Black Swallowtail Caterpillar
Swallowtails are challenging for me to identify, and the only one I can remember is the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail; it’s the only one with more yellow than black! The swallowtails […]
Parks & Nature Connection
Parks & Nature Connection – a monthly series learning about Florida’s awesome flora and fauna! What I love about my job as a Recreation Program Specialist is connecting people to […]
A Day Trip To San Felasco Hammock Preserve State Park
I belong to a ladies’ photo/hiking group. It actually started some years ago when I met four extraordinary ladies during a photography workshop. This workshop was a creative photography workshop […]
Weed Appreciation Day
“Others may see them as a weed, but a butterfly and a bee may tend to disagree.” What exactly is a weed? A weed is a plant considered undesirable in […]
(Eastern) Black Swallowtail
You know when you are out photographing, you never know what you will find, but once you find it, you’re like ‘WOE.’ Nature always surprises me and teaches me so […]
New Butterfly!
A new butterfly to put on my species list… Hackberry Emperor! I was just looking around and I saw something land on the pine tree. I was guessing it was […]
Thistle Pollinators — the video
Four minutes and thirteen seconds of bees and butterflies
Thistle Pollinators
It’s going to be a wonderful spring season when you see massive sized thistle plants growing. Seriously, I have never seen thistle quite like this before. Standing over 5 feet […]
More Cloudless Sulphurs
Clouded, Orange, Dog Face, trying to ID these are confusing, but looking at quite a few photos I may have found a way to ID Cloudless Sulphur; the eyes In […]
Palamedes Swallowtail Butterfly
With all the thistle that is blooming and adding some pretty pink color just before the Fall season, more swallowtails are gathering. For some reason, I think the thistles are […]
Ceraunus Blue butterfly
If anyone knows about these little blues, they are very hard to photograph. Every time you try to get just close enough they fly away. It was my lucky day […]
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