Who lives in the tree? #2- St Croix Falls, WI, USA
The bugs in this gallery were photographed in a small stand of silver maples (Acer saccharinum) around our campsite in Taylor Falls Interstate Park, Wisconsin, USA
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Female eastern dobsonfly (Corydalus cornutus). St Croix Falls, WI, USA.
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Female eastern dobsonfly (Corydalus cornutus). St Croix Falls, WI, USA.
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Female eastern dobsonfly (Corydalus cornutus). St Croix Falls, WI, USA.
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Female eastern dobsonfly (Corydalus cornutus). St Croix Falls, WI, USA.
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Female eastern dobsonfly (Corydalus cornutus). St Croix Falls, WI, USA.
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Dark fishing spider (Dolomedes tenebrosus). St Croix Falls, WI, USA.
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Dark fishing spider (Dolomedes tenebrosus). St Croix Falls, WI, USA.
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Dark fishing spider (Dolomedes tenebrosus). St Croix Falls, WI, USA.
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Dark fishing spider (Dolomedes tenebrosus) eating a harvestman. St Croix Falls, WI, USA.
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Dark fishing spider (Dolomedes tenebrosus) eating a harvestman. St Croix Falls, WI, USA.
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Dark fishing spider (Dolomedes tenebrosus) eating a harvestman. St Croix Falls, WI, USA.
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Dark fishing spider (Dolomedes tenebrosus) eating a harvestman. St Croix Falls, WI, USA.
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Dark fishing spider (Dolomedes tenebrosus) eating a harvestman. St Croix Falls, WI, USA.
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Hermit flower beetle (Osmoderma eremicola) and dark fishing spider (Dolomedes tenebrosus) sharing the burrow. St Croix Falls, WI, USA.
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Common house spider (Parasteatoda tepidariorum). St Croix Falls, WI, USA.
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European harvestman (Phalangium opilio). St Croix Falls, WI, USA
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European harvestman (Phalangium opilio). St Croix Falls, WI, USA. Detail of body, enlarged from previous photograph
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Eastern harvestman (Leiobunum vittatum). St Croix Falls, WI, USA
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Harvestman (Odiellus pictus). St Croix Falls, WI, USA
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Harvestman (Odiellus pictus). St Croix Falls, WI, USA. Detail of body, enlarged from previous photograph
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Ground spider (Family Gnaphosidae). St Croix Falls, WI, USA
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Hermit flower beetle (Osmoderma eremicola), sharing the burrow with the fishing spider. St Croix Falls, WI, USA.
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Hermit flower beetle (Osmoderma eremicola). St Croix Falls, WI, USA.
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Darkling beetle (Xylopinus saperdoides). St Croix Falls, WI, USA
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Darkling beetle (Strongylium tenuicolle). St Croix Falls, WI, USA.
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Asian lady beetle (Harmonia axyridis). Interstate Park, St Croix Falls, WI, USA.
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Asian lady beetle (Harmonia axyridis). Interstate Park, St Croix Falls, WI, USA.
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Asian lady beetle (Harmonia axyridis). Interstate Park, St Croix Falls, WI, USA.
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Cattail mosquito (Coquillettidia perturbans) - fed with my own blood. St Croix Falls, WI, USA.
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House fly (Muscidae). St Croix Falls, WI, USA.
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House fly (Muscidae). St Croix Falls, WI, USA.
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Little black caddisfy (Chimarra spp.). St Croix Falls, WI, USA.
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Little black caddisfy (Chimarra spp.). St Croix Falls, WI, USA.
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Spider wasp (Pompilidae) carrying a spider, with the legs cut off and discarded. The spider is upside down, being carried backward. St Croix Falls, WI, USA
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Wavy-lined Zanclognatha (Zanclognatha jacchusalis). Knots on the antennae indicate it's a male. St Croix Falls, WI, USA.
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Eastern black carpenter ant (Camponotus pennsylvanicus). St Croix Falls, WI, USA.
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Eastern black carpenter ant (Camponotus pennsylvanicus). St Croix Falls, WI, USA.
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Land snail (Anguispira spp., probably Anguispira alternata angulata). St Croix Falls, WI, USA.
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Land snail (Anguispira spp., probably Anguispira alternata angulata). St Croix Falls, WI, USA.
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Land snail (Anguispira spp., probably Anguispira alternata angulata). St Croix Falls, WI, USA.
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