Insects to the light.

Many other varieties of insect come to the moth light, and this post will show some that came in on a night up in the foothill forest. Beetles were very numerous, this species was more interesting than the large scarabs that flocked in.

Not a beetle but a handsome species of bug.

Again, not a beetle but a bark cockroach, also a handsome insect.

Click beetles are common visitors to the light.

As are longicorn beetles.

And wasps.

Wolf spiders often wander in to see what’s going on.

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