Florida has Plenty of Big, Colorful Dragonflies
Red Glow With all of our swamps, streams, lakes, rivers, and ponds, it’s not surprising that we have more than...
Eastern Bumble Bees are Some of the Very Best Pollinators
Big Bumble Last week when I was out there, the roadside in front of the cattle egret rookery was filled...
The Brown Winged Sweat Bees are Beautiful Little Bees
Brown Wings Up until very recently, there have been a lot of these cute little male brown winged sweat bees...
An Eastern Pondhawk that’s Changing Color is a Beautiful Sight
Changing Even though the main attraction of the cattle egret rookery is the birds, they are far from the only...
The Ilia Underwing is a Beautiful Summer Moth
Ilia Underwing This little beauty was taking her afternoon siesta on the wall of my dog house one afternoon. I...
Gulf Fritillaries are Some Really Colorful Butterflies
Flitting Fritillary A short time ago I showed everyone the spiky orange caterpillar of the gulf fritillary butterfly (Agraulis vanillae),...
Most Honeybees Really Love Colorful Flowering Trees
Arrival Central Florida provides a good environment for growing quite a few types of flowering trees and our rural area...
Beautiful Female Blue Dashers Look Very Different from Males
A Dash of Gold As I have mentioned before, there seem to be a lot of blue dashers around this...
Colorful Palamedes Swallowtail Butterflies Can be Part of an Interesting Mating Dance
In Hot Persuit Another interesting aspect of having found a tree that the Palamedes swallowtails (Papilio palamedes) absolutely love is...
Colorful Gulf Fritillary Caterpillars are Quite Striking with Many Spikes
Life on Passion Fruit I had been starting to wonder if I was going to get any passion fruit vines...
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