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Bug From The Backyard!

VickyChaiTea

VickyChaiTea

Snake enthusiast
We're moving into a new house and the entire backyard was absolutely wild, full of tons of inverts. I had a blast just rummaging around. Found a crud ton of grasshoppers, worms, isopods, spiders, and a million other things I could not ID for the life of me. Here are the pictures!

There where about a million of these guys on a branch. I have no clue what they are. Any help with the ID?
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Some species of grasshopper.
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Will continue in next post...
 
This BEAUTIFUL Banded Garden Spider (a type of orb web, Argiope trifasciata)
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Little American House Spider, Parasteatoda tepidariorum
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Funnel Web Spider, Agelenosis spp.
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Random clutch of babies. No clue what they where.
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Those first bugs you pictured remind me of box elder bugs. We used to have a ton of them in a tree at a house I grew up in.
 
That's what I was going to say. Some relative of box elder bugs. Remember how they smell???
 
I absolutely adored rollie-pollies when I was little; and now my son loves them too! Nice pictures!
 
Gold star to everyone who guessed box elder bug for the red insects in the first few pictures. Those are the nymphs, babies, of box elder bugs.

I really liked all the spider pictures.
Thanks for sharing.
 
I love that banded garden spider. I remember similar ones from when I was a kid growing up on a farm. They liked to hang out in the blackberry bushes. It made blackberry picking quite an adventure :).
 
AAAAAAH! I'M SO EXCITED! Found a little garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis?) And another species of orb weaver. LOVE IT!
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Black and Yellow Garden Spider (Argiope aurinata)
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Another Agelenosis spp.
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And an as of yet unidentified species of Amber Snail.
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