Insects & Spiders ~ through 2011 ~ |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2004-2012) |
Spider web |
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Bumble Bee on Passion Flower |
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Eastern Tiger Swallowtail on tomato plant |
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Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - Black form (female) |
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Another spider web, in the morning light |
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Moth on Passion Flower (maypop) |
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Nice camouflage on this owlet moth |
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Gulf Fritillary with wing damage | Side view shows underside colors |
Another Gulf Fritillary |
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Cicada carcass They only live a few weeks after emerging from their nymph-stage exoskeletons |
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Leaf-footed Bug |
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One of the Sulphur butterflies |
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Black Swallowtail |
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Male bonding - a couple of Potter Wasps |
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Variegated Fritillary |
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Another Leaf-footed Bug |
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Katydid (or did she?) |
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Sulphur butterfly - still around in mid-November |
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Female Ebony Jewelwing |
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Baby Praying Mantis on chair back (it was only about 1/2" long) |
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About two weeks later; same mantis? Up to 1" now! |
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Leaf foot bug on the chimney after a shower |
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Red wasp gnawing off piece of wood to chew into paper for nest |
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Blue Dasher dragonfly |
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Robber Fly |
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Praying Mantis - all grown up, and looking quite dapper... |
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Walking stick |
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Bald-faced hornet |