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| Dramatic Monarch |
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| Monarch on Anise Hyssop, a native herb in the mint family. As the name and taxonomy of the plant would imply, it smells like a cross between Anise and Mint. It is an exceptional pollinator plant |
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| Double Monarchs |
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| Wings out!!! |
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| Drinking from New England Aster |
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| Onto the next flower! |
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| Tons of Monarchs on a Seven-sons Tree |
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| Seven Sons Tree is native to the semi-alpine mountain forests of China, but is an excellent pollinator plant in Illinois, as demonstrated here |
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| My dad and I estimated, like, 30 monarchs on this tree |
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| Wings out! Again! |
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| Corn Earworm Moth |
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| So pretty |
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| Eats a wide variety of crops as caterpillars, but it's a native bug, pretty, a pollinator as an adult, and also migratory! |
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| Proboscis! |
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| Moth butt |
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| Majestic Corn Earworm Moth |
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| The hungry hungry monarch caterpillar |
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| Another (seemingly less hungry hungry) monarch caterpillar |
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| Yet another hungry hungry monarch caterpillar |
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| Black Swallowtail on Anise. What a yummy first two weeks to life! |
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| Summer Azure butterfly |
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| Hawaiian Beet Webworm Moth butt |
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| Soybean Looper Moth face! |
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| Soybean Looper Moth |
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| Soybean Looper Moth eyes |
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| Soybean looper moth back |
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| Pearl Crescent on the side of the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum |
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| Soybean Looper Moth on a daffodil or something |
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| Wing detail |
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| From the side |
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| Cool stamen thingy |
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| The same Soybean Looper Moth, three hours later |
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| Monarch! |
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| Beautiful |
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| Yeah, that Joe-pye Weed ain't flowering anymore |
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| Bye-bye. Sorry your dining experience was disappointingly inedible |
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