying the Laphria and confirming the Neomochtherus.

 

Two-striped Grasshopper Melanoplus bivittatus (Orth.: Acrididae)  Rob Gowan

Migratory Grasshopper Melanoplus (probably sanguinipes)(Orth.: Acrididae)  Rob Gowan

Fall Field Cricket Gryllus pennsylvanicus (Orth.: Gryllidae)  Rob Gowan

 

Robber fly Neomochtherus willingstoni (Dip.: Asilidae)  Rob Gowan

Robber fly Laphria fernaldi (Dip.: Asilidae)  Rob Gowan

 

Here’s a spider from Ian Cooper:

Eratigena duellica (Ara.: Agelenidae)  Ian Cooper

 

And here are three hover flies, also known as flower flies, or more often, just syrphids, that we have not yet been able to identify.

 

Hover fly  (Dip.:  Syrphidae)  Jeremy Tatum

Hover fly  (Dip.:  Syrphidae)  Jeremy Tatum

Hover fly  (Dip.:  Syrphidae)  Ian Cooper

Hover fly  (Dip.:  Syrphidae)  Ian Cooper