Native Insects, Pollinators & Butterflies
Yarrow with Flower Fly
Pale Lilac Japanese Iris with Wasp
"Diablo" Ninebark with Pollinator
"Mango Tango" Potentilla with Pollinator
White Admiral, Limenitis arthemis arthemis
White Admiral, Limenitis arthemis arthemis
Twelve-spotted Skimmer
Silver-spotted Skipper (Epargyreus clarus) on Knapweed
Silver-spotted Skipper (Epargyreus clarus) on Knapweed
Flower Fly on Gallardia
Bumble Bee on Knapweed
'Flower Fly' Pollinator on Chicory (Cornflower)
'Painted Lady' butterfly, pumping up her wings, on 'Moonlight' yarrow
Native Aclepias Tuberosa (Orange Butterfly weed), with Bumblebee
Monarch Caterpillar on Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias Incarnata)
Monarch 'Cat' on Swamp Milkweed
Swamp Milkweed Beetle, grazing
Am. Lady caterpillar, early instar
Am. Lady caterpillar, early instar
American Lady caterpillar (late instar) on Pearly Everlastings
American Lady caterpillar (late instar) on Pearly Everlastings
Am. Lady Caterpillar getting ready to create its fluffy 'sleeping bag' from Pearly Everlasting's flowers
Pearly Everlastings with Am. Lady Butterfly Caterpillar in its 'hide out'
Brown-hooded Owlet caterpillar, on Goldenrod
'Puddling' Tiger Swallowtails sucking up minerals & nutrients from a wet spot
America Painted lady, on Tithonia (Mexican Sunflower)
Bumble on Sunflower
Painted Ladies on White Swan echinacea
Black Cohosh with Pollinators
Black Cohosh with Pollinators
Female Monarch on "Alma Potschke" New England Aster
Monarchs & Bumble on New England Aster
Monarch on New England Aster
Male Monarch on New England Aster
Go, Monarch, Go!!!
Monarch on New England Aster
Monarch on Black Cohosh's "Fairy Wands"
Monarch visiting Deep Pink Phlox
Bumblebee on Daffodil's Trumpet
Tiny Pollinator on Daffodil's Trumpet
Golden Orb Spider on rambling, Double Oriental Poppy
Golden Orb Spider, on Poppy
Videos