More July plant eaters - and predators

This gem of a true bug (Trigonotylus uhleri) from the family Miridae or aptly named Plant Bugs is a common denizen of the salt marsh. It apparently really likes the saltmarsh cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora) sucking out the juice with the stylet like mouth. The young look like miniature adults with reduced wings.The striped coloration resembles some of the planthoppers, distant cousins of these plant bugs.

Yet to be identified beetles were happily munching on the salt marsh threesquare (Schoenoplectus robustus) leaves. Interestingly, there were two color forms, one with mostly brown elytra (wing cover) color, and another with almost black, with some intermediate forms present as well, perhaps sexual dimorphism or even two different species?

 This beauty is only visiting the salt marsh from nearby freshwater ponds. A slender and fragile dragonfly relative, the Bluet damselflies (genus Enallagma) are also predators. This particular individual seemed to hover around salt marsh hay grass and pick out tiny bugs possibly planthoppers (?). The immature Bluets, called naiads, live in ponds and feed on small water creatures.