As if climbing Jacob's ladder, in the sky, a spider--a skyder.

A potter wasp crafted this tiny "jug" out of mud and laid her eggs in it.

A large millipede.

Today's word is "gallfball." A gall is the oak's equivalent of a pearl: It grows in response to larvae laid on the tree by a wasp (see bisection lower right) and gets as large as a golfball. Fore!

Tumblebug atop its poop du jour.

These tiny condos housed mud dauber larvae.

Gulf fritillary against two backgrounds.

Insect gall on oak twig.

Argiope spider (top, bottom, and side views) and egg sack.

Swallowtail butterflies dressed up in antennae and tails.

Beetle with handlebar antennae.

Caterpillar hunter.

Tent caterpillar tent.

Inch worm in midmeasure.

Tomato worm with cat paw for scale.

Variegated fritillary.

Sulphur butterfly at rest, taking flight from a flower.

Katydid.

The plural of "grasshopper" is "plague."

A mourning cloak.

An angle wing butterfly called the comma.

Stag beetle spoiling for a fight.

Robber fly.

Well-camouflaged caterpillar, top and side views.

Little green beetle, possibly a scarab, found in a gourd bloom.

Trystus interruptus: Romantic mood spoiled by prying eyes.

Woolly caterpillar.

I am stumped.

Ironclad beetle.

This gray hairstreak looks like a two-headed butterfly. On each hind wing it has a black eye spot and a thin extension that looks like a white-tipped antenna. It even rubs its hind wings together so that the "antennae" seem to wiggle.

Honey bee.

Spider with Rorschach inkblot test on back.

A double rarity--two walkingsticks on the same day.

Shed larval skin of a cicada (locust) nymph who emerged from the ground after seventeen years--the longest life cycle of any insect.

Damselfly.

Looks like a damselfly or caddisfly but is larger (three inches), with hairy legs.

Red-spotted purple.

Praying mantis egg case.

Left, pits of the antlion; right, the beast itself.

Two moths, dressed in earth tones.