Even when a flower isn’t the prettiest, the butterfly finds nourishment there. Another lesson from Mother Nature.
Tag Archives: Insects
Scenes from a night ride
August blooms
Catching up on some flower photos from this month. First, a moonflower after a rain shower.
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Monarch butterfly, being regal on a pink throne.
Butterflies at Olbrich
I spent some time hanging out with the Blooming Butterflies at Olbrich Botanical Gardens the other day.
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“The butterfly is a flying flower, the flower a tethered butterfly.”
– Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun
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.
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