SRX09586DxO Newly Emerged Large Milkweed Bug |
P9180080DxO Newly emerged Milkweed Bug |
Three Milkweed Bug Instars |
Paper Wasp Nest |
DEFINITELY not monarchs! |
NOT Monarch caterpillars! |
Monarch Butterfly on Swamp Milkweed |
P8020072DxO Welcome Bumblebee |
SRX09030DxO Black Swallowtail |
P7120029DxO Honey Bee at Work |
P7120030DxO At Work |
:: Late Day Great Spangled Fritillary Butterflies ::
|
Great Spangled Fritillary |
Carpenter Bee on Bok Choy Blossoms |
DSC07978DxO Eastern Fence Lizard |
P3230045DxO Injured Snake |
Leptoglossus - Leaf-footed Bug |
P9250027 bok choy destroyer |
P9150040DxO Really difficult light |
P9150030DxO Spotted Orb Weaver |
P9150035DxO Spotted Orb Weaver |
P9100027DxO spotted orb weaver? |
P9020230DxO Early Instar Milkweed Bug Nymph |
Funnel Spider Funnel |
Monarch with a Mission |
Crossing from last year's wood... |
Ouch - Ouch |
Heading for a Friendlier Shrub? |
P8200027DxO Monarch Caterpillers and Frass |
P8200019DxO Milkweed Bug Nymphs |
P8200016DxO Eating-What Else? |
P8190161DxO "Flagging" Bite Close Up |
Another "flagged" leaf |
About Caterpillar Flagging |
P8170078DxO Instar Five? |
P8170076DxO Early Morning Monarch Caterpillars |
P8150050DxO On Asclepias Tuberosa |
P8150043DxO Monarch Finishing Leaf |
P8150042DxO Internal Flash |
P8150041DxO Monarch at Work |
P8140012DxO Monarch Caterpillars |
P8140029DxO Munch Munch |
P8140028DxO |
Eastern Bumblebee |
P8130020DxO Survived! |
Finally, a monarch caterpillar |
Monarch Caterpillar and Slug(?) |
P8020073DxO Polistes exclamans |
P8020044DxO Polistes metricus |
American Lady |
P7200112DxO I'm a Voyeur |
P7200086DxO Making babies |
Honeybee on Milkweed |
SRX07150DxO Great Spangled Fritillary |
SRX07144DxO Gr Sp Frt 3.jpg |
SRX07091 great spangled fritillary |
Moth on Sidelight |
Early Monarch |
honey bee or digger bee? |
paper wasp |
Chaos |
SRX04559D Katydid |
_9120031D Cooperation |
_9090302D giant deer fly underside.jpg |
_9090306D better top deer fly.jpg |
Frustrated Caterpillar |
P8040032D Tiny copper fly |
P7030010 Leaf footed bug nymph |
acanthocephala terminalis leaf footed bug |
Rescued |
It's a "Junk Bug"! |
Orb Weaver |
SRX02798D American Painted Lady |
SRX02806D light is everything.jpg |
P6150076D Jazzy Spider |
P6150060D like a bullfrog |
P6150085D bullfrog from rear |
P1000149 Smelly Surprise |
_5240012D Jumping Spider |
Earwig |
Not My Imagination! |
PA260104D Honey Bee |
PA260105DD Honey Bee |
PA250099D Through Sliding Door |
P9220246D Paper Wasp on Goldenrod |
P9130060 Persistent Spider |
_9030221D Late Afternoon Buckeye |
Trapped eastern fence lizard |
_8310011D Tussock Moth Caterpillar |
_8310188D Threesome |
_8300125D No hummers today |
_8290156D Katydid on Sedum |
Robber Fly |
Robber Flies Have Big Eyes |
Zebra Catepillar? |
Gold Banded Skipper |
Twig Caterpillar |
_8220009D potter wasp |
watching me |
Scared the ---- out of me! |
caterpillar outside |
_8190190D flying hoverfly |
Ocyptamus hoverfly on basil |
_8180047D dark blue dragonfly |
_8180035D dragonfly |
_8170135DxO fiery skipper |
PZ100170DxO Black Swallowtail |
PZ100170DxO Black Swallowtail - Finally! |
SRX00108DxO NOT a Painted Lady! |
_8040078DxO Katydid Nymph |
_8040065DxO Katydid Nymph Retreating |
_7300037DxO Clearwing Hummingbird Moth |
_7300050DxO Hard to Capture! |
_7281833DxO Hummingbird Clearwing Moth |
_7281834DxO Hummingbird Moth |
