Odd bug, flies, four legs?

This bug looked like a mercedes emblem or peace sign, in a way, at first. Seems only to have four legs. Disguised as tree parts, but flies. Anyone know what it is? Holly saw it first. It was at our house in Albuquerque.

Vine Identification, please

The vine can be freestanding or it can twine. The flowers are pinky purple. (Ignore ducks and morning glories in the background.) Please identify:

World War II insignia

These were in a little box marked "Probably Kirby's," in handwriting I don't recognize. It was passed on by one of my aunts.

I only recognize tech corporal and the sergeant's stripes. Can anyone name the others? I'm not positive they're all my dad's, but I know he worked with trucks and jeeps, and was a sergeant when he left the service.



Thanks for any help!

Mushroom ID, please

This was in Albuquerque. I showed this to Holly, who is staying near Montreal (Saint Lazare, Quebec) and she said there was one like it last week in their back yard. "It's hollow," she said. "Break it open."

Sure enough, the stem is like the lightest closed-cell foam, and it's hollow. The images below are in the order of
Probably opened yesterday; shrunk back down; Current; Still hasn't sprung up from the ground:

Flower ID, please

Can anyone identify this? It's in South Carolina, at Katherine's house. :-)

Ivy species, or common name?

Years later, on facebook, it was identified as cape ivy, which grows wild in California. Natalie Chalmers was the one who figured it out!

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Can anyone identify this ivy? Since I was a teenager, I've looked for more of the same ivy, to find out what it's name is, but I've never seen any. I never pass an ivy stand in a store without scanning for this ivy. None. I'm hoping someone here can identify it. Each time I visited my older female relatives in the 60's or 70's, they would tell me "Look, here's your ivy." So all those years it was "my ivy," and my memories had all to do with my mother and grandmother.