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Update: iNaturalist CV suggests
Trigrammia quadrinotaria - Four-spotted Angle - Hodges 6360
That does look good!
References
- BugGuide bugguide.net/node/view/57143
- Covell, Field Guide to Eastern Moths (Houghton-Mifflin, 1984) p. 350, plate 48(9)
- MPG mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=6360
Cuckoo Bee - Nomada species (male?, and mating pair in one image)
Tentative ID--opinions welcome!
Nomada bees are kleptoparasites, laying their eggs in the burrows of ground-nesting bees such as Andrena. Females lack pollen baskets, so resemble wasps. They are quite diverse--the genus has ~280 North American species.
Also uploaded at:
bugguide.net/node/view/2451061
References
- BugGuide bugguide.net/node/view/5211
Cuckoo Bee - Nomada species (male?, and mating pair in one image)
Tentative ID--opinions welcome!
Cuckoo Bee - Nomada species (male?, and mating pair in this image)
Tentative ID--opinions welcome!
Cuckoo Bee - Nomada species (male?, and mating pair in one image)
Tentative ID--opinions welcome!
Purple Meadow Parsnip - Thaspium trifoliatum var. trifoliatum
Purple Meadow Parsnip - Thaspium trifoliatum var. trifoliatum
Philadelphia Fleabane - Erigeron philadelphicus var. philadelphicus
Stem and leaves pubescent, leaves clasp the stem.
Philadelphia Fleabane - Erigeron philadelphicus var. philadelphicus
Wood Betony, Lousewort - Pedicularis canadensis
Wood Betony, Lousewort - Pedicularis canadensis
Wood Betony, Lousewort - Pedicularis canadensis
Lettuceleaf Saxifrage - Micranthes micranthidifolia
A lot of this was growing in seeps/along small streams.
Lettuceleaf Saxifrage - Micranthes micranthidifolia
A lot of this was growing in seeps/along small streams.
Slender Toothwort - Cardamine angustata
Slender Toothwort - Cardamine angustata
Opiliones, Phalangidae, I think!
Also posted at:
bugguide.net/node/view/2450821
Beetle larva tunnels, perhaps.
Also posted at:
bugguide.net/node/view/2450818
Elk, Wapiti - Cervus canadensis (female?)
Browsing along the trail.
Elk, Wapiti - Cervus canadensis (female?)
Female (?) Elk at Kanati Fork Trail. I was finished for the day and descending the trail slowly. I came around a bend and there was an elk in the trail, browsing. It turned and saw me but was not alarmed. There was no way to get around it. I decided the safest thing to do was just stay put and watch quietly so that it always knew where I was. (I had to get down the trail to get back to my car, as there was no other. Dense woods stopped me from detouring around the trail, and there might have been other elk back there.) After maybe 45 minutes it moved on up the hillside. I descended when it was well away from the trail.