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This wheel bug is carrying a Japanese Beetle

Tubular gall on Cornus drummondii

Host: Impatiens, either I. pallida or I. capensis (both species grow at the location; this specimen didn't have flowers).

On Solidago canadensis.

One in first photo. Two perched on same branch in second photo

Excuse me...

numerous in a zone at the wet top of the riverbank, just above exposed sandbar due to lowwater level

Capturing a fish in the pond, then flying off with it

Sorry for the grass blade in the foreground, obscuring one of the three plant stems...

While I'm taking pictures, he's thinking, "Boy, do I hate flash photography!"

Caught as bycatch in a pitfall trap. Thankfully, it was alive, so I carefully released it after taking this picture.

This chap was very little and quite a distance from water...and there was a second of the same size right there also. Could they have emerged from eggs in a nest nearby, or hibernated together?

on old branch of apple-ring acacia (Faidherbia albida) split for firewood

inside house, possible from cedar or pine wood brought indoors