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, June 22, 2013

The Queen of the Hornets

Beautifully colored and patterned, robust, and close to 40 mm in length, this is definitely the largest hymenopteran I have encountered to d...

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Luna Moth

With a wingspan of about 11 centimeters, Actias luna is not the largest of the Saturniid or Giant Silk Moths, but in my opinion it is defini...

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

The Hunt for the Juniper Hairstreak

Callophrys gryneus gryneus, the eastern subspecies of the Juniper Hairstreak, is considered to be rare, but if you search in the proper habi...

Hudsonian Whiteface (Leucorrhinia hudsonica)

Two or three pairs of eyes are better than one, and it's fortunate that I had a friend along on this particular nature photography hike,...

Slender Fragile Fern

It's one of nature's ironies that sometimes the seemingly delicate and fragile living things inhabit the most challenging, inhospita...

Friday, May 10, 2013

Ontario's One and Only Lizard

These are images that I never dreamed I would capture, for two reasons. One is that the Common Five-lined Skink is wary and moves like greas...

An Abbott's Sphinx, a Grapevine Epimenis and a Luna Moth

You know it's going to be a good day when there's a cool moth you've never seen before hanging out on the wall outside your door...

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