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Cool spring mornings often offer up somewhat sleepy butterflies and dragonflies, making them the perfect mornings for a walk in the yard. Treebeard and I enjoyed our breakfast and then took a ramble through the sunny parts of our property. We didn't venture into the mature woods, we just ambled along the yard and old field sections. I thought you might enjoy seeing what we saw.
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Treebeard tells me that this very young grasshopper that we saw while walking in the yard this afternoon is a Mischievous Bird Grasshopper, Schistocerca damnifica.I'll go with that.Critters have been very active the past couple of d... Read Post

A few dragonflies to add to the butterflies posted earlier... Blue Dasher - male Blue Dasher - female Common Whitetail - female Common Whitetail - male Eastern Pondhawk - female Spangled Skimmer - male Read Post

Hiding in plain site down in the corner of the yard this morning. I walked right past without seeing it. Treebeard saw it and took this picture. Freshly shed exoskeleton of a blue dasher dragonfly nymph. A nest with eggs in a dark c... Read Post