Tangled Web

Perhaps this quote from the Swiss naturalist Louis Agassiz summarizes the following pages and images best:

"I spent the summer traveling; I got halfway across my back yard."

Saturday, August 30, 2008

BIG Dragonflies

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Despite its striking colours this large dragonfly was nevertheless well concealed against the tangled background of vegetation. Maybe it was...
Tuesday, August 26, 2008

The Meadowhawks ... Sympetrum sp.

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The red abdomens tell us the small dragonflies in the first few photos are males but it can be hard to nail down the species. A mature White...

Metamorphosis

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The Dogday Harvestfly (Tibicen canicularis) goes through incomplete metamorphosis, having only three stages in its life cycle: egg, nymph an...

Working the Night Shift ... Little Brown Bat (Myotis lucifugus)

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This little fellow just was hanging out waiting for the sun to go down. I wanted a picture of his (or maybe it's a her, I didn't che...
Monday, August 25, 2008

Praying Mantis (Mantis religiosa)

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It's fair to say that this is the insect that piqued my amateur interest in entomology so many years ago. The eyespot visible under the ...

Exoprosopa decora and Systoechus sp.

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As its name suggests this fly is indeed decorated. Bee flies are quite wary and it took a good deal of patience to approach closely enough t...
Saturday, August 23, 2008

Can't touch this ...

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There were a couple of dozen of these Black Blister Beetles (Epicauta pennsylvanica) ... for some reason all clustered on one goldenrod out ...
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