psyspoop

Nothing on bugguide so far except confirming it's in Sesiidae. On my iNat record, I had a Sesiidae expert ID it as Vitacea polistiformis

That's also the taxon that I came to last night when I was trying to figure it out. Maybe! I have it up on bugguide too now.

Found it in Northeast Nebraska hanging out on a plant on the edge of a tallgrass prairie and woodland while surveying for mycorhizal fungi. Thankfully I like taking pictures of wasps since I 100% thought this was a Polistes, otherwise I might have just walked on.

If anyone has any idea on an ID, it'd be much appreciated.

Nearest tree was a spruce of some sort, with a blue spruce and a couple linden trees also relatively nearby. Thinking Hortiboletus rubellus or Boletus harrisonii, but very unsure.

It was flying around to different spots and then getting into this position for a bit, then moving to a different spot. I think it was trying to find a suitable spot to sleep.

Didn't use a tripod so I didn't get the same angle/framing. Found near some burr oaks in a hardwood woodland in eastern Nebraska. UV is 365nm wavelength

So you're looking for a word that's a descriptor for different types of social media e.g. aggregator vs video/image/audio hosting vs microblogging. The first word that comes to mind is that they might be different paradigms of social media?

Family Bombyliidae. I'm thinking Exoprosopa fascipennis but not sure. Location is eastern Nebraska.

Found crawling around on Helianthus anuus leaves. I wish I got a better pic but it was tough since it was so small and moving around a lot. If anyone knows species, please let me know. Location was eastern Nebraska

On Gaillardia pulchella bloom. I think it's H. ligatus but not sure.

Unsure of the species, but it appeared to be ovipositing between the florets on the capitullum

My path to becoming interested in native plant gardening probably started with me getting interested in mycology. I got super interested in the ecology of fungi and how they interact with the environment/ecosystem, which eventually got me thinking more about how other things like plants interact with the natural world around them, which led me to bring interested in native plants since they're integral to the local ecosystem.