Phenomena of the Physical World

We've had some fun this winter, but we're ready for warm weather! Stay tuned!

Cuckoo Wasp

Keep an eye out for these guys!

I think this might be a later season cicada species! I never knew we had more than one annual cicada here in Ohio! I'm looking forward to making a trip to the northeast part of the state next year when the Seventeen Year cicada Brood emerges there.

Gladiator Katydid - genus Orchelimum

Male found calling on Canna lilies in the edible garden at Cox Arboretum MetroPark

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A couple of Honeybees - Apis mellifera

I have never seen so many honeybees! Great work, Five Rivers MetroParks
and thank you!

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Differential Grasshopper adult male and female mating pair - Melanoplus differentialis

Mating on fennel

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Small Milkweed Bug - Lygaeus fasciatus

Found near butterfly house at Cox Arboretum MetroPark.

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The Soldier Beetles were out in full force today!
Male and female mating pair

Chauliognathus pennsylvanicus

Found in prairie near tower at Cox Arboretum MetroPark. On Queen Anne's Lace.

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Three-spot Horse Fly - Tabanus trimaculatus

Found poolside in West Carrollton, Ohio.

Chinese Mantid - Tenodera ardifolia

Found on boxwood in the maze at Cox Arboretum MetroPark.

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A single lacewing egg on one of our black cherry tomatoes.

If you see these in your garden, leave them be! They're just as as ladybugs for controlling pest species!