Insects and more on Muscatatuck NWR, IN: 6-1-17

Six-spotted Tiger Beetle

Beetles are amazing creatures.  There are 12,000 different kinds of beetles in the United States alone and over 300,000 species in the world!





Bullfrog

Female Cloudless Sulphur Butterfly

Red Admiral Butterfly

Aptly-named Cottontail Rabbit

Eating salts and minerals in the roadbed 

Female Common Green Darner Dragonfly

One of the most common and widespread dragonflies in North America.

Male Common Green Darner

Fowler's Toad

Female Common Whitetail Dragonfly

Male Common Whitetail

 





Female Ebony Jewelwing Damselfly

Male Ebony Jewelwing

Female Twelve-spotted Skimmer Dragonfly

Goose Lake Prairie State Natural Area, IL: 5-30-17

Blue Flag Iris

Female Red-winged Blackbird

Male Red-winged Blackbird

Blue Indigo

First year Chipping Sparrow

Breeding adult Chipping Sparrow

Prairie Rose

Reptiles and Amphibians abound at Horicon Marsh NWR: 5-28-17

Snakes

Interestingly, in all the thousands of miles we've driven on this trip, on all the many miles we've hiked in the woods, and all the countless hours we've hiked through the forests, for 6 weeks and one day we had not seen a single snake!  Finally on Memorial Day we encountered 3 Eastern Ribbon Snakes on hikes in Horicon Marsh NWR.

Eastern Painted Turtle

One of the most beautiful of North American turtles.

Green Frog

American Toad

Northern Leopard Frog

Bullfrog

It jumped too quickly for me

So I resorted to Slo-Mo video!