Unidentified Tetrigidae. Possibly Tetrix sp.
This wasp mimics paper wasps of the genus Polistes. It is carrying a Golden Silk Spider, Trichoniphila clavipes. The same species of spider shown in the link. When I saw this wasp I thought it was a member of the Polistes colony that was above my head. I thought how is this wasp going to get this large prey up to that nest . I also couldn't recall Polistes preying on spiders. It couldn't be Polistes but it looked exactly like the wasps above.
Found on the trunk of a dead tree.
Nymphalidae; Satyrinae; Melanitis leda leda Linnaeus, 1758. The first photo shows a Common Evening Brown sitting at the entrance to a rice field. The other three photos were taken of another specimen of the same species in the rice field, just two or three yards from the first. I put them together in one spotting because the first picture gives a reasonably good representation of the species and the others (taken where a direct view was impossible) show how a different perspective can change the outline shape considerably.
A Batesian mimic of the Pipevine Swallowtail.
Found growing out of the leaf litter in a mixed forest.
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