A short walk with my camera and macro lens.
It's ironic how we hate weeds and invasives when we are the most invasive and weediest of all. I like the little tiny deadnettle flowers.
This year's crop of Cross Orbweavers are still small. Their eggs hatch in the spring and they grow over the summer until mating and laying a new batch in the fall. The large females are more noticeable in the fall.
According to iNaturalist, this is a little known genus of hoverflies (Melanostoma) that feed on tiny insects in leaf litter.
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