SE Arizona July 2013. Image heavy.

[myrmecophile]

Following were take in the vicinity of the Southwest Research station in the Chiricahua Mtns. Az.

Small Cerambycid at light.

Male ant and some termites

Myrmecocystus mendax getting ready for their mating flight

Cone nose bug

Pogonomyrmex barbatus working over an interloping centipede.

Skipper butterfly

Small tiger beetle at light.

Small cockroach at light.

Camponotus with brood under rock.

Unknown spider.

Pogonomyrmex apache alate female.

Spider by the pool at the SWRS (Southwest research station)

Robberfly

Large Buprestid on mesquite at night.

Cactus long horn beetle on Cholla.

Green Meloid

Male Loxoceles.

Female Loxoceles under same rock as male.

Millipede love.

Another visitor to the light.

Velvet mite

Antlion adult

The obligatory jerusalem cricket shot.

Small scorpion under rock

Small moth at light.

Lycaenid butterfly larva.

Cool green Euphoria sp. scarab

Chrysina lecontei.

Male trapdoor spider

Female trapdoor

Wolf spider from White tail Cyn Az. Geolycosa sp. I believe.

Myrmecocystus mexicanus

Myrmecocystus mendax lab colony.

Tortoise beetle.

Milk weed long horn beetles feeling the love

Milkweed bugs

Underwing moth at light

From a pond near Bisbee Az. Triops sp.

Following taken at Florida Canyon in the Santa Rita Mtns. Az.

Chyrsina beyeri and small scarab

Clerid beetle.

Thread legged assassin bug

Ant mimic spider

Assassin bug

Male Neivamyrmex army ant.

Small roach

Sunset

 

[JadeWilliamson]

Those are some great pictures!
I love that you started with a sunrise and ended with a sunset.

 

[Greenjewls]

thanks, great pics! I love the green pasimachus beetle. I love all of them actually. Arizona, forever!

 

[ShredderEmp]

What species of scorpion was that?

 

[myrmecophile]

Which scorpion are you referring to?? The glow in the dark is a stripe tail, Vaejovis spinigerus. The tiny one under the rock is Vaejovis cashi This tine species was very common under rocks.

Also collected was Pseudouroctonus apacheanus . Only found the one specimen of this one.

 

[Shrike]

Nice pics! Those ant colonies are really cool.

 

[Smokehound714]

That Chyrsina is beautiful.. Those legs have the coolest coloring ever.. Too bad you didn't find a gloriosa, those are even more beautiful..

 

[myrmecophile]

Found plenty of gloriosa, they were dirt common. So common I did not take many pictures of them. All three species of Arizona Chrysina were fairly common this season.