This isIsohydnocera curtipennis(Cleridae), which I had seen a couple of times in June 2020 wandering around on milkweed plants in my yard. Until this one appeared in that jar, I had been completely unaware that these beetles develop in galls of other insects. It turns out this same spec...
In the course of a few weeks, I shot this video of our passion fruit plants which have hosted an enormous collection of big fat beautiful bumble bees this year and then stuck my hand in a yellow jacket nest and suffered the consequences, as did the wasps. We also tested an idea for k...