Yet another Matt

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Love birds, bees, butterflies. Also pretty much everything else. If you have any ID suggestions on any of my photos I would love the help and info. They/any.

A medium sized black bee on the vibrant orange, green, and pink coneflower. Its butt is covered in pollen.
A bright orange jelly fungus grows out of a dark, damp stick. It is shaped like a small jiggley brain, with many wrinkles and folds.
A small, mostly black wasp curls around a goldenrod flower as it takes a drink. Its got big cute eyes, smoky wings, and a cute butt.
A shiny metalic green bee with dark wings is climbing out of a purple New England Aster flower. Its face is covered in bright yellow pollen. Ita legs and antennae are also coated in pollen.
A small, grey black abd white bee hangs to a blade of sedge via its mandibles. Its legs are all tightly tucked up against its body. It is in front of my finger, for scale and to get my phone camera to focus... It is a Coelioxys bee getting g ready for sleep.
A lime green Paw Paw Sphinx Moth caterpillar covered in the cocoons of a parisitoid wasp. The caterpillar is hanging upside down on a small twig, and a full, bright red berry grows out of the twig.
A screen shot of the Rotten Tomatoes page for the film Surf Ninjas. Its tomatometer score is a dismal 23%, however its popcornmeter score is a respectable 68%. Still too low of a score, but its fair.
A sketch of a cartoon stag beetle, upright on wooden boards, dancing with a cane and waving around a top hat.
The cover of Amazing Spider-man #28. Its all black, with only the bright golden shine of molten mans body and red outlines of spider-mans web pattern and spider insignia.
The T. Ocellus alien from Alien: Earth. They look more or less like a human eyeball atop some pink and red fleshy tentacles. They are scuttling and leaving behind some goopy prints.
A four-humped stink bug (Brochymene quadripustulata). It is a mostly grayish, brownish insect with small black and orange spots all over it. It is sitting on a long, thin leaf that is also covered in spots.
A big-eyed black, grey, and white bee on a fleabane flower. It's just fuzzy enough to be conventionally cute, I think.
A black and light orange, Baltimore Oriole perches on the edge of a garden, about a foot off the ground. It is on a black iron post holding up a chain bordering the garden bed.
A digital drawing of a Pacific Trillium. Three white triangular petals sit atop three much larger triangular green leaves.
A very short and mostly round dinosaur, more or less with the features of a T. rex. Its very light green on a white background with black on its bottom edges for contrast. It has thick angry eyebrows and tiny little W's for arms. Its also wearing a simple yellow crown on its head.
A bright metalic green beetle sits on a finger. It has several white spots in the rear edge of its elytra.
Two canada geese perched menacingly yet protectively on the precipice of a tall medical building. Surveying the scene before them, ready to deal with any ne'er-do-wells in the streets below.
Two American Toads in amplexus, the smaller, lighter brown male sliding off the larger, darker females right side. They sit in a pretty shallow pool. She seems non-plussed.
The White Base (a.k.a. Trojan Horse, a.k.a. Mokuba) from Mobile Suit Gundam, floats in space while shooting an array of bright pink laser beams. It doesn't really look much like a horse. It is mostly white, though, with red, blue, and yellow accents.
A black and white photo of an American sycamore trunk, shot at a low angle. Its chipping, peeling bark casting some nice shadows.
A cartoon white-throated sparrow, sketchily drawn in pencil. Its got ridiculously large cartoony human-ish eyes. And a big round body. Tiny stick legs and feet.
A smaller, darker green wood frogs holds tight to a larger, more brown wood frog as they float around in a very shallow pool
A very loose and sketchy doodle of Virginia bluebells, blooming in front of a black background.
A white, five-petalled flower sprouts up out from some drab leaf litter. It has faint pink veins running the length of the petals.
Some witch hazel flowers are blooming in the ice and cold. The long curled petals are a nice sunset red to orange, with dark maroon seals. The branch they are on is totally enveloped in ice, with round icicles dripping down. But the flowers did not freeze over. They are wet but thawed.
A black and gold striped fly perched on a bright yellow tansy. Its got relatively long antennae for a fly and a pretty large head. Its huge golden eyes are patterned with wavy black squiggles.
A small blooming witch hazel flower, surrounded by twigs and unopened flower buds. It's backlit, but it's a bit translucent, so it really lights up its petals. It has four long and thin petals that start red at the base but fade through to yellow at the tips, like a sunset. These emerge from a dark purplish red sepals. Tiny dots of bright yellow are at its center. The sky behind is blue and clear.
