Pulled from fountain
Part of a large ladybeetle washup observed this evening along the high water line. Mostly beetles (lady beetles, Alticini, some weevils), adult hemipterans, winged carpenter ants, some ichneumonids. Mostly flying insects, but also saw some carabids and a Tenebrionid beetle among the washup. SO many insects! I'd never witnessed anything like this before.
Emerged from a section of Vernonia fasciculata stem with galls. One other wasp emerged from this stem: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/217390895
Gall observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/202076225