Monarch on Cup Plant.

 Wild Onion flower.

 

Good to see the large yellow and black Garden spiders again.

 

 Virgin's Brower, a 1 inch flowered native climatis that attracts many pollinators

 Male Tiger Swallowtail on Tiger Lily.  The top photo shows this butterfly had been attacked.

 

 

 Bobbie photographed this 2 inch Hummingbird Moth sipping nectar from a wild bergamot.

 

 

 Wild St. Johnswort on our prairie.

 

 

This Monarch survived over 7 inches of battering rains at our place over the last 36 hours.

 

Mom brought her fawn up to dash around our lawn this morning as she dined on our flowers.

 Male Blue Dasher Dragonfly.

 Bobbie shot this Fritillary on Butterfly Milkweed.

 Granite erosional  Needle spires of the Black Hills.

 

 Hill City, S.D. Museum.  A must see.