Grasshopper shell

Vicki found this on the underside of an eggplant leaf. The hopper has molted and hopped along. We hope. 

Cicadoidea about ready to pop.

Moved the bird bath and found a bunch of sow bugs (pill bugs) and this big guy underneath

. Can't remember seeing one at this stage before. 

Black swallowtail butterfly caterpillar

Papilio polyxenes

This is one of three on one of our bronze fennel plants.

New knowledge to me: bronze fennel smells like anise/licorice to me. Faint unless you're really close, but pleasant. 

Harlequin bug nymph

Murgantia histrionica. Immature stage of a pretty but harmful stink bug. They feed on crucifers, including weeds in the mustard family, but if food gets scarce they go after garden plants.