Insects, spider

Ragweed leaf beetle.

The woods at Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary were dripping with caterpillars, and caterpillar droppings, which rained down invisibly but created a little pitter patter on the leaf-litter.At Ipswich, I got my first mosquito bites of the year. This one was taken down back in Haverhill, MA. Note how its harpoon is longer than its thorax.This was quite tiny; it perched on top of a pair of eyeglasses long enough for a photo but not long enough to figure out what it was. A moth?A reader informs me this is leaf-hopper, one of the true bugs (see comments.)You can see why the wasps and the ants and the bees are all related. There was a stinger at the end of the corpse’s abdomen before I picked it up.A grasshopper on the road.Moth on the side of the house at night.Spider on screen with drag line visible.