A praying mantis before and after flying into an argiope web and having to chew a bunch of silk off their forelimbs

Mais il n'y a rien là pour la Science. Editor, New York Review of Wasps.
A praying mantis before and after flying into an argiope web and having to chew a bunch of silk off their forelimbs
A wonderful variety of wasp nests in this disused electrical junction box—enclosed yellowjacket nests, broad-open paper wasp nests, mud dauber mud tube nests, and, bafflingly, a mud-dauber nest built onto a paper wasp nest with no actual attachment to the wall??
A tree cricket! I don’t know which sort, but it seems to be just as fond of sneaking into our office as the field crickets are.
Another tree cricket, which looks to me to be the wider-winged male of the same species (@sedge suggests narrow-winged tree cricket, which seems correct). I love the woven-looking pattern of thin green lines on the wings!