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on Penstemon attenuatus

https://ebird.org/checklist/S153424606

https://ebird.org/checklist/S121501932

Many individuals on the snow buckwheat just starting to bloom.

Photo of prey:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/176147125

For the salamander. :)

on Dalea ornata

On a yarrow cultivar.

On desert yellow daisy (Erigeron linearis).

Found on hairy sweet cicely in dry-mesic woodland.

With great speed, she ran through the rocks checking between crevices for prey. She stopped briefly on a south-facing rock, possibly to rest and/or warm up.

On snow buckwheat.

On snow buckwheat.

Found on spotted bee balm in remnant sand prairie.

Female visiting germander flowers.

Approx. 2-3mm

Corthylio calendula

Found on spring beauty in dry-mesic oak woodland.

Crossocerus or Pemphredon?

@richardlbaxter Is this right? I wish I had managed better pics.

Female, 6mm.
Picked up by sweep net in glade.

Series of her digging in a pile of sandy loam in my backyard.

Found on tall green milkweed in sand prairie remnant.

A group of at least 6 individuals were very busy on a single plant of western prairie clover (Dalea ornata).

Found along roadside in patch on butterweed.

On a daisy.

On rose bush leaf.

On sulfur buckwheat (Eriogonum umbellatum).

https://bugguide.net/node/view/1938438

Found along edge of loess hill prairie remnant at Cecil White Prairie Land and Water Reserve.

Found on a window at the I65 Kankakee rest area southbound. Specimen taken to Indianapolis for photos and and then returned and released back at the same location two days later.

Found in open woodland in Singing Woods Nature Preserve.

Found on wild bergamot in remnant prairie.