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Hatching! They emerge orange and dry to black with a red abdomen.

Collected egg cluster on Dec 2, 2020 from Post Oak. Original observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/66029340

Det. J. Hoskins, 2023
coll'ed beating
spmn in the TAMUIC

left

neat comparison

Incredibly colorful individual

On a burdock leaf. Host-feeding on a leaf miner.

On flowers of Florida Firebush

hunting near catclaw acacia

on sweetbush

I believe it may be the Black and Gold or Sonoran, but these have 3 yellow stripes on the abdomen.

web low in Acacia

On a stickseed plant in my backyard.

Species is mostly a guess.

Workers where crowded around a nest opening with a few males. This species had preformed nuptial flights that night.

narrow edge of salt marsh, salt-encrusted soils + sparse saltgrass

Reared from larva of Melipotini moth:
Host: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/89275397

A breeding pair with 4 eggs. Captured prey including a mouse and a skink.

Several hundred clinging to the upper stems of an isolated brittle bush. I count 43 here and there were 7 other similar clusters.

On Coreopsis. Spaces of Opportunity gardens

under oak woody debris

Seen at the Zoo, not a captive bird, just an opportunist

A big one.

Photo credit: Rodrigo Izquierdo
www.reaglephotography.com