I have never seen anything like this in Vancouver, WA and it is in our yard in a hot day.
A grackle singing Christmas carols?! Awesome!
it's so small and flat that it looks fake lol
The elytra don’t fully obscure the abdomen
3rd site on my 2nd Brazos River trip with UNT AFS!
Interesting bug I found in the mud while heading back to leave the site!
Neighbor found an albino skunk (I presume) in our neighborhood!
Q2
Mating
What a fantastic afternoon and evening with UNT students and others at LLELA! We did a bit of bug hunting in the afternoon and then set up some black-lights in the evening -- crazy dry, but some bugs still showed up. Lots of students this evening as well -- that was awesome. :)