Yellow insects

A blue jay came for brunch.  I swam in the morning because a thunderstorm was predicted for the afternoon.  A bee or something stung me because it had climbed up on my suit and I didn't realize it was there.  I didn't rescue it or anything else, though a spider was walking around on the surface tension.  A long-tailed bird that I think was a mockingbird checked out the wild cherries.  At lease three Carolina wrens checked out me as I floated in the shade.  They kept hopping around in the red cedar so I couldn't be sure if there were more than three.

When I got out, I found a black beetle with yellow markings on the mountain mint that I've seen in other years, but I couldn't remember what it was.  No wonder, I had identified it as Macrosiagon dimidata.  Not a memorable name.  A variegated fritillary made the rounds.  A blue dasher and a great blue skimmer perched, but they didn't stick around.  Impressive clouds in the afternoon spat out about seven drops of rain.  

A hummer went to the feeder but then flew around the corner, so maybe the sugar water went off in the heat.  Another blue jay visited.  A Carolina wren pecked at the suet.  A tiger swallowtail feasted on the butterfly milkweed.  I suspect it was newly emerged and very hungry.  The Argiope started pumping its web and then ran up out of sight briefly.  I guess it caught something.  The day never got as hot as the NWS heat warning suggested, but it was humid.  The thunderstorm finally arrived about 6:30pm and was still growling hours later.