A Field Guide to the North Side of Old Mill Hill, Atlantic Mine, MI
Archive for July 2008
This one landed on me while I was out pushing Sam on her swing. At first, I thought it was a wasp, because that’s what it looked and acted like while it was flying, but as soon as it landed and closed its wings, it was clearly a rather attractive beetle.
Last year, I had an entry about ant lions, with pictures of the larval form (which digs pits in sandy soil and grabs unwary insects that stumble ino them). Well, here is the adult form, that S_ just caught for me out on the front porch:
Back on May 10, this is one of the things that Sam and I found under a rock. We didn’t spot it at first, because it looked a great deal like a small plant root - at least until it moved. It’s almost two centimeters long, but less than a millimeter wide.
Here’s one that probably everybody in North America has at least heard, if not seen: field crickets. I recorded this sound clip on June 17, which was when the spring field crickets (Gryllus veletis) started singing[1].
Chirp of Spring Field Cricket (.wav file)