Observaciones de shelley_b

Rove beetle? Found on yard waste (?) can lid in daytime.

Engytatus modestus? Two found in flower of garden squash plant posted at https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/194483221

Shown with 0.5 mm grid

On 0.5 mm grid

Tentative: Gelechiidae. Found indoors.

Multiple individuals found in book just ordered from a bookstore in the U.K.

See https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/190447055 for host plant

Eclosed from pupa found on the moist underside of garden yard waste can lid.

See https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/190254340 to ID the pupa based on this adult.

Fly pupa found on the moist underside of garden yard waste can lid. See https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/190254343 for better photos of the adult that emerged.

Two rove beetles found in rotting orange in garden.

Mold on a rotting orange in garden. Microscopic images were taken using a Foldscope, and cover about half a millimeter to perhaps 3/4 of a millimeter in the longer direction.

Mold on a rotting orange in garden. Penicillium?

With eggs laid during storage in a ziploc bag.

Mites found in large numbers inside yard waste can.

Microscopic images taken using a Foldscope; the aperture measures a little under 1 mm.

Found on garden mint plant