Link to Love of Bugs photo archives
for Chicago Quarry HawkWatch.
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| Widow Skimmer |
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| Note that it's jerking its head to the side. I have seen these behavior a bit recently, and I do not know why dragonflies do this |
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| Red Milkweed Beetle eating a common milkweed flower bud |
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| On a clump of Ohio Spiderwort flowers |
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| Red milkweed beetles mating |
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| On the growing top of a common milkweed |
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| Eating a common milkweed leaf |
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| Black Saddlebags in flight! |
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| Goldenrod Soldier Beetle eating the pollen of Common St. John's Wort |
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| Nom, nom |
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| Western Honey Bee |
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| bzzzzzzzz |
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| Bumble Bee action! |
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| Asian Lady Beetle |
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| Cool |
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| Black Swallowtail among lots of Ohio Spiderwort |
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| Black-crowned Night Heron waiting for some anglers to give it some fish. Herons figured this stuff out by themselves. Herons are smart |
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| Another Black-crowned Night Heron hunting, not waiting for anglers to give it food. Has an Angler ever angled an Anglerfish in an angling between anglers? I just made up that tongue twister. |
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| Canada Goose Family |
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| Tall Blue Wild Indigo seed pods. This plant is imperiled by the loss of its specific habitat, but Palmisano has the perfect habitat for it! It likes rocky soil, which the park has 'cause it was a quarry. It also requires regular wildfires, which are being mimicked by controlled burns in many Chicago prairie parks |
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| Queen of the Prairie flower |
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| Turtles! |
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| Black Swallowtail stuck in a Prairie Milkweed flower. My mom and I helped it out. Milkweeds have star-shaped flowers with little slots where pollinators naturally put their feet. These slots have sticky globs of pollen that guarantee the pollen is spread form flower to flower. Unfortunately, this butterfly was banged up, weak, and had its legs twisted. Thankfully, we succeeded in letting it go |
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| Flop! |
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| A Western Honey Bee with its legs stuck in the flower. As a non-native pollinator, Western Honey Bees have not adapted to the milkweed's sticky pollen, so they're more likely to get stuck. They are invasive, too, so I didn't give it any help. |
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