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."

Friday, August 13, 2010

Dogday Harvestfly or Annual Cicada (Tibicen sp.)

›

One seldom encounters these large, fearsome looking but completely harmless insects at close range as they generally stay high up in the tre...

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Black Saddlebags (Tramea lacerata)

›

An uncommon dragonfly locally, this teneral male is only my second encounter with a Black Saddlebags, my last sighting was in August of 2008...

Monday, August 9, 2010

Canada Darner (Aeshna canadensis), Black-tipped Darner (Aeshna tuberculifera) and Shadow Darner (Aeshna umbrosa)

›

This Canada Darner (Aeshna canadensis) is an immature female, and also a bit cold, so it lacks the depth of color of a mature adult. A large...

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Common Green Darner (Anax junius)

›

A large darner with a length of about 80 mm, this immature male's abdomen will turn blue with age (a female's abdomen retains the re...

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Calico Pennant (Celithemis elisa)

›

At 30 mm in length this dragonfly is smaller than the Halloween Pennant. The Calico Pennant seems to be less common in this area than the Ha...

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery ...

›

... and for many species it's also a means of ensuring survival. Batesian mimicry is a kind of mimicry where a harmless species has evol...

‹

›

Home

View web version

So, who's responsible for this?

View my complete profile