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| Common Checkered-Skipper, a new species for y family and I!!! |
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| So beautiful! |
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| In the top photo, this skipper looks really cute. In this one, the angle is slightly different and it looks really pissed. |
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| Those are quite the head ridges and antennae |
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| Cuuuute |
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| Wheeee!!!!! |
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| SO MANY MONARCHS!!! |
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| The flowers the monarchs are on, called Devil's Bite, is Near Threatened and apparently very tasty for monarchs. |
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| Away I go!!! Super Nectar Monarch Zoomie!!! |
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| Orange butterfly on a purple flower! I always though of monarchs as orange, black, and white but they're beige on their lower hindwing |
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| So great!!! |
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| A monarch on some Wild Bergamot on the other side of Mount Bridgeport (the larger Palmisano Park hill) as the Devil's Bite monarchs. |
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| American Bumble Bee!!! |
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| American Bumble Bees are known for being threatened, but they are also all but gone from northern Illinois. So not only did we see a rare, declining species, but one where it's even rarer than usual!!! |
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| Cutie |
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| So amazing!!! |
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| Common Eastern Bumble Bee |
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| Cute lil' bumbler |
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| Sluurrrrrrrppppin' nectar |
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| Bzzzzzzz |
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| Ligated Furrow Bees |
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| Ligated Furrow Bee and other insects |
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| Gnat in flight |
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| Bugs flying above a Hump-backed Beewolf |
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| European Woolcarder Bee |
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| When my family and I first saw this bee, we didn't know what it was called. We thought it was a bee fly at first, but its actually a bee. So we called it a Bee fly bee |
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| The flower it is on is sometimes called False Dragon-tongue, and you can see the "dragon tongue" here |
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| Common Eastern Bumble Bee |
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| Chickweed Geometer moth |
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| Lucerne Moth |
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| Common Eastern Bumbler |
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| Orange Sulfur |
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| Eastern Tailed Blue |
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