Lately I’ve Been Missing All of Our Colorful Insects
Fall Dasher The weather is finally starting to warm up (not that we couldn’t end up with more cold before...
Bright, Colorful Packages Can Come in a Plain Brown Wrapper
A Vivid Surprise A dull brown butterfly feeds quietly on a flower. A flutter of wings or a change in...
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....
Eastern Bumble Bees are Big and Fuzzy
Bumbledore I couldn’t resist the name on the first photo because, yes, I am a Harry Potter nerd. And although...
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....
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