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Monarch Chrysalis
On one of my walks around the backyard looking for spiders, I found a monarch butterfly chrysalis in an old garage that will be torn down soon. I watched the chrysalis— daily, waiting for the butterfly...
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Wonders Never Cease
Common Milkweed Four common milkweed plants grow beside the back garage (which will be torn down this summer). A few insects visit the flowers, and a white crab spider hides on the underneath side of...
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What a Surprise! Part 1
I went out after supper last night, and there on the side of the sweetgum tree was a luna moth. I haven’t seen one of these for years! It tolerated my presence while I took pictures … and more...
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What a Surprise Part 2
I went out in the yard the next evening, and there lay a luna moth on the ground. I didn’t see any movement. Another one lay close by. It didn’t move any either. None of the ones I saw moved. I walked...
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Blue Dasher
The numbers of butterflies and dragonflies were extremely low in southern Illinois last summer. I think this dragonfly was a male blue dasher. I don’t need a name to enjoy things I find. Just the...
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Predator – Butterfly
Several pearl crescent butterflies visit the sedum plants in the moon garden. They concentrate more on eating than watching out for predators. It’s hard to see from the angle of the camera that there’s...
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Fall Flutterers
Monarch butterflies haven’t been as numerous as they have in previous years. Silver-spotted skippers have a white spot on the underside of their hindwings, and American painted ladies have four...
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Yard Mysteries
I’ll start this blog with an …. “I have absolutely no idea what these “things” are.” The ones in this and the next picture were all found on the outside of the south window of my bedroom. This one was...
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Milkweed Bugs
Colorful Milkweed bugs feed on the sap inside the pod of the Milkweed plant.
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Immature Ladybugs
Ladybugs have held my attention lately. There’s been so many of them. This pupa stage of a ladybug was on the trunk of a maple tree, and the shed of another one was the other trunk. There were...
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