The Dragonflies Love Our Recent Wet Weather
Wings We are well into the summer thunderstorm season right now in central Florida. Most of our waterways, ponds, lakes,...
Blue Dashers Love to Hunt From Any Perch
Grounded Some of the dragonflies that I see, especially those that live right at the water’s edge, rarely go down...
Puddling is Really Good for the Beautiful Butterflies
Attracted Have you ever noticed several butterflies surrounding a muddy puddle or a single butterfly returning over and over to...
A Most Interesting and Unusual Insect is the Water Strider
Water Boatman If you have lived in the eastern or mid western United States and spent very much time outside...
Banana Spiders are Beautiful and Great at Catching Insects
Web World The Cedar Lake Botanical Garden was not only a great place for seeing loads of beautiful flowers, but...
Metallic Green Sweat Bees Really Love Blackjack Flowers
Touch of Metallic Green With the start of summer (which was a while ago in Florida!) come plenty of summer...
Spiny Orb Weavers are Beautiful in Their Webs
Web Sight I realized the other day when I found this beautiful spiny orb weaver (Gasteracantha cancriformis) in my yard,...
Beautiful Chaste Tree Flowers are Very Attractive to Pollinators
Buzzing By The chaste trees (Vitex agnus-castus) at one of our local nurseries are blooming, and that’s always a great...
The Beautiful Queen Butterfly is Deserving of her Majestic Name
The Queen One of the many gorgeous butterflies that were everywhere on my latest hike in Gothe State Forest were...
Pollinators and Beautiful Flowers Just Go Together
Just a Bee On a Flower A little bee flies busily round and round Looking for the perfect flower, filled...
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