Earlier this week, I was in the field looking for smooth earth snakes with a colleague, and I observed this interesting collection of developing invertebrates on the side of a rock that I flipped.
Here they are a bit closer.
I have seen many things but never something like this. So, this is a real challenge since I don’t even know what the heck these things are.
How does Friday, June 1st look for meeting me up in Marshall Co. to set some turtle traps?
I think you got it…
http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/misc/beetles/banded_net-winged04.htm
How about a net winged beetle?
http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&source=mog&hl=en&gl=us&client=safari&tab=wi&q=calopteron%20discrepans&sa=N&biw=480&bih=268#i=5
Calopteran discrepans
I didn’t. The colleague I met was Greg Sievert from ESU. He wanted more photographs of them. After my students and I left, he spent another 3 hours herping around and discovered a gravid female SES under a rotting log.
At first glance, I thought maybe they were house centipede larvae (Scutigera coleoptrata). I couldn’t find an image to match though… Regardless, I guess this is my first stab at your query. Did you find any smooth earth snakes?