# data[].attributes.body
Location Lat: 31.658446
Lon: -96.97148

Locality: East Texas, Tx

Date: 5/7/20
Collector: gregbonmessenger82
Order: Megaloptera
Family: Corydalidae
Ecology Category: Aquatic Nymph

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Spring Fishfly from Axtell on May 07, 2020 at 03:24 PM by gregvonmessenger82

# data[].attributes.body
Location Lat: 30.611817
Lon: -97.822822
Locality: Georgetown, Tx
Date: 5/11/20
Collector: karsten_q
Order: Orthoptera
Family: Tettigoniidae
Ecology Category: Acoustic

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Dark Bush-cricket from Caddo Canoe Dr, Georgetown, TX, US on May 11, 2020 at 10:45 AM by karsten_q

# data[].attributes.body
Location Lat: 32.884587 Lon:  -97.280687Locality: Forth Worth, Tx
Date: 5/11/20
Collector: walkingstick2
Order: Odonata
Family: Coenagrionidae
Ecology Category: NA

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Bluets from Arcadia Trail Park, Fort Worth, TX, US on May 11, 2020 at 11:22 AM by walkingstick2

# data[].attributes.body
Location Lat: 30.185737
Lon: -95.559936
Locality: The Woodlands, Tx
Date: 5/11/20
Collector: adalea23
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Reduviidae
Ecology Category: Insect Predator

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Assassin Bugs from Sterling Ridge, The Woodlands, TX, USA on May 11, 2020 at 11:38 AM by adalea23

# data[].attributes.body
Location Lat: 26.180484
Lon: -98.33093
Locality: City of Mission, Tx
Date: 5/10/20
Collector: dingooctavious
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Reduviidae
Ecology Category: Insect Predator

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Phymata fasciata from 2421 S Conway Ave, Mission, TX 78574, USA on May 10, 2020 at 03:26 PM by DinGo OcTavious

# data[].attributes.body
Location Lat: 30.20404
Lon: -98.080031
Locality: Hays County, Tx
Date: 5/10/20
Collector: ecrape
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Ecology Category: Pollinator

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Mexican Cactus Fly (Copestylum mexicanum)

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Mexican Cactus Fly from Hays County, TX, USA on May 10, 2020 at 11:20 AM by Eric Carpenter. https://bugguide.net/node/view/9910

# data[].attributes.body
Location Lat: 31.323368
Lon: -94.724583
Locality: Lufkin, Tx
Date: 5/7/20
Collector: haleytr
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Multillidae
Ecology Category: Social

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Common Eastern Velvet Ant (Dasymutilla occidentalis)

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Common Eastern Velvet Ant from S Timberland Dr, Lufkin, TX, US on May 07, 2020 at 05:11 PM by haleytr

# data[].attributes.body
Location Lat: 33.025279
Lon: -97.67559
Locality: Ecoregion, Tx
Date: 8/26/19
Collector: mistoffolesse
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Megalopygidae
Ecology Category: Leaf Chweing

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Southern Flannel Moth (Megalopyge opercularis)

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Southern Flannel Moth from Boyd on October 26, 2019 at 11:35 PM by mistoffoleese

# data[].attributes.body
Location Lat: 30.232397
Lon: -97.768622
Locality: Austin, Tx
Date: 5/10/20
Collector: leader
Order:Lepidoptera
Family: Erebidae
Ecology Category: Night

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Bride Underwing from Gamez Cove, Austin, TX, US on May 10, 2020 at 06:15 PM by Patrick Deese

# data[].attributes.body
Location Lat:  29.62966
Lon: -98.779241
Locality: San Antonio, Tx
Date: 4/26/20
Collector: minnapaul9
Order: Zygentoma
Family: Lepismatidae
Ecology Category: Aquatic Adult

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Common Silverfish on April 26, 2020 at 05:59 PM by Minna Paul

# data[].attributes.body
Location Lat: 30.62091
Lon: -96.325638
Locality: College Station, Tx
Date: 5/9/20
Collector: chasecorrington
Order: Mantodea
Family: Mantidae
Ecology Category: Insect Predator

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Carolina Mantis from S Texas Ave, College Station, TX, US on May 09, 2020 at 03:42 PM by chasecorrington

