Critters in the grass and weeds....

Yesterday, everything seemed to be down in the grasses or hidden in the flower field.  Doesn't really make for pretty photos, but I am interested in all the critters I see.

There was a really big Mantis in the goldenrod.  I believe it is a Chinese Mantis and it really blends in well with its surroundings, but is so large you can see it easily once you spot one.

 This one had caught something....a bee I think.  I took a lot of photos because I think they are such weird critters and I was trying to get a really good photo of the head.  I feel like this one is looking at me and saying, "Just keep walking....it's best to mind your own business and leave me alone."

 The best I could do on the face.  Creepy critters!

 Sort of a side view of the head.

 ....and mouth

Ok...enough of this guy!

 Yellow is the color right now.  I think these are Tickseed Sunflowers.  They have such a nice size and really look pretty when you find a field of them.

.....and lots of Goldenrod.  A wasp was finding something good here.

 Down in the grass are all the little butterflies and moths.  I fear I will step on them at times!  The Eastern-tailed Blues were plentiful.

 These two tiny moths?....I'm not sure if they are different or the same kind.  

 There is a tree that the Red Admirals and other woods butterflies like, but large bushes have grown up near it and I could barely get a shot of this Admiral on the trunk.

A Sulphur on the asters.

The White's like the asters, too.

 This bee was hanging on a leaf and just dripping with pollen.  Not sure what it was doing.

Some little fungi on the path among the grass and weeds.