A wooden table with a number of boardgames elements scattered about. Beautiful fungal art, meeple-ey things and several teacups full of ginger tea.
A Calico Pennant Dragonfly, top-view, perched on the end of a twig. The veining in its wings is clearly detailed, looking like intricate lace, bright yellow at the base of the wings, fading to brown as it goes outward. Its abdomen is black with repeating yellow triangle pointing downwards along its length. Its got large red eyes, that are looking away from the camera.
A King Rail peeks out from behind some vegetation as it steps out into some shallow water. It is very cryptically patterned with its light and dark brown striped pattern, really helping it blend in with its surroundings.
An acrylic portrait of a Northern Pintail duck, from the shoulder up on a blue grey green background. It has a brown head with a black and blue bill. Its breast is white, while its nape and shoulders are black to grey.
A velociraptor with plumage in the colors and pattern of an extant Black-throated Blue Warbler. Its muzzle and face are dark and its body is primarily blue, with a white belly. In between the blue top and white belly are a nice black stripe.
A very little Long-clawed Hermit Crab being held up in my hand. Its coming somewhat far out of its shell, and while its claws are mostly out of focus, you can see the mottling on its body pretty well, a sandy green to aost purplish color.
Golden-back Snipe Fly on the underside of a green leaf.
A large, long-legged mosquito is perched on a bright yellow flower, its long proboscis probing into the plant, looking for nectar. It's got a nice iridescent shine to it, both on its clear wings and its thorax.
A close up shot of some bright green moss, with its golden yellow spore bearing structures sprouting. They have little crowns on them where the spores come out.
A large diagram breaking down my iNaturalist observations for the past year. It indicates that the vast majority of mine have been of bees, butterflies, and flies.
A small red-banded hairstreak butterfly rests on a bright yellow flower, its proboscis drinking up sohandling. It has tiny white and black striped legs and antennae. Its primarily dark grey wings are banded with a large zig-zag of orangish red, as well as some false eye pots on its hindwings.
A very tiny wasp rests on the tip of a bright yellow flower petal. It is black and slender, with long wings and antennae.
Large snowflakes are falling on a stone terrace outside of the Brookside Gardens Visitor Center. There's a large lawn in the background, edged by tall bare trees, save a few green pines.
The head of a Copperhead snake blends in with surrounding leaf litter.
A portrait of a cute little snake, with a dusty, dark grey up top and some light cream underside. It also has a nice little cream ring of color around the base of it's head.
A colored sketch saltmarsh sparrow sits on a vertical disembodied black line.
A black and white sketch of a Black-Throated Sparrow head, it's beak slightly open.
A two-tone grey and maroon portrait sketch of a Fox Sparrow.
A cluster of young and molting Oak Treehoppers hang on the underside of a young oak twig. The youngest are wingless and striped horizontally red white and black, while the melted have their wings and are vertically striped green and red.
Some old Coral fungus. It's got dozens of stalks growing up, each tipped with some hand-like growths. All a sort of off-white beige color.
A small black and white wasp on a white porch railing. The black and white alternate in a zebra-like pattern, and it's legs are a nice amber color. It's antennae also have a bright white band on them.
Bright white, large-petaled flowers with bright yellow centers. A species of Arrowhead (genus Sagittaria, I think) they are growing out of shallow water.
A large Monarch Butterfly caterpillar is sitting on top of a kinda scraggly looking common milkweed leaf.
A bright orange, black, and white moth rests on a cluster of boneset flowers. It is very thin, and at first glance, it looks more like a beetle than a moth!
A pretty low quality phone photo that still clearly shows two flamingos in a shallow pond.
A picture of the board game Hi Ho Cherry-o. The board is out of the box, as are the spinner and some small plastic cherries used to play the game.
A fuzzy white and black bee gathering from a small white and purple flower. The underside of its abdomen is covered in bright yellow pollen.
A very fuzzy bee is eating from a bright yellow flower. It has very long brown antennae.
A tan/brown Ambush Bug is perched under a bright purple Ironweed bloom. It is contentedly consuming a small orange butterfly. A skipper of some kind, maybe Zabulon? They're pretty common in my back yard.
An Eastern Box turtle hiding mostly in its shell. Mostly golden yellow with dark brown or black markings all over.
A small, squat, green bug on a human finger.
A cluster of white Coral-like fungi. Each a little ball with a kind of honeycomb pattern.
A photo of a dark purple to light pink cluster of flowers. They are sprouting from a vine and look like American Groundnut, maybe?