This is the third in a series of posts from recent trips to the prairie meadow near where I live. If you missed the first 2 posts, you can visit them by clicking on the following links:
In this post, I am highlighting some more meadow critters I found and was able to make some macro images of. First, here’s a few butterflies I found in the meadow:
Large Wood Nymph Butterfly (Cercyonis pegala)
Pearly Crescentspot Butterfly (Phyciodes tharos)
Buckeye Butterfly (Junonia coenia)
Black Swallowtail Butterfly (Papilio spp.)
And then I came upon a Cicada that was resting on the stem of a meadow plant:
And just beyond the Cicada, I found a Northern Spring Peeper (Hyla crucifer crucifer) that was clinging to a leaf of a meadow plant:
In the next post in this series, I will highlight a couple of spiders busy in the meadow.