mantis with corn pollen
glad bee
(i think it actually is a bald faced hornet and, thus, not about to make me any honey)
bumble' in 'suckle
railing mantis (but nobody listening)
some of the search results suggested that mantid species native to the midatlantic area are being displaced by invasive mantid species from, or named after, other places (carolina, european and chinese are listed, together with praying mantis, on the regional insect listing i consulted . . . although another source stated that the european mantis is the one called the praying mantis), which are larger, more voracious, willing to work for lower pay, loud, aggressive, insular, probably infected with ebola and tuberculosis, likely infiltrators and sleeper agents of the islamic state of iraq and the levant and al qaeda, don't speak the language, sometimes don't tip generously, and enjoy strange-smelling food at odd hours: there goes the neighborhood. i understand they also are interested in our native female praying mantises.
i think both of these are the praying variety. but really only know enough, dear reader, to doubt the identification: i'm just a little bit better informed on the question than, say, your average government agency chief is with respect to his or her domain. to me, both seem to be a little small for this late in the season.
p.s. - that previously unidentified enormous moth turned out to be an imperial moth.
p.p.s. - i have been a sporadic user and frequent proponent of whatsthatbug.com since i first fortuitously found it while playing the domain name game* not too long after its 1998 founding. the tentative identifications in this post are principally from insectidentification.org, as you can probably gather from the links.
* - the domain name game was to -- before using a search engine -- simply type www.[phrase].com in the hopes that a pithy intuitive articulation might get you to the resource that you're after. i think you can still play, but am skeptical of the odds on a result of such enduring value as whatsthatbug.