This photo shoot was a lot of fun! Northern flickers are always so shy...but not today! There were four or five different flickers in the bushes, trees, etc.
A mass of white cottony material on the underside of Rubus pensilvanicus (Pennsylvania blackberry). Hidden under the cottony material were the psyllids. The psyllids are good hoppers.
Very large, very yellow girl.
With what I think is a parasitic wasp observed separately: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/243438213
with Neodexiopsis fly observed separately https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/243197276
Pachypsylla celtisdisasterisca
on Bur Oak
Plant: Goldenrod (Solidago)
Drying mushrooms for winter.