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| Black Swallowtail |
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| So beautiful. Hanging out on the same flower as a Common Eastern Bumble Bee |
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| Pearl Crescent. Notice the antennae peeking out from the flower below? |
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| Pearls Crescent being buzzed by a Calligrapher fly. The insect below the flower is a Goldenrod Soldier Beetle |
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| Yellow-shouldered Drone fly being buzzed by a Calligrapher. Note that all six of the larger drone fly's legs are up in the air in surprise. |
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| Fun lil- Bug |
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| Butt patterns |
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| Lovin' that Black-eyed Susan or Tall Coreopsis or Prairie Rosinweed or any other of the bazillion lookalikes |
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| Silver-spotted Skipper. This photo is focused on a very small beetle next to the moth-like butterfly |
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| Look at that big probiscis |
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| Slurrrrrrrp |
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| Large milkweed Bug caring for its young |
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| That's a lot of toxic lil' jelly beans to look after |
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| Mating Large Milkweed Bugs |
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| Blue-winged Wasp |
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| Monarchs on some very big Joe-pye Weed flowers |
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| Banded Tussock Moth caterpillar |
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| Yellow-shouldered Drone Fly stuck in an orb web. The web was spiderless, so I helped the little nugget out. After some gromming on my finger, it flew off. |
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| View of the wildflower pit I took these photos in |
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| Some tiny round beetles having the pollen-y time of their life |
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| Weird tiny bug next to an Eastern Carpenter Bee |
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| European Harvestman. Not a spider, but a fellow arachnid. While spiders have their thorax (fused limb-bearing segments) firmly fused to their head and their abdomen free to rotate separately, the harvestman body is a single, fused tic-tac of a torso. |
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| Ants tending to some sugary-pooped bugs |
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| Landscape |
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