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
