It seems very wrong now, but there were also no seatbelts and people also were often passengers in the back of pickup trucks. I am saying the dog is somewhat in the safest place.

I agree with Linda. Its Photoshopped.

Y'all can handle it. I have tried to spread the targets around!

In what way is it not recognized? Does it even appear as a peripheral device?
Rather than putting the card straight into your computer, try an SD card reader if you have one. No harm in trying.

I've never had a card fail on me. But I am probably just lucky.

Last summer I chose to return to Ohio to spend a few days “bugging” the local parks with a camera. I had gone late the previous summer, but this trip was done much earlier. Here are some of the critters that I had found, beginning with moths.
First up is a Tulip Tree Beauty Caterpillar (Epimecis hortaria). This will become an intricately patterned moth with variable color patterns that resembles tree bark.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53634813189_459463b1bf_b.jpgTulip Tree Beauty cat by Mark Sturtevant, on Flickr

An Orange-patched Smoky Moth, Pyromorpha dimidiate. Larvae feed on decaying leaves in oak woods. The moth is clearly a mimic of one the toxic Net-winged Beetles, but I don’t know if this is a case of Batesian mimicry, where the beetle is the only one with a defense, or Müllerian mimicry, where both species taste bad and so they mimic one another.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53634812229_454bff67df_b.jpgOrange-patched Smoky moth by Mark Sturtevant, on Flickr

Deep in the woods, these boldly marked moths were quite common on the low vegetation, although they seldom allowed me to get close. It is one of the Haploa Moths (which is in the Tiger Moth family), but there are maybe three species that are similar and I can’t be sure of the exact one. I can say that it is a dead ringer for Haploa lecontei.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53634923225_65375a3d8a_b.jpgHaploa Moth by Mark Sturtevant, on Flickr

Next up is a Robberfly (Laphria sp). These robust predatory flies mimic bumble bees, and perhaps that is to persuade predators to avoid them. But one can suspect that they also benefit by not alerting their prey that they are in any danger. When I found this one, it had recently hauled in a Golden-backed Snipe Fly (Chrysopilus thoracicus), which is a challenge since those insects are quite alert. The Snipe Fly was still struggling.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53633586677_c5739d63c5_b.jpgRobber Fly by Mark Sturtevant, on Flickr

Next up are a pair of Leaf-footed Bugs, Acanthocephala sp. The female is feeding on bird poo, which is a thing that these bugs often do.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53633586202_e0c5200623_b.jpgLeaf-footed bugs by Mark Sturtevant, on Flickr

I was quite happy to see this Cocklebur Weevil, Rhodobaenus quinquepunctatus. Larvae bore into cocklebur stems and in other members of the sunflower family. I suspect it is a Batesian mimic of the toxic milkweed bug
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53634922855_35f0846b75_b.jpgCocklebur Weevil by Mark Sturtevant, on Flickr

Here are a group of black-headed Ash Sawfly larvae, Tethida barda. Although they resemble butterfly caterpillars, sawfly larvae actually grow up into stingless wasps. Like caterpillars, they too are vegetarians, and so this is a case of convergent evolution.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53634923570_7c8c4c35af_b.jpgSawfly Larvae by Mark Sturtevant, on Flickr

There were quite a few of these Stoneflies near a river. I cannot even begin to ID them with any confidence. The immature stages of these archaic-looking insects are aquatic.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53633587002_0aebfffc29_b.jpgStoneflies by Mark Sturtevant, on Flickr

The terrain gets quite hilly farther south in the state, and so the park trails there would send me down deep gorges. Along these trails the rocks and trees were generously festooned with large millipedes (the size of pencils) that I think belong to the Narceus americanus/annularis species complex. The taxonomy in the group appears to be messy and someone needs to sort them out.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53634476171_d2301502b6_b.jpgMillipede by Mark Sturtevant, on Flickr
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53633586307_06dee161f0_b.jpgMillipede by Mark Sturtevant, on Flickr

Lastly, here is an interesting spider, the Humpbacked Orbweaver, Eustela anastera with an unknown moth as prey. I don't remember if I've ever seen one before.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53634690133_78063f2eda_b.jpgHumpbacked Orbweaver by Mark Sturtevant, on Flickr

Thank you for looking!

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Those are quite good! 👍

Thank you, everyone! I will be back soon. Meanwhile I have a new diffuser and camera body to play with this season.

