Category Archives: Insects

I’m being held hostage!

By responsibilities, deadlines, one event and one application scheduled and due in three weeks….and by Brood X! These things are everywhere around here. In parks, in parking lots, in our backyard, front yard, front and back porch and they are … Continue reading

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They’re Back!

The Butterflies and Blooms exhibit at Franklin Park Conservatory here in Columbus, Ohio is back! To see more of these beauties please visit my other blog, What’s Happening Ohio here. Isn’t that tongue amazing? Teri 📷 🦋

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I spy with my compound eye…

Sony A7R3 – 90mm macro – 1/500 – f3.5 – ISO200 – Julia Heliconian/Julia Butterfly Teri 📷

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Sadness…

He was my go to person and expert when it came to identifying butterflies and a renowned English geologist.  He was part of our wedding.  We both enjoyed having a pint at the pub or wherever the pint may have … Continue reading

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Finding a place to just be… and bee

This is the last day of July and yet another month under the cloud of a virus and all of the other things that have made this year what it has been.  I won’t go into that but you know! … Continue reading

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Honey Bee

“Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don’t they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.”  ― Ray Bradbury  Teri 📷

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Monarch on Milkweed

It’s a Monday monarch on a milkweed day!  That’s a lot of alliteration isn’t it? Teri 📷 Want to see where this butterfly flutters?  Come visit What’s Happening Ohio and see!

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Seasons Overlap

The calendar has announced that here in this hemisphere we have just entered the season of fall.  But as we all know, no matter what the calendars say, nature may and often says something different.  Nature has been known to … Continue reading

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Busy bee

The goal for the day was to go out and try to track and capture birds in flight but I found myself drawn to my old favorites of butterflies and bees and as we were in an area that was … Continue reading

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Thar be dragons!

Little ones – dragonflies to be exact 😉 Teri  📷

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