Steve Creek Outdoors

See if you can find the spider in the above photo. If you think you know where it is then leave me a comment. If you give up then I will post another photo to help you locate it.
Note: You can click on my photos to see a larger view.

Cicadas like heat and do their most spirited singing during the hotter hours of a summer day.

The mature male (shown above) has an unmarked powder blue body, with white appendages on the tip of the abdomen. The eyes are green.
The females and immature males look markedly different from the mature males. Their bodies are green with black markings on the abdomen, and the abdomen becomes progressively blacker toward the rear. Their [...]

I took a front facing photo of this pondhawk dragonfly eating a damselfly and this is the side view.

Many of these species prey on each other but Dragonflies typically eat mosquitoes, and other small insects like flies, bees, ants and butterflies. They are therefore valued as predators, since they help control populations of harmful insects.

Like dragonflies, damselflies are not pests. They are considered beneficial because they eat mosquitoes and other pests.

Damselflies are similar to dragonflies, but the adults can be differentiated by the fact that the wings of most damselflies are held along, and parallel to, the body when at rest.