Arthropod Miscellany – 2023

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A few miscellaneous arthropods from 2023.

Tetraopes tetrophthalmus (red milkweed beetles) photographed in June of 2023. Location not recorded.
A sawfly (F. Cimbicidae), Abia sp., photographed at Hughes Mountain Natural Area in early April.
(Antaeotricha schlaegeri) Schlaeger’s fruitworm moth (F. Oecophoridae) photographed at Meramec State Park in May.
Giant Walking Stick (Megaphasma denticrus) photographed on a WGNSS trip in September at Pickle Springs Natural Area.
This salticid female Phidippus clarus (brilliant jumping spider), was photographed at Horn’s Prairie Grove LWR in July.
A Mecaphesa asperata, F. Thomisidae, crab spider feasting on a native bee at Paintbrush Prairie Conservation Area in June.

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