... collected from here and there, some alive, some recently dead. I'm sorting last month's photos, playing catch up.
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| Harvestman on a house plant (Kalanchoe tomentosa) |
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| Hover fly on yarrow. I'm not sure of the other beetle with the spots. Tyee Spit. |
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| Twin berries, Lonicera involucrata, with an orange fly. Tyee Spit. |
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| A crane fly who died on my windowsill. Aren't those wings pretty? |
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| Looking at you. |
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| Grasshopper on the Oyster Bay shore. Probably Pallid-winged Grasshopper, Trimerotropis sp. Mostly, they jumped away as soon as my shadow came anywhere near; for this one, I crawled up, inch by inch, down at his level. (No shadow!) |
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| Another Oyster Bay grasshopper, same afternoon, same location. But this one didn't wait around for me. He may be a different species, but I can't identify him, and the Pallid-wings are quite variable. |
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| Recently squashed spider. Just the eyes and mustache. One of the mesh web weavers, by the eye arrangement. (See BugGuide) |
Water shots next, I think.
Your harvestman is a male of the widespread Phalangium opilio. The forward-pointing 'horns' on the top of the chelicerae (the jaws) are distinctive.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Christopher! I thought those jaws looked unusual, compared to the harvestmen I normally see.
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