if I want to dig deeper, a computer to search the field book results. Maybe a call to your local entomologist for sources or ideas.

There's a small fly I can't figure out, biting midge or punkie (family Ceratopogonidae I think). Annoying little bastards but then about the first part of July around here they stop.

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I've looked online and got some books from the library, some are real similar to what I find, but just not sure. I've really come to enjoy walking around my flowers and finding new bugs. I find myself enjoying that almost as much as the flowers themselves. I'll look to my extension office, thanks for the suggestions. Saw these tonight, an unknown butterfly and I think a juvenile stinkbug!

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Peace

Like yourself, I enjoy wandering around trying to ID stuff too. Strictly amateur. As they say, there's a whole world out there. I started with birds and animals, then realized plants, trees, bugs, weeds etc. are pretty much a captive audience for identifying. They hold still.

Nice photos by the way.

That does look likesome sort of stink bug variety, though nothing I've seen here in Georgia. Not sure of the moth species either.