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...
Bee Flies are Very Cool and Interesting Little Flies
Rainbows and Varigations Florida is well known for having more than its share of flies, many of which bite or...
Blue Dashers are Incredible Gems of the Dragonfly World
Blue Deluxe Along with numerous flowers, come numerous insects, and along with insects come predators. One type of highly successful...
Imperfection Doesn’t Keep this Ladybeetle from being Beautiful
Imperfection One afternoon, while I was photographing flowers, I discovered this little multicolored Asian ladybeetle (Harmonia axyridis), crawling among the...
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