_7281526DxO Skipper |
IMG_6701 Personality |
DSCF5039 Dryocampa rubicunda |
SRX00003 Red Milkweed Beetle |
SRX09989DxO Milkweed Bug |
SRX09977DxO Bee Fly |
Lasioglossum - 5mm! |
SRX09977DxO Bee Fly |
Lassioglossum - Sweat Fly |
PZ280039DxO Whitetail Skimmer |
_6280057DxO Bee Fly Family Bombyliidae |
_6280051DxO Bee Fly |
_6240190DxO Ebony Jewelwing |
_6210010DxO Treasure Trove |
_6060029DxO Really tiny bee |
_6060019DxO I didn't know... |
_6050011DxO What's the paper wasp doing? |
_6050013DxO Collecting Wood Fiber |
R.I.P. Yellow Jacket |
P9160026 Meal Moth - Pyralis Farinalis |
P8240056 Praying Mantis |
SRX08124 Google Lens says Robber Fly |
SRX08026 Painted Lady |
SRX08036 Painted Lady |
P7280037_DxO Eastern Bumblebee |
PZ150003 Praying Mantis on Geranium |
PZ110053_DxO Beautiful to Watch |
PZ110063_DxO Milkweed is so fascinating to watch |
PZ050005_DxO Katydids Love Geraniums |
PZ050068 I think it's a katydid nymph... |
Oecanthus |
Welcome Assassin Bug Nymph |
Red Admiral |
IMG_5584 A tripod would have helped! |
IMG_5584_nymph_profile_left.jpg |
DSC06440 |
DSC06434 |
PA020007 Pole Dancer |
DSC05711 paper wasp feeding on sedum |
P9260003 hapithus agitator male - "Restless Bush Cricket" |
Arrowhead Spider - Verrucosa arenata |
P1160988 Respectable for a semi-wide-angle lens! |
P9110007 have no idea which caterpillar |
DSC05012 Ominous Horse Fly |
DSC04924 Adult katydid |
P9010049 Ocyptamus fuscipennis, a Syrphiid fly nectaring, |
P9010052 Ocyptamus fuscipennis, a Syrphiid fly nectaring |
DSC04636 "maple spanworm" |
P8300030 Cool looking tussock moth caterpillar |
I love the people at bugguide.net |
DSC04525 it's an eastern comma |
DSC04395 Relaxed |
DSC04397 A better look |
P1160924 What's the blob? |
DSC04349 Definitely not a beetle! |
DSC04350 Good grief! |
P1160927 From inside the house |
P8210112 Gobsmacked! |
DSC04092 Wanda's Wet |
DSC04119 Wanda's still here.... |
P8180068 "Wally" may be "Wanda" |
P8180067_never_noticed_these_before.jpg |
DSC04055 black swallowtail butterfly |
DSC04081_common_buckeye.jpg |
DSC04082 Common Buckeye Butterfly |
P8170058 Find the other three eyes! |
P8170060 Praying Mantis Exoskeleton |
P8170063 Here's lookin' at ya! |
P8170054 Upside Down |
PZ160167 Where's Waldo? |
PZ160165 Here I am! |
PZ150119 On my morning photo op hunt... |
PZ150127 Praying Mantis on Zinnia Plant |
PZ140115 Another bush cricket |
PZ14010 Not bad for ISO 3200 |
Just discovered this mud dauber or organ pipe wasp nest this morning |
DSC03759 It has grown quickly |
The following morning |
Mud Dauber Wasp |
Mud dauber with orange legs |
Wolf Spider ... |
PZ090102 Red-Headed Bush Cricket |
In a precarious spot! |
Araneus diadematus |
PZ070080 swallowtail on volunteer buddleia |
PZ070075 skipper on buddleia |
PZ070072 on prop |
PZ070070 honey bee on chives.jpg |
DSC03691 fallen.jpg |
DSC03682 funnel spider |
DSC03679 sleeping bee.jpg |
PZ050007 Zelus |
P7170046 Argiope aurantia or trifasciata |
P7120104 Good light is such a gift! |
Moribund |
P712006 Good Morning! |
PZ100051 Paper Wasp Tending Nest |
PZ090009 Great Golden Digger Wasp |
PZ090008 Great Golden Digger Wasp on Oregano |
PZ090004 Great Golden Digger Wasp |
DSC03075 Checking me out |
PZ080032_DxO_Tiny_Nymph.jpg |
P7030022 New little katydid nymph |
P7030017 Still Lurking |
P7020007 One Tough Wasp! |
:: Wasp Mating ::
|
IMG_5336 See the kitty face? |
P6290046 Tiny fighter |
