This week, we visited Green Swamp Nature Preserve - there are several entrances to east and west tracts - so we started with the McNeil tract - we'll try others over the next several weeks.
Nephila clavipes - Golden Silk Spider (or Banana Spider)
Colorful grasshopper
Face of a colorful grasshopper
Face of a colorful grasshopper
Unknown female spider - first time seeing this
Sac Spider - Cheiracanthium inclusum
A recently emerged insect, possibly a skipper, first encounter of this
Black eyed susan - and interesting beetle-like insect
Black eyed susan - and interesting beetle-like insect
Mecaphesa celer
Mecaphesa celer another view
I think this is a juvenile Argiope .sp with an elliptical sawtooth stabilimenta
Ebony jewel-winged damselfly
Dragonfly
Dragonfly
Mecaphesa celer
Mecaphesa celer
Unknown spider - hiding under a cabbage palm
C. Frank Starmer