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Abigail Mantidude
Bad phone photo, but Abby is certainly cute! Alex brought her to me, and since it's getting cold...
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Uploaded on Nov 2, 2011
I disapprove!
Mantises often disapprove, and Chinese mantises like this lovely lady are particularly good at it,...
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Uploaded on Aug 28, 2011
Oh, hi!
Mantis antennae crack me up; the way they just sort of "sproing!" out of the insect's head gives the mantis a permanently surprised look.
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Uploaded on Aug 28, 2011
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
A lovely lady. Most of the Tigers I've seen in my garden this summer have been girls. Too bad I...
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Uploaded on Aug 28, 2011
I've got my straw
A very friendly female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly. She was in the garden for ages; by the...
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Uploaded on Aug 28, 2011
She'll never see me!
Nope, no big black and yellow butterfly here behind the Buddelia flowers!
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Uploaded on Aug 28, 2011
Curly Girl
This Monarch girl looks as if she had some trouble getting her wings in order after she eclosed....
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Uploaded on Aug 28, 2011
Black form female
A pretty black form female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail. This one has her tiger stripes quite easily...
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Uploaded on Aug 28, 2011
Black form female
Not a great shot because she wouldn't let me close, but I think the black form female Eastern Tiger...
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Uploaded on Aug 28, 2011
Male Eastern Tiger
Most of my Tigers this summer have been lovely ladies, but this magnificent specimen...
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Uploaded on Aug 28, 2011
Playing peekaboo
Great Black wasps are pretty big, but quite docile. This one played peekaboo with me amongst some honeyvine leaves.
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Uploaded on Aug 28, 2011
OM NOM NOM!
When I put in the milkweed bed last spring, I expected I'd find a Monarch cat or two. I...
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Uploaded on Aug 25, 2011
Fat-erpillar
Just wanted my hand in this for scale. This big, plump guy will go to chrysalis any time now, I think.
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Uploaded on Aug 25, 2011
Johnnie
My original intent had been to pick milkweed and raise the Monarch 'pillars in a terrarium on the...
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Uploaded on Aug 17, 2011
Monarch Baby-pillar
Brand new hatchlings don't really have visible stripes (they're kind of beige with little black...
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Uploaded on Aug 17, 2011
Monarch egg
Actually, there are lots of Monarch eggs! Many won't make it to be even small caterpillars, let...
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Uploaded on Aug 17, 2011
Depositing eggs
I invested a lot of time and effort and a not inconsiderable sum of money for good seeds to carve a...
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Uploaded on Aug 17, 2011
Wanted and Unwanted
Beautiful female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail...definitely wanted! Nasty little Japanese beetle sharing the zinnia with her...definitely unwanted.
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Uploaded on Aug 7, 2011