P6290043 They're so anthropomoprhic! |
P6290020 Evidence that demands no verdict |
P6290018 Hiding amongst the cinnamon basil leaves |
P6280014 A break between captures |
P6280004 Happy to see this mantis |
DSC02892 young mantis |
DSC02886 hiding |
DSC02886 Tiny crop from original image |
DSC02903 feeding bee.jpg |
P6270221 I thought it was a fly or flying ant |
DSCF9066 The real culprit |
IMG_5276 possibly pieris rapae butterfly? |
P6250187 What is this paper wasp carrying? |
P6250186 Is that caterpillar poo this paper wasp is holding? |
DSC02731 For Comparison's Sake |
PZ230086 Change of Venue |
PZ220077 biggest.jpg |
PZ220074 leaf hopper |
PZ220066 2 caterpillasrs |
PZ210062 Incandescent |
PZ200027 Tough Little Nymph |
SIL80088_Tiny fuzzy white crawler |
PZ180014 Slightly older katydid nymph |
PZ180012 older katydid nymph with internal flash |
P6150110 New Katydid Nymph |
P6150104 Scarab beetle, exomala orientalis, on lemon balm |
IMG_5229_Two! |
P6090063 Prancing away from me |
P6060022 Strange Body Position |
P6060017 "Tripod" |
Sometimes a phone is the answer to shooting a tiny object |
P6030040 katydid nymph lost flower home! |
P6030047 backlit |
P6020041_ Katydid nymphs hang around |
P6020043 After it left the inside of the blossom to get away from me |
PZ110048 Climbing down bracket... |
PZ270047 Victim |
DSC00389 painted lady chrysalis.jpg |
PZ140191 Gulf Fritillary Butterfly - Female |
PZ140143 Not a Yellow Jacket! |
PZ140124 Couldn't have posed much better! |
PZ140114 angled closeup.jpg |
PZ140064 Isn't this paper wasp handsome? |
IMG_4594 Agraulis vanillae gulf fritillary |
PZ230122 On my sliding door this morning |
PZ180082 Crab spider finally caught something! |
PZ170030 Leatherwings |
P9160088 Overwhelmed? |
PZ120044 At first I thought I saw a bunch of aphids |
PZ120062 From a distance I thought I saw an attack of aphids... |
P9100212 What a huge difference in sizes |
IMG_4294 paper wasp |
IMG_4277 Horace's Duskwing Butterfly |
IMG_4254 Katydids have long antennae |
SIL60169 MAY be an Eastern Bumblebee |
SIL60173 The turtle head blossoms are very deep! |
Strange Behavior from Wasp |
SIL30121 yellow and black striped caterpillar? |
PZ220142 fallen begonia blossom and cricket |
PZ220148 bush cricket in begonia blossom |
SIL10106 When I lifted the blinds.... |
SIL10108 Hummm...not sure I want to open the mailbox! |
SIL10113 I "encouraged" the spider to move from the mailbox opener |
SIL10116 Spiders really are pretty! |
PZ190006 The noise started this morning... |
P8180010 Painted Lady - Still Around |
P1130941 The blurred antennae were moving very rapidly |
P1130935 Is this red-headed bush cricket eating plant matter or another cricket? |
_MG_9082 Red Headed Bush Cricket - Phyllopalpus pulchellus |
P8080151 Black Swallowtail Tiptoeing on Buddleia |
P8080159 Plastic Surgery on Tail |
P8080114 I think it's a fiery skipper |
P8080104 Fiery Skipper? |
P8080094 Fiery Skipper? |
P8080090 Fiery Skipper? |
P1150255 Rough day, huh? |
PZ020058 Mud Dauber Wasp on Oregano |
PZ020046 Twofer - Bee and Skipper |
PZ020033 Skippers are Very Prolific This Year... |
PZ010027 Black Swallowtail Butterfly |
Not sure which camera/lens combination! Rats! |
P7250028 I think rear end up means angry... |
With Milkweed Aphid |
P7230103 "I'll take some dental floss with that", said the mantis. |
P7230087 Half Grown Praying Mantis |
