Hi Meg!
The wing shape on the insect looks familiar. There was a deceased bug on our garage floor the other day with a dragon-fly body and jet-black wings shaped just like that and about that size.
It was a pretty little thing, and I have no idea how it got killed, but I would love to have seen it flying.
The insect fauna here are so much different than they are in California. Things I’ve never seen before include tiny black flies that look exactly like miniature house flies, odd-colored lady bird beetles, beetles that smell like apples (because their larva eat apples), millipedes that invade the house, medium- and very-large-sized, black ants (1/4 - 1/2” long), and of course, the black dragon fly.
The arachnids are about the same, daddy-long-legs spiders abound, and I evict little brown spiders every week or so. Getting the tiny baby ones outside without damaging them has gotten easier now that I have plenty of experience putting them outside. I don’t kill them because I like spiders and their place in God’s plan.
I’ve never seen a tarantula here, :( but you can’t win them all.
Those are Bee Eater birds..African..
I have seen a beautiful red dragonfly here once..
I have seen a tarantula in my garage..almost stepped on one one night when opening the kitchen door for the kitties to play in the garage..Kitty went into stalk mode instead of going out..I looked down and closed the door VERY quickly! They travel during mating season and are just looking for a mate in all the wrong places..LOL