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Papilio palamades, Palamedes swallowtail

Cirsium horridulum, bristle thistle (aka horrid thistle)

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A butterfly with black and yellow patterned wings perched on a yellow thistle flower with thistles leaves, buds and other foliage in the background. The butterfly is facing left and has its proboscis poking inside the top spines of the flower. The thistle flower is a green ball of spines with small spiny arugula-like leaves wrapped around the bud. On top of the green ball are numerous yellow spikes.
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    Syrphus ribesii, flower fly on Coccolaba spinescens

    First black swallowtail caterpillar of the season on fennel, Papilio polyxenes

    Dolichovespula maculata, bald-faced hornet

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    A close-up image of a tiny black caterpillar with a middle white stripe on fennel fronds. The tiny caterpillar has lots of spines. The image of the fennel is so close-up, it looks like the nervous system of an animal except completely green.
    A close-up of a bald-faced hornet on a wooden plank. The hornet has its head down and is scraping off bits of wood which you can see bc it is leaving a trail where it is scratching. The hornet is mostly black with yellow markings on its head, ventral side of its thorax and anterior of its abdomen. The wings are brown and translucent.

    A hoverfly with yellow and black stripes on the back of a leaf. Light is shining through the leaf so that the numerous veins glow neon green. The light also shines through the abdomen of the hover fly and makes the insect appear translucent. The background is blue sky with faded green from a large tree 
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    Please like these photos.

    This bug was so fast. Followed it around for 15’ and these were the best pics I got. Oh well.

    Hemaris deffinis, snowberry clearing (aka hummingbird moth) on Salvia lyrata, lyre leaf sage

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    A hummingbird moth feeding on lavender tube-shaped flowers with a green background. There are new buds of flowers at the top of the pic and those are dark purple. The thorax is very fuzzy and yellow, and the abdomen is black and fuzzy. Its wings are clear but with black veins. And the photo they’re rather blurry because they beat very fast. In this pic, the moth has pulled away and its proboscis is hanging out in front.
    A hummingbird moth with black and yellow coloring hovering near purple flowers. This is a download facing pic. Its head is in the flower.
    Close-up of a hummingbird moth feeding on purple flowers against a green grassy background. This pic the hummingbird moth is facing right with its head in a flower.

    A hummingbird moth feeding on lavender tube-shaped downward-facing flowers with a green, grassy background. The thorax is very fuzzy and yellow, and the abdomen is black and fuzzy. Its wings are clear but with black veins. And the photo they’re rather blurry because they beat very fast. The moth in this pic has its whole head in the flower and his clasping onto the flower from the sides.
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    Eurytides marcellus, zebra swallowtail on Rubus allegheniensis, wild blackberry

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    A zebra swallowtail butterfly on leafy green blackberry brambles full of white buds and white flowers. This pic is taken more towards its side and is facing top left. The wings are mostly open and the left wing is pointed to the camera.

    A zebra swallowtail butterfly on leafy green blackberry brambles full of white buds and white flowers. The black stripes run parallel to its black body, except on the end of his wings where curves at an angle with the shape of its wings. At the end of its wings is an eye spot that looks more red-haired matryoshka doll head with black eyes nose and mouth. Above either side of the doll is dusted iridescent blue specks. The tips of the swallowtail’s tails are white.
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    This is moss!

    Diphasiastrum digitatum, fan clubmoss (aka ground cedar, bears paw, crows foot)

    Gelsemium sempervirens, Carolina Jessamine

    Praying mantis ootheca

    Pteridium aquilinum, common bracken

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    Two yellow trumpet-like flowers with sunlight directed towards them. The bell is flared out to a star shape. It is growing on a vine with narrow green lanceolate leaves.
    A praying mantis ootheca hanging on to a green stem. It is brown and looks like a dry brown sponge
    A close up of a small green curled fern leaflet. To the left further down the stem, the leaflets are more unfurled, to the right they are coiled tightly on the stem.

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    The most beautiful fly I have ever seen in my life. So beautiful!

    So AMAZE! 💚❤️😍😭😍❤️💚

    Sphecomyia vittata, long horned Yellowjacket fly

    Amelanchier canadensis, serviceberry

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    A gloriously beautiful fly that looks a bit like a bee on white flowers with green foliage in the background. The direction of the photo is looking down on the fly’s head. The eyes are an opaque matte black and look like a bikini top on its head. The rest of the head is sunflower yellow with a long black stripe in the center. It has a black tongue sticking into the flower. The thorax is mostly black with two pairs of short yellow stripes. Its two wings are resting closed together and are translucent reddish brown. The legs are long, thin and reddish towards the tarsi and yellow near the abdomen. The flowers are closely packed together on a stem with thin white petals looking like they’re barely hanging on to the green star-shaped cup center.

    A gloriously beautiful fly that looks a bit like a bee on white flowers with green foliage in the background. The fly has a plump body with sunflower yellow and black stripes and big black eyes and thick blunt antennae in the shape of a V on its head. The thorax is mostly black with yellow stripes going in the opposite direction. Its two wings are resting closed together and are translucent reddish brown. The legs are long, thin and reddish towards the tarsi and yellow near the abdomen. The flowers are clustered very close together on a stalk and have thin white petals that seem haphazardly arranged, green stamens, long thin filaments and yellow anthers. There are small leaflets poking out from under the flower cluster.
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    I got ants in my plants.

    Ants aerate the soil, allowing nutrients to reach roots as well as decomposing matter and adding their own nutrients to the soil.

    Video was taken from up-potting one of my favorite tropical fruit shrubs. To foster ant mutuals, don’t use pesticides.

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    Video image shows the side of an unpotted plant’s root system. The white-ish tan roots reach around the side of the smooth clump of dirt and there is a crack in the dirt going horizontally. Reddish brown ants are going in and out of the crack at a fast pace.

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    84F/29C, climate zone 8, East Coast, NA. Wild blackberries blooming, Oct.28th.

    Pure golden green sweat bee on Allegheny blackberry. (Augochlora pura, Rubus allegheniensis)

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    A cluster of blackberry flowers. The bottom right flower has gloriously green-gold-copper iridescent little bees surrounding the ovules forming a circle head to butt in the center. Another green iridescent bee is peering over a right flower petal curiously. Blackberry flowers are 6 white ovary petals with a green-yellow fuzzy center with an explosion of white filaments with tiny brown anthers. The flower’s anthers with the bees are still whitish yellow and clustered in the center of the flower. Behind the flowers are green blackberry leaves.
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    On both flowers left of the focused one there is a crab-spider each.
    What a meeting.
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    Polistes fuscatus, dark paper wasp on Passiflora incarnata, maypop

    Maypops are starting to turn bright yellow for the fall. 🍂

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    A large mostly black wasp sits on a bright yellow folded leaf. The weight of the insect is making the leaf curl. The wasp has yellow bands on its abdomen and has hooked antennae like a shepherd’s crook. Its wings are translucent amber fading to black at the tips. Its legs are black to translucent amber towards the tarsii. Below the insect are more bright yellow leaves and behind it are light green leaves.
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