9.12.26 Palmisano Park, Chicago, IL

 


American Sand Wasp

I usually see this wasp in dune savannas along the lake, but I guess the soil is sandy enough for them at Palmisano

Monarch

Beautiful

Cabbage White

Black Swallowtail

Black Swallowtails with light shining through the wings

Black Swallowtails and red clover

Black Swallowtail sharing a flower with a Skipper butterfly

Green Darner

Lots of Green Darners (there are tons of 'em in the lower left corner)

Green Darners

American Crows

Majestic

Green Darners

Green Darners and a helicopter

Green Darners

Green Darners and the prairie

Two-striped Grasshopper

This one has some extremely red hind tibias

Blue-winged Wasp

Blue-winged wasps and a Western Honey Bee

Unidentified true bug

Candleflame lichen

Common Eastern Bumble Bee

Common Eastern Bumbler and a Western Honey Bee peeking over the flower

Common Eastern Bumbler

A Margined Calligrapher fly, a native fly, pollinating a Lady's Thumb flower, an invasive plant

Black-shouldered Drone Fly

Red-legged Grasshopper

Spotted Orbweaver, with a web covered with Non-biting Midges (Chironomidae)




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