These are from a trip to Sawgrass Lake Park in mid June.

I’m not sure if these are aphids. They don’t look like the aphids I’ve seen on fruit trees before, and are smaller than the pictures on the net relative to the ant’s size, but these ants were certainly tending them.

brown anole

seven legged golden silk spider

This black and yellow garden spider was busy building its web, acrobating its way around on the support threads

broad winged katydid

there was a lot of this vine around the park this time. I believe its an invasive called air potato

Mike took this one. Beautiful helmet eyes.

At the end of our walk, something bitey must have gotten caught under my camara bag strap because I had huge itchy welts along my back by the time we got home. And all I got for it was this butterfly picture, probably a black swallowtail.