Skipper |
Plastic Surgery |
Before Photoshop Surgery |
P1150091 assassin bug nymph |
Empty Chrysalis |
IMG_3856 300 closer |
_MG_9070 Placed parsley from container with butterfly on mountain laurel |
P5290078 Drying out in its container before release |
Eastern Black Swallowtail Butterfly About to Emerge |
P5200003 "Oh no... |
P1140800 In one end, out the other |
P1140796 What's that orange thing on my black swallowtail butterfly caterpillar? |
P5180173 I really ticked him off! |
P1140786 Black swallowtail butterfly caterpillar |
P1130670 Tired paper Wasp |
P1110083 Cold Spider |
IMG_1883 I've never seen such a huge bee before |
P1110079 "I'm innocent"! |
P1110072 Package |
SIL40083 A face even an arachnophobe could love |
IMG_1852 Actual size |
SIL30038 one track mind |
Stocking up |
IMG_1771 Moth on window |
IMG_1750 They call milkweed bugs "gregarious" |
These are the radish leaf destroying monsters... |
4 christine.jpg |
IMG_1706 Soldier Beetles ALMOST Mating |
IMG_1590 Orange tips on antennae indicate a POSSIBLE Northern Crescent |
IMG_1601 Possible Northern Crescent Butterfly - Christine? |
IMG_1634 Common Buckeye Butterfly - junonia coenia |
Milkweed Bugs in Various Stages |
P8210052 I thought it was a nymph |
20160821_110958 skipper on yellow flower |
20160817_110117 bee on thistle |
20160817_105723 Busy Thistle Visitors |
IMG_1278 Soldier Beetle Checking out Obedient Plant Blossom |
P1100377 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, Dark form female papilio glaucus and skipper |
P1100345 Black Swallowtail |
P1100391 Black Swallowtail - Female Dark Papilio Glaucus |
P1100380 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail |
P1100383 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail |
IMG_1101 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail on Buddleia |
IMG_1111 Two different hatchings of Milkweed Bug nymphs |
IMG_1118 Thread Waisted Wasps Performing Double Duty |
Painted Lady Butterfly on Oregano |
IMG_1071 Adventurous paper wasp on orchid leaf |
IMG_1084 Skipper on Cleome Leaf |
IMG_1082 Skipper, A Closer View |
P8040005 Milkweed Bug Nymphs |
P8030194 First Swallowtail on Obedient Plant |
IMG_1046 Eyes on the Prize |
IMG_0967 Great Spangled Fritillary Butterfly |
IMG_0961 Happy Bee on Obedient Plant |
P7310108 Milkweed/Oleander Aphids |
IMG_0912 NOT EGGS...but MITES! |
IMG_0919 Its a girl! |
Disoriented Bee |
IMG_0845 Scolia Bicinta Wasp on Oregano Blossoms |
IMG_0834 Acrobatic Milkweed Bugs |
IMG_0789 Mating Pairs of Milkweed Bugs |
IMG_0794 Milkweed Bugs Mating |
Milkweed Bugs are Back! |
IMG_0560 Serendipity |
SIL90080 Lightning Bug |
IMG_0393 Grooming Itself |
Eastern Tent Caterpillar |
IMG_9076 Eyes on the Prize |
IMG_9077 Bingo |
IMG_8990 Marauder on the Sedum |
IMG_8999 "May I please have some privacy?" |
IMG_8954 wasp on garlic chive |
IMG_8965 New colorful one |
katydid in mandevilla |
Katydid on mandevilla flower |
IMG_8894 Common Buckeye |
Thanks for the ID, Sam! |
Luna Moth |
P1050622 Suspect Bob B. is correct - it's a Mydas Fly |
Rostrom - Assassin Bug's Stinger |
P1050551 Assassin Bug Nymph's Still Here! |
IMG_8697 Great Spangled Fritillary on Sunflower |
P1050489 What's that? |
Incredible Assassin Bug |
P1050517 Rear View |
P1050439 Scarab Beetle |
P1050419 Skipper in Wave Petunia |
IMG_8680 Paper Wasp on the Prowl |
