I photographed this insect on a red spiderling plant (Boerhavia diffusa) in the morning last summer, in our yard at the Atlantic coast. I failed to measure the insect or make note of what that was underneath the insect (dried part of plant? something the insect was eating? something the insect came out of?), but based on the diminutive size of the plant, I would guess the insect was roughly a half inch long(or less?).