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UFO’s
Today’s post features a couple of UFO’s (Unidentified Fuzzy Objects … well, at least one is) that I found yesterday while working in the church butterfly garden, here at the Lake of the Ozarks, MO. By the way, I counted 21 Monarch butterfly caterpillars busy chomping away on the milkweed … wonder how many I […]
Posted in 2021, Blog, Butterfly Photography, Flower, Insect Photography, Nature Photography, Wildflowers
Tags: caterpillar
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Fun Friday: Changes in My Nursery
As I mentioned in a post last week, I have collected several Black Swallowtail butterfly eggs and caterpillars. They are housed in a mesh, indoors “nursery” in my rural Missouri home. I had been waiting for the caterpillar to begin making it’s chrysalis. Well, I went to bed on Tuesday night and the caterpillar was […]
Posted in 2018, Blog, Butterfly Photography, focus stacking, Fun Friday post, Insect Photography, Macro Photography, Nature Photography
Tags: 2018, behavior, black swallowtail, Blog, butterfly, Cass County, caterpillar, chrysalis, fall, insect, macro photography, Missouri, nature, nature photography, photography
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Fun Friday: No Longer an “Empty Nester”
About a week ago, as I was walking past my rural Missouri butterfly garden, I noticed a Black Swallowtail that was busy laying eggs on a parsley plant (host plant for these beautiful butterflies). Yesterday, I closely inspected the plant to see if I could find the eggs … voila, I found about a dozen […]
Posted in 2018, Butterfly Photography, focus stacking, Fun Friday post, Insect Photography, Macro Photography, Nature Photography
Tags: 2018, behavior, black swallowtail, Blog, butterfly eggs, Cass County, caterpillar, fall, insect, macro photography, Missouri, nature, nature photography, photography
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A Cat in My Garden
Over the past few days, I’ve been working in and around my rural Missouri butterfly garden. As I weeded, I looked over and discovered this Swallowtail butterfly caterpillar that was busy munching on some parsley that I planted a few weeks ago: I have planted several herbs in my butterfly garden. Parsley is one of […]
A Life Critter
A few days ago, while photographing asters in my wildflower garden, I was focused in tightly on an aster bud when I noticed a nearby aster plant branch moving. I took a minute to look over the area and found a new, “life” caterpillar on the aster plant. After a few days of working at […]
Mystery Solved!
Yesterday I spent the day at a wonderful Master Gardener program in Nevada, Missouri. A group of 4 of us left Cass County and traveled to Nevada for the all day program. The morning session was all about butterfly gardening, including information on our native butterflies and moths, butterfly needs and how to establish a […]
Posted in 2014, Blog, Butterfly Photography, Insect Photography, Macro Photography, Nature Photography
Tags: 2014, behavior, Blog, Cass County, caterpillar, cute, Dorsett Hill Prairie, insect, macro photography, meadow, Missouri, nature, nature photography, photography, prairie, summer
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Colorful Caterpillar
I just returned home last night, from a 10-day trip to Minnesota. A lot of interesting experiences, as well as visiting with relatives on my wife’s side. One of the areas I photographed was the North Shore area, along Lake Superior. At Grand Marais, I stopped to photograph the lighthouse in the harbor. While walking […]
Posted in 2013, Blog, Insect Photography, Macro Photography, Nature Photography, Travel Photography
Tags: 2013, Blog, caterpillar, cute, fall, insect, macro photography, Minnesota, nature, nature photography, North Shore, photography, travel
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Fun Friday: The Hairy-leaved Prairie Plant”
From yesterday’s prairie outing, I found this “hairy-leaved” prairie plant: You’ve probably already realized that’s not what this is … it is a white caterpillar that is feeding on the underside of a prairie plant. Unfortunately, it was very low to the ground, so I could not get a good shot of the caterpillar. […]
Posted in 2013, Blog, Butterfly Photography, Macro Photography, Nature Photography
Tags: 2013, Blog, Cass County, caterpillar, macro photography, Missouri, nature, nature photography, photography, spring
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Nature’s Recycling (Re-post)
(This post originally published in September, 2010) As I meandered around the Prairie Meadow the other day, I came across this Monarch Butterfly caterpillar (Danaus plexippus) feeding on a Common Milkweed plant. As I moved in close and watched it, it was literally having a feeding frenzy on a milkweed leaf. As I watched it, […]
Posted in 2010, 2013, Blog, Butterfly Photography, Nature Photography, Wildflowers
Tags: 2010, 2013, behavior, Blog, butterfly, butterfly photography, Cass County, caterpillar, macro photography, meadow, milkweed, Missouri, Monarch, nature, nature photography, photography, prairie, summer, wildflower
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And Yet Some More Prairie Images (Re-post)
(This post originally published in August, 2010) Here are a few more images made in the Prairie Meadow the other day. This first image is a Buckeye Butterfly (Junonia coenia) that let me get extremely close to it: A short distance later, I ran upon one of the many Large Wood Nymph Butterflies (Cercyonis […]
Posted in 2010, 2012, Blog, Landscape Photography, Macro Photography, Nature Photography, Wildflowers
Tags: 2010, 2012, behavior, Blog, butterfly, Cass County, caterpillar, cute, dew, insect, landscape, macro photography, meadow, Missouri, nature, nature photography, photography, prairie, summer, water droplets, wildflower
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