_1120788 Believe it's a Great Spangled Fritillary... |
P1050277 Not seeds |
P1050228 Only four legs?.... |
P1050211 Bejeweled Spider |
IMG_8600 Paper Wasp Drinking |
_MG_8235 Stink Bug on My Window |
P4030034 Bee on Pieris |
P1010897 Spotted cucumber beetle? |
_1010674 Parasitized Tobacco Hornworm on Eggplant |
DSCF8935 Awesome Arthropod |
_MG_8043 Ah what a lovely fragrance |
P8170163 E "ET, phone home!" |
_MG_0644 Intimidating, huh? Red-headed Bush Cricket |
SIL30003 discarded cicada exoskeleton |
_MG_7997 Coated with Pollen |
_MG_7887 Funnel Spider |
_MG_9201 Wheel Bug |
P9176781 Grasshopper Flash EPL1 |
_9170007 E PL5 with FL600R flash |
Up to No Good on My Eggplant |
_MG_8892 Mind if I butt in? |
P1110195 Katydid up close and personal |
_MG_8641 Bingo - Nailed it! |
DSCF8858 Pugnacious Jumping Spider |
_MG_7627 Cicada Exoskeleton |
_MG_7630 Cicada Exoskeleton |
P1110174 Katydid |
_MG_8440 Mud Dauber Wasp |
_7050069 Cicada - They're Here! |
Bye Bye Hummingbird Feeder |
DSCF8771 Paper Wasp on Chrysanthemum |
20120921_091643 Orb Weaver Macro |
20120912_080724 Brown Marmorated Stink Bug |
_MG_0826 They appeared over night |
_MG_0733 Painted Lady Checking Me Out |
_MG_0750 Upside Down Painted Lady |
_MG_0741 Painted Lady Head On |
_MG_0738 Painted Lady Profile |
_MG_0729 Painted Lady |
_MG_0725 Proboscis |
_MG_0722 Checking Me Out |
DSCF8692 Katydid in Jumping Mode |
DSCF8673 Destructive Duo |
_MG_0473 Cloudless Sulfphur Butterfly |
_MG_0480 Cloudless Sulphur Butterfly |
_MG_0434 Swallowtail |
_MG_0440 Swallowtail on zinnia |
_MG_2671 Hornet Nest |
DSCF7976 Wheel Bug - Arilus Cristatus |
DSCF7960 Uh Oh |
DSCF7964 Bye Bye Harvestman |
_MG_6574 Spider |
_MG_6460 New Butterfly |
_MG_2427 Assassin Bug Nymph |
_MG_2438 Late Summer Romance |
_MG_2383 Wasp Waist |
_MG_6051 Big Eye Bee |
_MG_2337 Grasshopper on Pachysandra |
_MG_2326 Wet Sleepy Bee |
_MG_5878 Wasp on garlic chive blossoms |
_MG_4511 Eureka |
_MG_5843 Butterfly on Zinnia |
_MG_5358 Grasshopper |
DSCF7788 Dolomedes tenebrosus - a "fishing spider" |
P6214137 Same spider, different camera - Dolomedes tenebrosus |
_MG_5252 Mud Dauber Wasp |
PB151536 They just don't give up! Milkweed Bugs |
_MG_3424 Milkweed Bug Nymphs on Fallen Leaf |
P9101018 Wiggling |
Last Meal |
P9090998 Tobacco Hornworm Business End |
Tobacco* Hornworm on Tomato Leaf |
Tobacco Hornworm Eating Last Vestige of Eggplant Plant |
P1090035 Milkweed Bugs on Asclepias Seed Pod |
P8160460 A face only a mother could love |
P8080311 Raynox DCR 250 on Olympus PEN E-PL1 |
P8080333 Soldier Beetle or Leatherwing |
_MG_1068 Caterpillar Dropping - Greatly Magnified! |
_MG_2898 Skipper Drinking |
_MG_2890 Wasp |
_MG_2859 Black Swallowtail |
_MG_2856 Yellow Swallowtail.jpg |
P1000544 With Raynox DCR 250 super macro lens |
Bee on Asclepias |
DSC00012 Waterlogged Bee |
_MG_2733 painted Lady Butterfly on Garlic Chive |
_MG_2732 Painted Lady Ready for Takeoff |
_MG_2727 Translucent Painted Lady |
P1080797 Katydid Nymph |
DSCF7129 Plant Murder Incorporated |
P1080674 Katydid Nymph |
DSCF7063 Millipede |
DSCF7023 It's Morphed 100 percent crop - Leaf Footed Bug |
DSCF6988 Leaf Footed Bug |
_MG_1771 Leaf Footed Bugs |
P1080506 Leaf Footed Bug |
P1080503 Like Beautiful Pearls |
P1080496 Katydid Nymph |
_MG_1024 Bee on Asclepias |
_MG_1747 Horsefly |
DSCF6889 Horsefly |
:: My Chinese Praying Mantis Egg Case Adventure ::
|
DSCF6519 Bee or Fly? |