The heat returned, this time with humid, sticky air. We picked blueberries and it was not pleasant. I was very glad to get into the water and cool off. The little Argiope seemed settled in among the mountain mint stalks. The orchard spider also seemed quite settled. I rescued a small spider that looked like it might grow up to be a marbled orbweaver, or something in the Araneus genus. Also, I fished out a planthopper, Acanalonia conica, and the usual batch of May beetles. I tried to get the planthopper to come up to the house for a photo shoot but instead I got to see it fly away. The same insects were back on the mountain mint: leafcutter bees, carpenter bees, the hairstreak and the duskywing, and thread-waisted wasps. A blue dasher obelisked on a twig. A woodpecker went after cherries. All I got was blurs, but it might have been a flicker. Birds were not plentiful.
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