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| Dense Blazing Star (purple-flowered spikes), Rattlesnake Master (spiky white balls), and other prairie plants |
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| Maryland Senna |
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| Seed Pods of an unidentified Wild Indigo |
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| Graceful Cattail. Because (sometimes double) mini corndogs shish kebabed on a stick is graceful |
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| ...Whuuuuhhh????? |
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| Prickly Lettuce |
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| Partridge Pea |
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| Butterfly Milkweed |
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| Riverbank Grape. The colors on this plant look like something straight out of a little kid's coloring book, or maybe made of like Tinkertoys or something? Doesn't look real |
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| Prickly Lettuce flowers |
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| Garden Webworm Moths |
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| Fly |
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| Orange Sulfur |
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| The Orange Sulfur is much more yellow than orange, but all of its close relatives are very yellow. The orange comes from slight orange color on top of the wings. You can only see this naturally when it is in flight, as it always rests with its wings vertical |
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| Pale Purple Coneflower (central flower), Sideoats Grama (grass), and Gray-headed Coneflower |
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| Black Diabrotica beetles and a Common Green Bottle Fly on Rattlesnake Master |
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| Partridge Pea taking over a patch of prairie. One of the ecological purpose of fire and bison grazing is to keep plants from running rampant like this. |
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| Ant mound |
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| Shelter of an arthropod, maybe a Skipper caterpillar |
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| Silk structure, maybe of s spider |
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