A touch of New Orleans in Newport #newportjazz #newport #jazz #rhodeisland

Newport Jazz Festival day 1 #Newport #jazz #newportjazz #rhodeisland

A female velvet ant (Timulla vagans) checked out my garden this morning #velvetant #winglesswasp #insect #hymenoptera #bugsky

Eastern Cicada Killer (Sphecius speciosus) on final approach to its burrow. Beautiful! And so interesting. #insect #hymenoptera #cicada

Milkweed weevil, Rhyssomatus lineaticollis, getting drunk on latex #insect #beetle #coleoptera #weevil #milkweed #latexfetish

Mordella marginata, the tumbling ragdoll flower beetle, on my Jerusalem artichoke #insect #coleoptera #beetle

Robber fly (Eastern hammertail, I think) and its supper. #insect #diptera #robberfly

Emerald jumping spider says hi #jumpingspider #salticidae #spider

80% of the Joe Jackson Band on 10 July 2026. What a show! #joejackson #uptowntheater #providence #SteppinOut

Oxyopes salticus, the striped lynx spider, is among the top ten most beautiful predators in my garden #spider #arachnid #araneae

Nymph stage of the Rhododendron leafhopper, Graphocephala fennahi, looking cute in my garden #insect #leafhopper #hemiptera

The stilt bug Neoneides muticus skipping leg day in my garden #insect #hemiptera

Hibana gracilis, the garden ghost spider, finds all sorts of tasty treats in my garden. #spider #arachnid

This two-spotted stink bug nymph (Perillus bioculatus) loves my Jerusalem artichokes! So darn cute #insect #hemiptera

The carrion moth Monopis weaverella, resplendent in black and orange on my back door #insect #lepidoptera

Chrysanthemum lace bug on my Jerusalem artichoke. #insect #hemiptera

Blue Dasher is ready for his close-up. #insect #dragonfly #odonata

Four-eyes four-eyes, the milkweed beetle #insect #beetle #coleoptera #longhornbeetlr

Some sort of sepsis fly. Tiny and cute! #diptera #sepsidae

A Frit Fly fully into a dandelion. Frit (not fruit) from the Swedish word for grain/seed. #diptera #chloropidae #fritfly #insect

Green Immigrant Leaf Weevil, after my local cobweb spider got through with it. #weevil #polydrusus #insects #coleoptera

Red velvet mite is prettier than red velvet cake #Trombidiidae #arachnid as seen today at Trustom Pond National Wildlife Refuge #rhodeisland

Unique faceted headlamp and CLB reverse levers on my early-70s SIFEM #bicycle #bicyclette #frenchbicycle #CLB #SIFEM

Northern Paper Wasp, Polistes fuscatus. #hymenoptera #vespidae

Female and male winter ant. Male is tiny! I saw them mating but couldn’t get a photo. “Prenolepis imparis is the first ant to hold mating flights every year in temperate North America. Alates wait out the winter and emerge on the first warm spring days.” They have burrows 5-6’ deep. #ants #insects

The best candy bar in the galaxy #goldenbergspeanutchews #jamesspader

Lovely wolf spider visited my office yesterday #spider #lycosidae #gladicosa

Black lace-weaver (Amaurobius ferox) female in my basement today. #spider #arachnid big beautiful girl

Hard to tell with my potato phone camera, but that’s Mdou Moctar up there putting on a masterful performance last night. #mdoumoctar #brightonmusichall

#providence #sunrise