![IMG_2931](http://ibycter.mango.mikeboers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/img_2931.jpg)
Tetragnatha caudata at sunset.
OK, I am in full lockdown/practice mode for my upcoming PhD defence, so here is a collection of images without much commentary, taken at Iona Beach over the past couple weeks.
![DSCF7493](http://ibycter.mango.mikeboers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/dscf7493.jpg)
Colletes males in a sleeping aggregation.
![IMG_1718](http://ibycter.mango.mikeboers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/img_1718.jpg)
Ochlerotatus dorsalis, taking my blood.
![IMG_1725 - Copy](http://ibycter.mango.mikeboers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/img_1725-copy1.jpg)
A Phidippus, looking great as always.
![IMG_1768](http://ibycter.mango.mikeboers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/img_1768.jpg)
Bembix digging a nest.
![IMG_1775](http://ibycter.mango.mikeboers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/img_1775.jpg)
Some kind of dwarf spider. I like how the legs reflect on the shiny body.
![IMG_1796](http://ibycter.mango.mikeboers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/img_1796.jpg)
Colletes showing me his tongue.
![IMG_1868](http://ibycter.mango.mikeboers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/img_1868.jpg)
A cuckoo wasp Catherine found sleeping in dead wood.
![IMG_1998](http://ibycter.mango.mikeboers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/img_1998.jpg)
The folded legs of a sleeping Coelioxys.
![IMG_1820](http://ibycter.mango.mikeboers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/img_1820.jpg)
Colletes.
![IMG_2805](http://ibycter.mango.mikeboers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/img_2805.jpg)
My favourite bee, Coelioxys.
![IMG_2828](http://ibycter.mango.mikeboers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/img_2828.jpg)
A long-legged fly eating a mite.
![IMG_2818](http://ibycter.mango.mikeboers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/img_2818.jpg)
Coelioxys rufitarsus showing its reddish tarsi.
![IMG_2852](http://ibycter.mango.mikeboers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/img_2852.jpg)
A Stilt-legged fly (Micropezidae).
![IMG_2856](http://ibycter.mango.mikeboers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/img_2856.jpg)
Crazy heads these guys have!
![IMG_2905](http://ibycter.mango.mikeboers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/img_2905.jpg)
Aggregation of sleeping Coelioxys.
![IMG_2961](http://ibycter.mango.mikeboers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/img_2961.jpg)
Tetragnatha caudata at sunset.