More photos recently submitted by residents!

 

Diane Steinbach met up with a black and yellow argiope, Argiope aurantia, these are common throughout FishHawk Ranch.

Greg Dean got a few shots of another critter that is plentiful in the area,  the sandhill crane, Grus canadensis 

Kannan Deivasigamani submitted some recently taken macro photos. The wasp is a cicada killer,

Sphecius speciosus, which are the large wasps that dig holes at the edges of our driveways and sidewalks. They paralyze cicadas with their sting, pull them into the burrow and lay an egg on it.