OkayI think this is the last group of true insects for this trip. I have some spider shots to do soon, but as we all know, spiders aren't insects.
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| Ruddy Daggerwing Butterfly (052 - 2012) |
This is a Ruddy Daggerwing. And it was ruddy difficult to Google! This is probably due to the fact that when you Google "orange butterfly with black lines" you get Monarchs up the ying-yang. It's not helped by the fact that this particular species has a pretty small habitat so there just aren't a lot of pictures of them or articles about them out there compared to the Monarch or Red Admiral or a Sulphur, which are everywhere and much easier to find on the net. South Florida and the Florida Keys seem to be about their whole range. So, totally one I wouldn't be able to get up here in Chicago!
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| Paper Wasp (053 - 2012) |
I'm still waiting for my "That can puncture you; you should FLEE" response to return. Instead, when I saw this, I was all, "Oh look! A *brown* wasp!" We have yellow-jackets-o-plenty up here, but this was new. It's one of the 22 types of Paper Wasps we have in the US. Anyone care to tell me which wasp I witnessed? :)
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| Female Yellow Dasher |
Remember the blue dragonfly in the last post? Here's his girlfriend. Well, I don't know if it was *his* girlfriend, but this is the female of that species. I called attention to the yellow spot on the male Blue Dasher's abdomen... the female takes that to the extreme. She's pretty much all yellow. And as you can see, she was pretty mellow. :)
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