Insects to include butterflies, bees, dragonflies, etc.
Bumblebee Just Arrived At A New Flower – This is a good example of a Bumblebee showing summing all the previous images in this series. The head can be seen making the previous image that much more impressive. The glob of pollen on its hip is quite obvious as well. I had to crop this …
Bumblebee on Sage 2 – I took a lot of photos of this Bumblebee as it worked its way around the yard. It seemed to me to be a laborious task for the little creature to visit so many flower blossoms and scoop up all the pollen it could carry. But that is exactly how …
Bumblebee With its Pollen Stash – As the Bumblebees work their way around our backyard and the potpourri of native plants, they store the pollen in globs on their hips. If you look hard at this image you can see the pollen on the bee’s left hip. It is a darker shade of yellow than …
Bumblebee on Sage – One of the many wonderful facts about having one’s yard reflect the natural habitat of the area is that it then attracts many different species of wildlife. We have been so lucky to have Bumblebees enjoy nectaring on our Texas Sage, Salvi greggii, since we first installed it. I have always …
Checkered Setwing on Cactus – After posing so nicely on a bare tree branch the Checkered Setwing of the family Dragonfly moved to the very tip of one of our Century Plants and remained absolutely still allowing me to get photos of him with a less busy background. The background is the outside wall of …
Checkered Setwing – This is a dragonfly from the Skimmer Family. We frequently see these wonderful creatures hanging around the native plants in our yard. They are hard to catch in flight, but regularly they land on the ends of plants. This one spent several minutes on the very end of a small tree branch …
Fritillary – I was amazed at how cooperative this creature was. It let me get right over it to capture this image. I found this fritillary along the Big Horn trail just west of Indian Creek Campground in Yellowstone National Park. You nor I have lost our minds. This is not a bird. However, this …