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Monarch Butterfly
Monarch butterflies are known to travel thousands of miles each year! Like so many others, I have always found the monarch butterfly to be such a beautiful insect. Its lore is made all the more powerful by the amazing continental journey that the species takes each year. The eastern North American monarch population travels thousands […]
Northern Pearly-Eye
The northern pearly-eye butterfly waited for me on a rail. This northern pearly-eye butterfly was sitting on the railing of a bridge when Jill and I were on a hike at the Weldon Spring Conservation Area just north of St. Louis, Missouri. This park provides a great view of the Missouri River. We took the […]
Honeybee
When a sick bee visits a flower they may leave behind some infective parasitic spores This photo was taken during the early days of the COVID-19 quarantine when only essential trips like grocery shopping, or foraging for pollen and nectar at flowers, were permitted. Did you know that when bees forage at flowers they might […]
Alaskan Bumblebee
A week later I was on a flight to Alaska On my 30th birthday i slept in and groggily reached for my phone to reflex check the social world inside my facebook app. The first post I saw was from a former shipmate I worked with in Louisiana mentioning crew openings for some fishing boats […]
Bee in the Anza-Borrego Desert
We believe nature is most beautiful when it is in nature. This bee is enjoying a California barrel cactus flower. This is a beautiful desert flower to encounter in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, located in southern California, not far from Joshua Tree. This is a beautiful environment, especially if you time it for when […]
Dominican Moth
This photo is from the Samana region of the Dominican Republic This photo is from the Samana region in the Dominican Republic. Last year, a friend and I dug holes for septic systems up in the remote mountainous areas in the northeastern part of the country. These septic systems help reduce disease spread. Donate One […]
Mangrove Sunrise
I took more than 50 photos here as the sun was coming up This photo was taken on a multi day kayak trip in the Florida Keys. I was paddling past this small red mangrove tree at sunrise. I probably took 50 photos here as the sun was coming up. Of those photos, this is […]
Vernon Vermont Sunset
These black gum trees are more than 400 years old! I took this photo in J. Maynard Miller Town Forest, located in southern Vermont. On this day I was searching for black gum trees. These trees are common south of the Mason Dixon line, but not common all the way up in Vermont. Some of […]
Moon Jelly
Moon Jelly – IUCN Conservation Status: Insufficient Data Notice the school of juvenile fish in the mantle of the moon jelly This month our theme is “light”. What you are looking at is a moon jellyfish, with the sun in the background. These jellyfish are common throughout the Caribbean and South Florida. If you look […]