More Humming Bird photos

Silver-spotted Skipper on Blazing Star.

8 inch fungi.

Stiff Gentian on our prairie.

Cicada-this 1.5 inch creature makes the loud high pitch buzzing noise that comes from the tree tops on hot August days.

Pollen covered Bumble Bee on Canada Goldenrod.

Great Egret.

Great Egrets, Mississippi backwaters.

Monarch on Rough Blazing Star, Lake Louise State Park.

The Garden Spider's two foot web is a master piece of design engineering.  Found this one on the prairie this morning.

THREE DAMSELFLIES

Bluet damselfly.  The Bluets are a family of blue Damselflies that all look very similar(except for the Orange Bluet).  Damselflies are smaller and more delicate featured than dragonflies-hard to photograph.

Orange Bluet.

Silver-spotted Skipper.

Great Spangled Fritillary.

Painted Lady Butterflies.

Red Admiral butterfly.

Painted turtle.

Bluet Damselfly.

Orange Bluet Damselfly-first one we have ever photographed.

Green Darner(male) dragonfly.  Green Darners actually migrate south in the fall-how far south is unknown.  We are seeing more of them lately and at times in late summer we have had 30-40 working our lawn for bugs at a time.

Song Sparrow on Cup Plant.

Garter Snake-was not intimidated by me.

Sulphur butterfly on Purple Coneflower.

Giant Swallowtail.

Tri-colored Bumble Bee-notice that it has an orange stripe instead of the common yellow stripe of most species of Bumble Bee.

Black/green Ambush bugs attacking a honey bee.

Canada or Green-stripped Darner dragonfly.

Tiger Swallowtail.

Monarch on Blazing Star.

Hummer in our flower garden  We think it is a young male.

Melanaphy Spring N.W. of Decorah, Iowa.

Common Yellowthroat on our prairie today.

Tiger Swallowtail (Bobbie).

Another Giant Swallowtail. (Bobbie).

Giant Swallowtail underside. (Bobbie).

Giant Swallowtails can separate their hindwings and forewings-a bit unusual. (Bobbie).

Tiger Swallowtail on Purple Coneflower. (Bobbie).