6.3.26 Emiquon National Wildlife Refuge, Fulton County, IL bugs

 


Great Spangled Fritillary

Wings out!

Detail of wing tips

Two clovers

Eyes

Fritillary on a flower and an fritillary going nyoooooom

Fritilarry and a Furrow Bee

Great Spangled Fritillary and Brown-belted Bumble Bee sidekick

Two Brown-belted Bumble Bees and a Fritillary

Photobombing bumble bee

Two bumble bees on the same flower and a fritillary above

Brown-belted Bumble Bee close-up

Monarch

Yay!

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail flying and a Black-and-gold Bumble Bee

Black-and-gold Bumble Bee flying and a Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail and bumble bees among the thistle

Tiger Swallowtail

Swallowtail in the strange world of thistles

Silver-spotted Skipper

Fragile Forktail

nyooooooom

Orange Bluet, a new species for me!

Unidentified clubtail dragonfly

Margined Leatherwing Beetle, another new species for me!

An unidentified ant (upper left), Cherry Acrobat Ants tending to an unidentified Treehopper (lower right)

Hackberry Emperor

Bluegrass Webworm Moth


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