It is impossible to go outside and not see something new! Did you know that there are approximately 1,000,000 classified species of insects in the world?  And the beetles make up 250-350,000 of those species. 

I have placed the dragon/damselflies into one gallery, the butterflies/moths into another and all the rest into a gallery of "more insects".  I think only two beetles represented so far.  I come across many wasps, and I find them fascinating and beautiful.  Wasps, bees, and ants are all related and belong to the same order, Hymenoptera.   

A Great Golden Digger Wasp, female, digs her nest in the crack of a sidewalk.  She will lay her eggs inside the nest and then stock it with paralyzed insects. Paralyzed, not dead, so they will be a fresh source of food for the larvae that will hatch from her eggs during the winter.