post your insect and invert pics...

Great stuff! I'll put up some shots later, when I'm not so lazy, but for now let me provide some ID's.

Jaysen-

1. Bluet (Enallagma species)

2, 3. Skimmers (Libellula species)

4. Orchard Spider (Leucage venusta)

5. I don't know my daddy longlegs at all; I've been trying to find a good resource on ID'ing them.

6, 7, 10. Jumping Spiders (Family Salticidae). It's a big family and I don't know the genera and species.

8, 9. I recognize this guy, but I don't know its name. Common household spider.

Too lazy to count. I don't know the genera of those flies. There's only one yellowjacket in the eastern US, Vespula maculifrons. The cicada is a dogday cicada (Tibicen species). The cricket is a juvenile Gryllus species, I think. Your 'not sures' are a box elder bug and a picture-winged fly.
 
Dark- Your ghosties are Palaemonetes paludosus; the orange bands on the antennae are distinctive.

Afro- I dunno, but it's kinky!

DHG- You've got a wolf (Family Lycosidae); I don't know any of the western wolves.
 
Nothing special but here goes...
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I found this guy around the beginning of last December in the parking lot at my work. It was on the verge of death when I found it and I had no idea what species it was. So being me I had to take it home and look it up. I found out it's an American Birdwing Grasshopper. It was pretty big too, around 3 inches long. I was going to feed it to my fish but decided not to. I fed it fresh grass and it lived for a few weeks then died. I still wonder where the heck it came from seeing how it was pretty cold outside and had frosted numerous times.

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Nice darner and hopper! Those birdwings are solitary species, but they're in the same genus as the migratory locusts that occasionally devestate various parts of the world.

Jaysen- There are lots of resources scattered around the web, but http://www.whatsthatbug.com/ is one of the most helpful.
 
I saw this at the Grampians national park in Victoria, Australia. The wasp won by the way.

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Bugs,,,creepy....
 
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