# data[].attributes.body
Location Lat: 29.688964
Lon: -98.353064
Locality: Comal County, Tx
Date: 5/9/20
Collector: franhutchins
Order: Phasmida
Family: Diapheromeridae
Ecology Category: Cryptic Color

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Giant Walkingstick from Comal County, TX, USA on May 09, 2020 at 12:21 PM by Fran Hutchins

# data[].attributes.body
Location Lat:  31.630604
Lon: -94.644898
Locality: Nacogdoches, Tx
Date: 5/3/20
Collector: Ospr3y
Order: Diptera
Family: Culicidae
Ecology Category: NA

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Eastern Treehole Mosquito from Nacogdoches, TX, USA on May 03, 2020 at 07:01 PM by Liam Wolff

# data[].attributes.body
Location Lat: 33.211187
Lon: -97.15518
Locality: Denton, Tx
Date: 5/8/20
Collector: Josue_oudin
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Megachilidae
Ecology Category: Pollinator

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Blueberry Mason Bee from University of North Texas, Denton, TX, US on May 08, 2020 at 03:52 PM by josue_oudin

# data[].attributes.body
Location Lat: 29.725022
Lon: -95.806488
Locality: Katy, Tx
Date: 4/30/20
Collector: mabear2018
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Cerambycidae
Ecology Category:

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Cottonwood Borer from Banning Park Ct, Katy, TX, US on April 30, 2020 at 06:12 PM by mabear2018

# data[].attributes.body
Location Lat: 29.753573
Lon: -99.828718
Locality: Leakey, Tx
Date: 4/20/20
Collector: Davenport
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Pimpilidae
Ecology Category: Insect Predator

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
New World Tarantula-hawk Wasps (Genus Pepsis)

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
New World Tarantula-hawk Wasps from Leakey, Texas, United States on April 30, 2020 at 12:44 PM by Tripp Davenport. FM 337 Campwood/Leakey Road in Real County Texas

# data[].attributes.body
Location Lat: 31.388722
Lon: -94.098164
Locality: Bronson, Tx
Date: 5/22/19
Collector: dandybiologist
Order: Diptera
Family: Oestridae
Ecology Category: Vert Parasite

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Bot Flies from 4735 FM 1751, Bronson, TX, US on May 22, 2019 at 01:32 PM by dandybiologist. I'm not confident in my ID, someone help me out with this one.

# data[].attributes.body
Location Lat:  31.588551
Lon: -95.363059

Locality: Anderson County, Tx

Date: 4/18/20
Collector: Eric_keith
Order: Blattodea
Family: Rhinotermididae
Ecology Category: Deadwood Inhabitant/ House Pest/ Social

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Eastern Subterranean Termite from Anderson County, TX, USA on April 18, 2020 at 01:32 PM by Eric Keith

# data[].attributes.body
Location Lat: 29.203301
Lon: -95.510968
Locality: Holiday Lakes, Tx
Date: 5/9/20
Collector: kdrinnen
Order: Spirobolida
Family: Spirobolidae
Ecology Category: Leaf Chewer

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
American Giant Millipede (Narceus americanus)

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
American Giant Millipede from Fourth Ct, Holiday Lakes, TX, US on May 09, 2020 at 04:55 PM by kdrinnen

# data[].attributes.body
Location Lat: 30.729887
Lon: -97.240521
Locality: Milliam, Tx
Date: 5/5/20
Collector: eaneubauer
Order: Lithobiomorpha
Family: Lithobiidae
Ecology Category: Insect Predator

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Brown Centipede from Alligator Creek, Milam County, TX, USA on April 27, 2020 at 10:15 AM by Eric

# data[].attributes.body
Location Lat: NA
Lon: NA
Locality: Santa Ana, Tx
Date: 2/28/10
Collector: Mike Quinn
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Ecology Category: Insect Predator

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Photo#374466

Santa Ana NWR, Alamo, Hidalgo County, Texas, USA
February 28, 2010

Det. E. G. Riley, 2010

This undescribed sp. hosts on Bernardia myricifolia - Range in Texas per USDA Plants Database

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Bernardia Flea Beetle - Syphrea - BugGuide.Net

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Photo#374466 Santa Ana NWR, Alamo, Hidalgo County, Texas, USAFebruary 28, 2010 Det. E. G. Riley, 2010 This undescribed sp. hosts on Bernardia myricifolia - Range in Texas per USDA Plants Database

# data[].attributes.body
Location Lat: NA
Lon: NA
Locality: San Marcos, Tx
Date: 9/9/14
Collector: Genemajors
Order: Diptera
Family: Neriidae
Ecology Category: Pollinator

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Late evenings in central Texas likes wine glasses. Mosquito sized. - Odontoloxozus longicornis - BugGuide.Net

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
An online resource devoted to North American insects, spiders and their kin, offering identification, images, and information.

