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A honey bee flies by on its way from one set of chaste tree flowers to another.

29 May

Beautiful Chaste Tree Flowers are Very Attractive to Pollinators

Posted by whatnext10 Arthropods, Bees & Wasps, Butterflies, Photography, Plants and Flowers

Buzzing By The chaste trees (Vitex agnus-castus) at one of our local nurseries are blooming, and that’s always a great...

A tufted titmouse sits on a branch almost invisible to the world due to the surrounding vegetation.

28 May

Wild Birds Love to Hide in All the Greenery

Posted by whatnext10 Birds, Photography

Window into His World Wildlife photography, and especially bird photography can be difficult at the best of times, but during...

Brown and white limpkins are very interesting birds.

27 May

Limpkins are Extremely Interesting and Unique Birds

Posted by whatnext10 Birds, Photography, Travels

Limpkin One of our most interesting wading birds in Florida is the limpkin (Aramus guarauna). Even though they kind of...

A Carolina wren sings loudly and clearly so that he can be heard throughout the woods.

26 May

Carolina Wrens Love Singing in the Woods

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A Song in the Woods Almost any time that I go outdoors there are birds singing somewhere on my property...

A beautifully orange queen butterfly hangs from a blackjack flower as it feeds.

25 May

The Beautiful Queen Butterfly is Deserving of her Majestic Name

Posted by whatnext10 Arthropods, Butterflies, Insects, Photography

The Queen One of the many gorgeous butterflies that were everywhere on my latest hike in Gothe State Forest were...

A little ligated furrow bee alights on a dense-spike blackroot flower.

23 May

Pollinators and Beautiful Flowers Just Go Together

Posted by whatnext10 Arthropods, Bees & Wasps, Insects, Photography, Plants and Flowers, Poetry

Just a Bee On a Flower A little bee flies busily round and round Looking for the perfect flower, filled...

A little pearl crescent butterfly stops to have lunch on an orange milkwort flower.

22 May

Milkwort is a Beautiful Flower That’s Great Hungry Butterflies

Posted by whatnext10 Arthropods, Butterflies, Insects, Photography, Plants and Flowers

Crescent on Milkwort Earlier this week when I took a hike in the Gothe State Forest, I found a nice...

A male summer tanager shows off his brilliant red colors and he moves between the trees in a pine forest.

21 May

The Summer Tanager is a Beautiful and Brilliant Summer Bird

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Master Red The highlight of my hike yesterday on a new trail in the Gothe State Forest was seeing a...

A spicebush swallowtail butterfly lands on a stalk of pickerel weed.

20 May

Butterflies Love the Beautiful Flowers of the Pickerel Weed

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Spice on Pickerel Today I went hiking in a part of the Gothe State Forest that as new to me....

A young male blue dasher is starting to change from immature to mature coloration.

19 May

Male Blue Dashers are Very Beautiful When Changing Colors

Posted by whatnext10 Arthropods, Insects, Photography

Young Dasher It’s still pretty early in the warm part of the year and there are a lot of youthful...