Some insect photos

Because I can. I decided to take the afternoon and start identifying stuff. I'm taking photos of some things, partly for my records, partly as a help to identify. I'll be adding to this post as I go.

#1: I THINK this is some kind of a fly, I feel like the clubbed antenna should be a giveaway to me, but I don't have a good fly reference and I don't know the flies well:

#2: some kind of buprestid (wood boring) beetle (or at least, I'm pretty sure it is). These things are super abundant in the samples. I don't have to get things to species, getting them to family is good enough, and these things aren't specifically the pollinators I'm looking for ("These are not the pollinators you are looking for. Move along now"?) so it's a bonus to be able to identify them.

#3 A wasp, no real idea on the family. This is the lowest magnification I can get with the dissecting scope I have so I can only photograph parts of things.

4. Finally one I am pretty sure about: a halictid bee, one of the so-called "little green bees" that are mostly in genus Agapostemon. It's kind of unfortunate that this one met its end all curled up, but then again I can't get all of it in the photo, so it doesn't matter TOO much.

The abdomen is in the left of the photo, the head (whitish eye) and antenna toward the right.

5. I'm FAIRLY certain this is a pleasing fungus beetle (one of my favorite common names for an organism - there are actually many species of these, this looks closest to what is called a lizard beetle)

It was too big for one photo so I took the head and abdomen separately.