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spgfr Delmar, MD Jun 05, 2016

Image 1 - body not more than 2mm long. Solitary bee?
Image 2 - Unusual stance for the moths around here.
Image 3 - I think this one is around 5-6mm long. I thought it was a spider at first glance.

Thanks...

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Jun 05, 2016

The first one is a parasitic wasp in the family Chalcididae; it looks like something in the genus Brachymeria – these mostly are primary parasitoids of butterfly and moth pupae but a few attack muscoid Diptera or are secondary parasitoids of tachinid and sarcophagid Diptera parasitizing Lepidoptera and Orthoptera.
I don’t recognize the moth right off; will get back to it and in the meantime, someone else might nail it.
The third one is an aphid; if your size estimate is accurate, it would just about have to be in the subfamily Lachninae (giant aphids).

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Jun 05, 2016

I believe that the moth is a pyralid - see http://www.pbase.com/tmurray74/image/101830488 for an example - but I have no idea as to the species...

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