Jack in the Puzzle

Magnolia Ballet

Dance of the Pollinating Bees



Video Clip

Silhouette on the Screen

Magnolia

Color Burst

Purple coneflower

Potter Wasp on Penta

Eastern Tailed-Blue

I had thought this might be a Gray Hairstreak, but the folks at bugguide.net identified it as an Eastern Tailed-Blue.

Green on Green

Green bottle fly on the leaf of a sweet potato vine.

Penstemon Digitalis

Common name: Foxglove beardtongue

Music and the Arts

Ethan

Silver-spotted Skipper

The ends of the antennae on skippers hook backward like a crochet hook.

Hummingbird Wannabe

Bees Galore

at the white crape myrtle.

Young Fledgling

Mockingbird or Brown Thrasher?

Hiding in the Grass

Hummingbird Moth

Looks like I needed a faster shutter speed than 1/1000 of a second to capture the wings.

Developing

Purple Coneflower

Little Bunny

This little fellow (about 6 inches) appeared at the house yesterday. Maybe he is a descendant of our visiting rabbit from two years ago ( see post ) .

American Lady

The American Lady is distinguished from the Painted Lady by the two large eyespots on the underside of the hind wing.

Rufous-sided Towhee (male)

Sarah P. Duke Gardens

Yellow Hibiscus

Pollen Basket

Bumblebee at a 'whirling butterfly' bloom. Enlarge the photo and take note of the grains of pollen on body and the clump of the pollen in the pollen basket on the rear leg.