“The butterfly is a flying flower, the flower a tethered butterfly.”
– Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun
Tag Archives: Insects
Silver-spotted skipper
Came across this butterfly on a lunchtime walk. So grateful for nature to be close by where I work.
Blooming Butterflies
After a two-year hiatus (pandemic), the Blooming Butterflies exhibit at Olbrich Gardens was back again this year.
View more →Waiting for lunch
An ambush bug waits patiently on a black-eyed Susan for a meal to drop by.
Watch out woolly bears!
Saw all kinds of woolly bear caterpillars on the trail while biking the other day. It was a challenge to avoid running them over! This one had a pretty wide rusty-brown band, so if one believes the folklore, it should be a mild winter in southern Wisconsin.
View more →Fueling for the journey
I’ve heard the monarch butterflies are beginning to migrate south for the season. This one found these purple asters a good spot to fuel up for the journey.
A proverbial busy bee
At Olbrich Botanical Gardens the other day, I followed this bee around for quite a while, as she scurried from flower to flower, circling each one, and sometimes digging deep to gather the flower’s nectar. I got to thinking… there’s a lesson here. If you can’t find what nourishes you, keep trying, dig deeper if you have to. Eventually you’ll find it.
View more →Red-spotted purple butterfly
My first butterfly photo of the season — always a welcome sight.
Pearl crescent butterfly
Probably my last butterfly sighting of the season — they won’t be around much longer.
Bees on a thistle blossom
