Is there an entomologist in the room?

[Ed W]

What are these little guys?  I parked my car under our pine tree and found them all over it.  The yellow stuff is pollen.  A flock of sparrows was feasting on the little buggers.



I just washed that car yesterday.  Now it looks like yellow pixie dust.

[Red Arrow]

What are these little guys?  I parked my car under our pine tree and found them all over it.  ...  A flock of sparrows was feasting on the little buggers.

Sparrow food.

We have some hawk food in our area.  Some folks refer to them as fuzzy tailed rats.  I call them tomato eaters.

[Gaspar]

Look like maggots.  Perhaps feeding on the sap from the tree flowers?

[Ed W]

I was thinking maggots too, but they wouldn't be feeding on flowers.  This was under a pine tree.  It's too early for a bird's nest with dead chicks or rotten eggs, I think.  Maybe I could collect some and try to keep them alive until they pupate.

[lalumna]

Bag worms maybe?

[Ed W]

Bag worms spin large, loose nests with silk and house hundreds or thousands of caterpillars inside it.  They ate one of my apple trees, the little ba%#&@(#s.  Some worms drop down on a strand of silk, and in fact, there are places in the south where those are pests this spring.  But I can't remember their name.

Later in the spring, young spiders will go ballooning.  They climb atop a post, a tree, or a mailbox and send out a strand until the wind pulls them away, flying along to greener pastures - and probably guaranteeing genetic diversity among their kind.  The silk strands are discarded and they'll cover lawns with a lattice work that almost glows when it's back lit at sunset.  I haven't photographed any of them yet, but I will.