Walking Stick on Peter’s bins. Texas has at least 16 species. 
Leaf-cutter ant (Atta texana) highway. The ants are returning to their sprawling underground colonies with leaf fragments, which, farmer-like, they feed to the fungus they actually eat.
Thornbush Dasher (Micrathyria hagenii).
Band-winged Dragonlet (Erythrodiplax umbrata).
Antlion. This is the adult stage.
We saw many antlion traps, where buried nymphs wait for their lunch to fall down into the soft sand pits. 
Large Carpenter bee of some kind in the bottlebrush. 
Texan Crescents (Anthanassa texana) perpetuating the species.
TX Insects
3 responses to “TX Insects”
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That was a huge walking stick! We get big ones in South Texas, but wow. Good work!
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This was really close to the border. The ground was littered with white, conical land snail shells, and we were looking for a singing Varied Bunting, and the walking stick was suddenly there.
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Gorgeous. Every little insecty bit of it. Our Ozark walking sticks seem to come that big too, but maybe not quite.
Backyard and Beyond 
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