# data[].attributes.body
Location Lat: NA
Lon: NA
Locality: Webb County, Tx
Date: 12/11/12
Collector: Jose Hernandez
Order: Orthoptera
Family: Gryllidae
Ecology Category: Night/Acoustic

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
South Texas Cricket - Gryllus - BugGuide.Net

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
An online resource devoted to North American insects, spiders and their kin, offering identification, images, and information.

# data[].attributes.body
Location Lat: NA
Lon: NA
Locality: Rocksprings, Tx
Date: 8/19/12
Collector: Jason Penney
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Ecology Category: Social

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Photo#631440

Near Rocksprings, Edwards County, Texas, USA
April 19, 2012

Found this single ant roaming near the entrance of a small cave on the side of a hill south east of Rocksprings, Texas. He was about 1/3 of an inch in length. I noticed him because he was fairly large by ant standards. It was taken about 2am. Location Mapped on Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/centavo/7093099263/in/photostream)

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Photo#631440 Near Rocksprings, Edwards County, Texas, USAApril 19, 2012 Found this single ant roaming near the entrance of a small cave on the side of a hill south east of Rocksprings, Texas. He was about 1/3 of an inch in length. I noticed him because he was fairly large by ant standards.

# data[].attributes.body
Location Lat: NA
Lon: NA
Locality: Mission Tx
Date: 11/8/18
Collector: Jatai
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Megachilidae
Ecology Category: Leaf Cutter

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Photo#1631428

This female leafcutter was identified by Texas bee expert Jack Neff as Megachile chichimeca (along with the male bee shown here: https://bugguide.net/node/view/1631438 ).

The male and female bee were found feeding together at the National Butterfly Center on low croton (Croton humilis), along with several other leafcutters of the same type, also feeding on woolly croton.

According to Dr. Neff, this is a common leafcutter species in southern border areas of Texas. It is endemic to Mexico.

According to references below, some hallmark traits of Megachile chichimeca are: it is small and slender; there are prominent tufts of white hairs located near the base of the bee's wings; the back edge of the bee's thorax is fringed with white hairs; the bee's wings are dusky near the back edges; females have a bump on the middle of the edge of the clypeus; males have three teeth on each jaw, with a wide middle tooth that is pointed on either side, so that it looks a little like two teeth; and the scopal hairs on the females' abdomens are white toward the front and rust-colored toward the back.

References:

Cockerell, Wilmatte P. "Collecting Bees in Southern Texas." Journal of the New York Entomological Society, vol. 25.3 (1917): 187-193 at 192). [Megachile chichimeca appears under the name Megachile disparipennis]

Cresson, E. T. "Descriptions of new North American Hymenoptera in the collection of the American Entomological Society." Transactions of the American Entomological Society, vol. 7 (1878): 61-136 at 97.

Michener, Charles D. The Bees of the World, 2nd ed. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, p. 579. (This places M. Chichimeca in the subgenus Neochelynia).

Mitchell, Theodore B. "A Revision of the Genus Megachile in the Nearctic Region. Part II. Morphology of the Male Sternites and Genital Armature and the Taxonomy of the Subgenera Litomegachile, Neomegachile and Cressoniella (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)." Transactions of the American Entomological Society, vol. 61, no. 1 (1935): 1-44 at 39.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Leafcutter Bee from Tex/Mex border - Megachile chichimeca - BugGuide.Net

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Photo#1631428 This female leafcutter was identified by Texas bee expert Jack Neff as Megachile chichimeca (along with the male bee shown here: https://bugguide.net/node/view/1631438 ). The male and female bee were found feeding together at the National Butterfly Center on low croton (Croton humilis), along with several other leafcutters of the same type, also feeding on woolly croton.

