Insects | Our Natural Places

Flowerful !

(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) Pre-dawn mist which had settled into depressions appeared as little ground-clouds across the vast pastureland adjacent to the Green Swamp. Morning flights...

Category: Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: blue dasher, brown-winged striped sweat bee, cutleaf evening primrose, ferns, florida bellflower, forest, fourpetal st. johnswort, green swamp, jumping spider, leavenworth's tickseed, mason bee, phaon crescent, purple thistle, savanna iris, southern beeblossom lyreleaf sage, starrush whitetop, swollen bladderwort

Happy New Year!

(Yes, we’re late to the party but we hope you are all well into living your best life as a new year brings so many new opportunities. Gini and I are...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, carolina yellow-eyed grass, cloudless sulphur, eastern lubber grasshopper, golden silk spider, green swamp, little blue dragonlet, ornate bella moth, pine lily, purple false foxglove, purple loosestrife, red-femured spotted orbweaver, richloam wma, skyflower, sleepy orange, southern broken-dash, spurred butterfly pea, tall elephantsfoot, tufted titmouse, vanillaleaf, virginia buttonweed, withlacoochee state forest

Falling In The Afternoon

(Click on image to enlarge, click again to zoom.) Previously, in “Falling In The Morning”, I alluded to the fact that Ranger Sunny provided a nugget of information which I had...

Category: Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, bigpod sesbania, butterflies, celestial lily, colt creek state park, longhorn bog orchid, pine lily, sunflower, white-tailed deer

Falling In The Morning

(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) (Note: This visit to Colt Creek State Park occurred on September 17, 2024. On October 8, during the night and the following...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, american beautyberry, colt creek state park, eastern bluebird, forked bluecurls, gator creek, green heron, mac lake, panicled ticktrefoil, pine warbler, pitted stripeseed, prairie warbler, sleepy orange, tall elephantsfoot, viceroy, white ibis

… And The Livin’ Is Easy

(Click on images to enlarge, click again to zoom.) Summertime. Hot. Humid. Perfect. Starting early helps maintain a modicum of comfort. Until the sun rises above the tree line. Now it’s...

Category: Birds, Fauna, Flora, Florida, Insects, Photography Tags: american alligator, american lotus, climbing hempvine, eastern pondhawk, grassleaf lettuce, great blue heron, limpkin, red-shouldered hawk, redwinged blackbird, sweetscent, tenoroc fma, trumpet creeper, whitemouth dayflower

Our Natural Places

Exploring - Naturally