From 6.2.26-6.3.26 my father, sister and I drove from Chicago, IL to Fulton County and Havana, IL and back. This is from Day 2.
See all of this trip posts at the Sand Ridge and Emiquon trip 2026 page.
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| Great Spangled Fritillary |
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| Wings out! |
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| Detail of wing tips |
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| Two clovers |
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| Eyes |
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| Fritillary on a flower and an fritillary going nyoooooom |
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| Fritilarry and a Furrow Bee |
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| Great Spangled Fritillary and Brown-belted Bumble Bee sidekick |
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| Two Brown-belted Bumble Bees and a Fritillary |
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| Photobombing bumble bee |
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| Two bumble bees on the same flower and a fritillary above |
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| Brown-belted Bumble Bee close-up |
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| Monarch |
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| Yay! |
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| Eastern Tiger Swallowtail flying and a Black-and-gold Bumble Bee |
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| Black-and-gold Bumble Bee flying and a Eastern Tiger Swallowtail |
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| Eastern Tiger Swallowtail and bumble bees among the thistle |
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| Tiger Swallowtail |
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| Swallowtail in the strange world of thistles |
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| Silver-spotted Skipper |
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| Fragile Forktail |
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| nyooooooom |
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| Orange Bluet, a new species for me! |
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| Unidentified clubtail dragonfly |
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| Margined Leatherwing Beetle, another new species for me! |
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| An unidentified ant (upper left), Cherry Acrobat Ants tending to an unidentified Treehopper (lower right) |
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| Hackberry Emperor |
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| Bluegrass Webworm Moth |




























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