8.7.26 Palmisano Park, Chicago, IL

 


Grapevine Beetle

Wheeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!

So cool!

Widow Skimmer

Beautiful

Watcha lookin' at?

Staring into the distance

Widow Skimmer & American Trumpet Vine flowers

Blue Dasher

Blue Dash & a Partridge Pea

Band-winged Meadowhawk

Red dragonfly, green leaves, and blue... Bluestem grass

Another Band-winged Meadowhawk

Yet another Band-winged Meadowhawk. Waiting for some little bug to come to the delicious American Trumpet Vine flower so the dragonfly can eat it.

Eastern Forktail

Damselfly on algae

Eastern Amberwing

Mating Green Darners. The female is laying eggs as she mates

Bye-bye

Ant on a suspended American Trumpet Vine Flower. My question is why is there a single thread of spider silk coming from the trumpet vine, and how did the flower get on there? And why is there an ant?

Oak Lace Bugs under a bur oak leaf

All of the leaves with discoloration (i.e. all of them) are covered with lace bugs underneath. In their native range in the americas, this species of lace bug does little damage. In Europe, where humans introduced the lace bugs by accident, they devastate oaks. 

Cool reflection with algae and duckweed

Common Duckweed, a flowering plant that is just a floating leaf

Swamp Rose Mallow




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