The Red Spotted Purple is Always a Beautiful Butterfly
Cerulean Glow Tonight’s image is a throw back to this past summer. I actually had forgotten all about this shot...
Beautiful Ammophila pectipennis Wasps Love the Nectar of Fall Wildflowers
Wasp with an Appetite. Until 2023, I had never seen, or at least never noticed these beautiful Ammophila pectipennis wasps....
Bee Flies Spend Lots of Valuable Time Searching for Nectar
Fly, Bee Fly Like most pollinators, bee flies (Poecilanthrax lucifer) are very hard workers and much of their work as...
Bee Flies are Really Great for Gardens
Hang Out We have several types of bee flies here in Florida and many of them don’t have common names....
Grasshoppers Have Some Interesting and Complicated Mouths
. Mouth Parts This is an older photo that I had genuinely forgotten I had taken. It was taken back...
Robber Flies Can be Unpredictable and Interesting
Up, Up, and Away Yesterday I decided to take what I call a “bug walk” around my property. After several...
Carpenter Ants are Surprisingly Tidy Little Insects
Clean Feet Most of us tend to think of insects are dirty, germ infested animals that have very little intelligence....
Here’s Another Beautiful and Perfectly Perched Insect
Balanced Butterflies aren’t the only insects that can balance on an incredibly small, delicate bit of vegetation. Dragonflies are real...
Here is Another Colorful Male Eastern Pondhawk
Almost Changed Not too long ago I showed you guys a photo of an Eastern pondhawk dragonfly (Erythemis simplicicollis) who...
The Tiny and Beautiful Male Familiar Bluet is Quite Colorful
Familiar You never know what you might come across wandering around in the wetlands around the cattle egret rookery. In...
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