Spelling should be Meloidae. Have to be careful picking them up. The secretion can cause blisters and irritation. When they occur in hay they can upset the digestion of simpler stomach animals such as horses.

It is indeed a blister beetle in the Family Melodidae.

I second this recommendation. Weather sealed, no change of lens needed and very versatile. Has a clear image zoom feature that takes you to 1200 mm that is useful when you can't get close enough to use only the 600 mm. 4k Video, shoot jpeg, jpeg and raw at the same time.
Last camera you will buy for a long time.

How many Squirrels did you poll to establish this statistic? Just curious. Got up too early.

Must have gotten lots of flowers.

My guess would be a giant water bug, Family Belostomatidae.

That bubble probably contains digestive enzymes that they deposit on their food and then suck up the liquid solution. Also contains microorganisms that are often causes diseases. Not a good insect as adults.

Buy an older lens with a manual aperture control and you can control the aperture with a reversed lens. Try for an f1.4 or f1.8 lens so you can let in more light if necessary. The lower mm lens (eg. 28 vs 50) gives higher magnifications.

From my understanding of Macro, this lens only give a 1:2 or .5x pic thus the pic is 1/2 the size of a 1:1 pic from a true Macro lens at its closest focal point. Not a true macro lens.

I set specimens on a dry frozen blue ice block covered with thin paper the color I want for a background to keep them cool so they stay still until I can photography them. I often bring them out of a refrigerator to the copy stand. Using LED lights reduces the amount of heat generated. If you use daylight incandescence or even florescent bulbs heat is generated quickly and the specimens warm too fast.
Spiders seem to have a much lower threshold for cold than insects thus must be kept at a lower temperature to temporary reduce movement.

I would like to know how others members reduce movements of specimens while photographing. I suppose a block of dry ice would be even colder. In a smaller town this may be hard to find.

Very good photographs. The fungus appears to be growing out of an arthropod. I will see if I can find an entomologist or mycologist that specializes in arthropod fungi to see if they can ascertain the fungus type.

If the photographs are in folders highlight the folder and click on command I and it will give the info on the size of that folder and the number of items in that folder.

It could be Mount Powell, at 10,168 ft. The next highest peak is Deer Lodge Mountain, at 9765 ft.
It is increasing hard to get landscape pics without human artifacts when photographing from roads.

Never is a long time. Nature as a way of healing itself.

This is a giant nutsedge inflorescence. Some people call this nutgrass but it is not a grass. It has 3-ranked leaves, a triangular stem and the last set of leaves arise immediately below the inflorescence.
Grass leaves are 2-ranked, the stem is round and the last leaves are usually far below the inflorescence.
When you look down on a grass or sedge you will notice the leaves are in two (as in corn or three rows (as in a sedge) - thus their leaf ranking.