>
Dragonflies like this male Variegated Meadowhawk, Sympetrum corruptum, are usually in abundance at desert wetlands (Roy P. Drachman Agua Caliente Regional Park outside of Tucson in this case). This year has seen a severe shortage of insects in general.
Desert Tenebrion – Onymacris unguicularis -This insect lives in the desert, eating the plants found in the desert.
On the 21st of April me and 3 friends went to Tollymore forest park. It turned out to be a fantastic sunny day apart from the haze which really spoiled some of the landscape shots however the forest shots turned out fantastic. It was a 14km walk roughly and quite …
Flickr Friend Mindy and I headed out for a day of photo fun in Anza Borrego Desert, a nice drive out on a beautiful SoCal day, top down in the Mustang. It was well worth the trip, we saw lots of great color with all the spring time blooms and …
The Coffee-Loving Pyrausta moth, Pyrausta tyralis, is a colorful, albeit diminutive, insect. This one at the Tucson Botanical Gardens may well have been on caffeine. It was very skittish and difficult to approach.
Xylophanes tersa, mimicking a snake to ward of a predator (me). This fellow was eating the last nibbles of an unknown plant in the middle of a forest road, so I moved him off the road to more of the same plant. Apalachicola National Forest, Liberty County, FL
Thread-waisted wasps in the genus Ammophila are usually quite wary and difficult to image, but this one was preoccupied sipping nectar from the blossom of a Fendler’s Globemallow in Brown Canyon.
