Milkweed seeds are starting to emerge. Seems to have drawn some boxelder bug interest.
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Painted lady
Mullberry wing
I caught this mullberry wing butterfly lunching on some purpletop vervain. They’re so small for a butterfly! I assumed it was a moth before I looked it up.
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Mating green darners
More dragonfly chasing… These mating green darner dragonflies were zooming all around the pond together for quite a while. They landed a few times when the female (in the back) would dip her abdomen in the water to release the fertilized eggs.
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Pollinating
Purple aster pollinator
Monarch butterfly.
Happiness is a butterfly
View more →“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
Gulf Fritillary Butterfly
This colorful beauty was my favorite of the butterflies I saw at the Olbrich Gardens Blooming Butterflies exhibit. I like to think they were looking back at me with the same fascination I had for them.
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