# data[].attributes.body
Location Lat: NA
Lon: NA
Locality: Chambers, Tx
Date: 4/26/08
Collector: David Sarkozi
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Coccinellidae
Ecology Category: Insect Predator

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Photo#179183

Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge, Chambers County, Texas, USA
April 26, 2008

Could this be Polished Lady Beetle - Cycloneda munda, the guide doesn't show any other Texas records, or even neighboring states.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Cycloneda spp. - Cycloneda sanguinea - BugGuide.Net

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Photo#179183 Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge, Chambers County, Texas, USAApril 26, 2008 Could this be Polished Lady Beetle - Cycloneda munda, the guide doesn't show any other Texas records, or even neighboring states.

# data[].attributes.body
Location Lat: NA
Lon: NA
Locality: Williamson Cy, Tx
Date: 11/9/05
Collector: E Moon
Order: Odanata
Family: Lestidae
Ecology Category: NA

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Photo#36971

Williamson County, Texas, USA
November 9, 2005

This was our first clear observation (and photograph) of the smaller spreadwing which has shown up at the pond in the past few weeks. Both males and one female were seen, the female laying eggs in a withered leaf of water iris. The identification as _Lestes disjunctus_ is based on the description and photograph in _Dragonflies and Damselflies of Texas and the South-Central United States, by Dr. John Abbott.

This individual perched on various low sites--grasses, twigs, iris leaf--and was routinely hassled by the larger Great Spreadwing and several Yellow-legged Meadowhawks when it flew over the pond itself. Meanwhile, the female came to the underside of a bent withered water iris leaf and began laying her eggs.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Common Spreadwing - Lestes australis - BugGuide.Net

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Photo#36971 Williamson County, Texas, USANovember 9, 2005 This was our first clear observation (and photograph) of the smaller spreadwing which has shown up at the pond in the past few weeks. Both males and one female were seen, the female laying eggs in a withered leaf of water iris.

# data[].attributes.body
Location Lat: NA
Lon: NA
Locality: Blanco, Tx
Date: 2/13/16
Collector: Dick Locke
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Ecology Category:

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Small Orange and Black Butterfly from the Texas Hill Country - Vanessa atalanta - BugGuide.Net

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
An online resource devoted to North American insects, spiders and their kin, offering identification, images, and information.

# data[].attributes.body
Location Lat: NA
Lon: NA
Locality: Austin, Tx
Date: 11/9/09
Collector: Greg W. Lasley
Order: Diptera
Family: Sarcophagidae
Ecology Category: House Pest

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
An online resource devoted to North American insects, spiders and their kin, offering identification, images, and information.

# data[].attributes.body
Location Lat: NA
Lon: NA
Locality: Austin, Tx
Date: 7/19/07
Collector: Christopher Adam
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Cicadidae
Ecology Category: NA

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Superb Cicada in Texas - Neotibicen superbus - BugGuide.Net

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
An online resource devoted to North American insects, spiders and their kin, offering identification, images, and information.

# data[].attributes.body
Location Lat: 29.89625
Lon: -98.200887
Locality: Canyon Lake, Tx
Date: 8/11/2017
Collector: mediocre
Order: Orthoptera
Family: Acrididae
Ecology Category: Leaf Chewing

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Showy Grasshopper from Canyon Lake, TX, USA on August 11, 2017 at 04:48 PM by mediocre. Striking grasshopper on a leaf.

# data[].attributes.body
Location Lat: NA
Lon: NA
Locality: Asherton, Texas
Date: 11/18/16
Collector: Kim Smith
Order: Odonata
Family:  Libellulidae
Ecology Category: Insect Pradator

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Photo#1320168

Asherton, Dimmit County, Texas, USA
November 18, 2016

It was near a large water hole, but seemed to be staying around the dry bare ground areas. A hint of orange at the base of the wings.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Red dragonfly - possible red-tailed pennant - Brachymesia furcata - BugGuide.Net

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Photo#1320168 Asherton, Dimmit County, Texas, USANovember 18, 2016 It was near a large water hole, but seemed to be staying around the dry bare ground areas. A hint of orange at the base of the wings.