vanremsen's Favorites

Update:
I found several of these at Cedar Bog again this year. The last one might be Hexatoma brevicornis, so if you have expertise, please D.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/172420801
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/172420799
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/172420798
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/175243975

Note: I have photographed this Hexatomini at Cedar Bog in Champaign County, Ohio for at least 17 years. Always in the same area.
I've added two other observations; one from back in 2004.
Links to those observations:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/88273567
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/84762884
Here's an observation this year (2022) with better pics of wing venation. Same location.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/124010854

I found this site in 2020 but with this year's drought, there is a lot more exposed lakeshore and the plant (S! in MO) occurs in the millions of flowering and fruiting culms- only extant site in MO. It is the only sedge in MO that has white margins on the scales. Thus, the old name- Cyperus albomarginatus is more descriptive

The ID here is based on the AI suggestion an that I could find a a couple similar individuals in BugGuide of this species, but not of any other. This does not preclude it from being from another genus, though.