Insects | Our Natural Places

Bright (Bright) Sunshiny Day*

(Note: We’re changing to a somewhat more stable header image which will probably be some sort of generic Florida habitat display.) We love exploring new places. The excitement of finding something...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: barred yellow, belted kingfisher, blazing star, great egret, gulf fritillary, northern parula, red-headed woodpecker, salt marsh moth larva, spurred butterfly pea, tievine, white ibis, white-tailed deer

Field, Forest, Fun

Header Image: Sandhill Cranes Thank goodness we have venues nearby where we can travel less than ten minutes and enjoy birds, blooms and bugs! If we had to plan for a...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american kestrel, bald eagle, common ground dove, coyote, northern parula, ornate bella moth, palm warbler, prairie warbler, red-femured spotted orbweaver, sandhill crane, spicebush swallowtail, tenoroc public use area, tufted titmouse, wild bushbean

It Is Our Nature To Be Happy

Header Image: White-tailed Deer “What a really nice morning!” This was the second time Gini had made that statement since we left the state park. As we pulled into the Bar-B-Que...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: bar-winged skimmer, black-and-white warbler, blue-gray gnatcatcher, dorantes longtail, eastern black swallowtail, fiery skipper, gold-marked thread-waisted wasp, green lynx spider, red saddlebags, white-eyed vireo, white-tailed deer

Header Image: Spotted Beebalm (Monarda punctata) Early morning sunshine illuminated the forest’s shadowy places and dried the dampness left by last night’s dew. Insects roused from their torpor to start their...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: band-winged dragonlet, barred yellow, camphorweed, carolina wren, eastern amberwing, eastern bluebird, eastern pondhawk, giant swallowtail, gophter tortoise, great pondhawk, ovenbird, roseate skimmer, royal river cruiser, showy rattlebox, snowy egret, southern green-striped grasshopper, spicebush swallowtail, spotted beebalm, tenoroc fish management area, wild hogs

A Grand Day Out*

Header Image: American Alligator Pre-dawn gray slowly transformed into stunningly bright blue skies and a glance to the east risked temporary blindness as the sun announced its arrival. Every field was...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, american beautyberry, butterfly milkweed, carolina saddlebags, coastal plain yelloweyed grass, common eastern bumble bee, florida garden spider, fungi, great crested flycatcher, lake wales ridge state forest, little blue dragonlet, narrowleaf primose-willow, pale meadowbeauty, partridge pea, pipevine swallowtail, red-bellied woodpecker, red-femured spotted orbweaver, sensitive brier, spurred butterfly pea, whitemouth dayflower, zebra swallowtail

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