Not as exciting as butterflies I keep missing the shots lately, but still fun! Enjoy looking.

Negro Bug

Soldier Beetle


Two Long-legged Flies in Jewel Tones

Daddy Long Legs- Bleech! I still can't bear to touch anything that even resembles a spider.

1st(I think) instar of Black Swallowtail caterpillar

Cuckoo Wasp decked out in best her green outfit

Potter/mason Wasp on Rue

Love is in the Air! Milkweed Beetles on Swamp Milkweed flower. Sometimes we love to hold one gently to our ear to hear it screech.

Female Bumblebee with hugely loaded pollen baskets(Corbicula) from the rear on swamp milkweed flower. One basket can hold a million grains of pollen!

Here she is again sticking her tongue into the flower. She stops a lot to groom herself using a special notch on her front legs and more combs on her middle legs.

Bumbles really adore this type of catmint: Nepeta subsessilis "Sweet Dreams" I planted lots of it


Another Bumble mid-flight going to regular catmint.

Grapeleaf Skeletonizer moth on Red Osier Dogwood

Love them!! Wonderful photos, Cheryl!

I think just about all bugs are exciting to look at.

Outstanding! And that is an early instar of the Black Swallowtail. I see you have Rue in one of your other photos. That is a host plant for them.

Thanks so much ladies! I really enjoy the hunt to get their pictures as much as the rest of you. Plants that don't feed insects seem kinda boring to me. Mel, growing everything I can for the swallowtails: dill, fennel, rue, carrot, even golden alexanders. Any other host plant?

Parsley is another one. Curled and flat-leaf. You probably want to stay away from the poisonous ones like Water Hemlock. Mock Bishop's Weed is another one. Queen Anne's Lace works, too. Sounds like you have quite the variety for them already!