Here are more pictures from the previous summer. I have been very slow in sending them out.
Beetles dominate this small batch. First up is a Rove Beetle, possibly Platydracus, from a staged focus stacking session on the dining room table. Rove beetles form a large family of very active predatory beetles (Staphylinidae), and they are easily identified by their short wing covers. They can be difficult to photograph since sitting still is not what they do, so I got this one to pause for a moment on a perch.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53556935528_e69bf5fdbb_b.jpgRove Beetle by Mark Sturtevant, on Flickr

Next up is a pea-sized Dung Beetle, Canthon sp. There were several of these trundling around little balls of dung in the amazing place I call the Magic Field, where one can find critters that I see nowhere else. I tried hard to get pictures of them rolling their little treasures, but they would immediately stop and bury themselves in the soft soil on approach, refusing to come out and do what Dung Beetles do best. I hope better luck this season. Dung Beetles are in another large family, the Scarabaeidae. I think most species have nothing to do with dung, but rather feed on roots, leaves, pollen, or fruits.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53557075764_6d1646acc4_b.jpgDung Beetle by Mark Sturtevant, on Flickr

Here is a small beetle from another large family called the Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae). No matter the species, Leaf Beetles seem to always be are bright and shiny, and they sit out in the open on vegetation. I somehow always know that I have a leaf beetle, even if the species is new to me as this one was. This one is the Sumac Flea Beetle Blepharida rhois. Flea Beetles are Leaf Beetles that can jump.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53557188830_fcb5182275_b.jpgSumac Leaf Beetle by Mark Sturtevant, on Flickr

Next up is an Assassin Bug, Zelus luridus. These common predators in the Hemipteran family Reduviidae can be found openly lurking on leaves along forest trails. Their extremely laconic nature makes me wonder how they ever catch anything.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53557075434_9b40f078d0_b.jpgAssassin Bug by Mark Sturtevant, on Flickr

The caterpillar shown in the next picture is the Bronzed Cutworm, Nephelodes minians. The larvae are generalist feeders on grasses, and are considered a pest on cultivated crops. No doubt I’ve seen many of the brown adult moths at the porch light, but there are so many species of “little brown jobbies” in their family (Noctuidae), that I doubt I would know them on sight. This larva was strangely inactive. Even moribund. It was either about to pupate, or it was terminally parasitized.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53555886687_8192a29e0d_b.jpgBronzed Cutworm by Mark Sturtevant, on Flickr

Back at the Magic Field, in the very early season one can find nymphs of my favorite grasshopper, the Coral-winged Grasshopper Pardalophora apiculata. These spend the winter as nymphs (in fact I just got back from visiting this field in February during a freakish warm spell, and sure enough the wintering nymphs were revived and hopping everywhere). But come this spring they will quickly grow up to be a robust Band-Winged Grasshopper with pinkish-orange hind wings, as can be seen in the link. They are a delight to watch as they ponderously launch themselves to fly, but they never fly far owing to their chonkyness. The Magic Field proudly hosts at least six different species of Band-winged grasshoppers alone. Grasshoppers in this group usually have brightly colored hind wings, which among other things are used as a kind of deception to fool predators into thinking that they brightly colored, while in fact when at rest they are well camouflaged. Band-wings belong to the short-horned grasshopper family Acrididae.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53555886277_01d934cd30_b.jpgCoral-winged Grasshopper by Mark Sturtevant, on Flickr

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Interesting. I don't know other than that it should emerge as a moth.

I got my wife a Fitbit Charge something-or-other. She loves it, but sometimes it does not sync with the phone either.

If the Admin wants to ban all copyright cartoons that are shared widely anyway, then that is one thing. All I've read here is about a Gary Larson cartoon, but that is a bit different.

I will be following this bc posting cartoons (mostly memes, but cartoons included) is a thing I like to do. Three points.

1. Found cartoons on the internet - on various social media sites like Facebook, are already posted on a lot of sites. Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, etc. If there are copyright violations they are violated up and down, left and right.

2. There is fair use, although I am not sure how that applies to UHH. The poster (like me) is not profiting, but maybe the Admins at UHH are concerned since there are ads here and someone is presumably profiting? No idea who or how. But that seems to be a legit point. I will watch out for that.

3. About Gary Larson and Beyond the Far Side. Those cartoons are a known exception. The managers of those cartoons are definitely trying to not have them be posted w/o permission. That is why the Admin here has singled out Gary Larson cartoons. It's like posting Disney stuff. Don't . Do . It.

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Very good stuff!