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Approximately 12” / 30 cm.

In a Woolly Rosemallow (Hibiscus lasiocarpos) seed pod.

Length ~ 5 1/8” / 13 cm.

Approximately 3/4” / 1.5 cm.

On primrose blooms.

There is a substance seeping out of the trunk of the oak that this, southern yellowjacket, and red wasp seem to like.

Parasit observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/232471121.

View also observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/230020108#activity_identification_70b6db63-f2f3-43b9-b0e6-e7ef7120da9c.

There were three fledglings observable as they were leaving their nest today (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/230075558).

On a young red oak.

Gathered from an approximate 2’ / 60 cm square area (first photo).

On the peeling bark of a river birch.

Approximately 0.5” / 1 cm.

Observed this the previous day around the same time.

Communication with a fledgling on the ground.

On the bloom of a sunflower.

On a marigold bloom.

With its prey.

Together with observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/218012535.