More Bugs!

I've been looking for these guys for years! I never find them! Unfortunately I dropped him onto the sidewalk and I think he might have been injured. A bunch of green wet stuff came out...might have been pee though. He was still crawling around pretty good when I picked him back up!!

A simple ladybug. I'm trying to get my daughter to like bugs so we took a "nature walk" which consisted of me stopping beside the sidewalk whenever we came to a field with milkweed and goldenrod! Amazing how many cool bugs you can find if you look!

I took this because there is a crazy looking flying insect towards the upper left part of the picture. It is colored like a yellow jacket and looks like it will sting you but I think it is harmless. I have heard of flies that look like bees but I'd never seen one! I was going to grab it until I saw a ton of what you can see in the lower right hand corner! Nah!!
Ugh. Aphids all over the milkweed everywhere!! And ants farming them too! I was going to pick a stalk of milkweed for the monarch but I do NOT want to bring aphids home!!!