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Colorful Caterpillar
A few days ago, we found a number of colorful caterpillars on Gaura wildflowers in my Cass County wildflower garden. At first glance, they looked like Monarchs, but as I got closer, I discovered they were Clouded Crimson Moth caterpillars. Here are a couple of my favorite images from that first encounter: In case you’re […]
Giant Moth
After some early evening mowing last night, I pulled the tractor back to the walk-out basement and parked. As I walked into the basement I noticed this beautiful moth that was perched on the outside wall: Haven’t had time to try to identify it yet, but will when I get a few minutes. Photographic Equipment […]
A Gentle Giant
(This post originally published in October 2010) I conducted another outing to the prairie meadow yesterday morning, after the previous morning’s wonderful findings. Yesterday was again quite productive. I first did some wildflower photography, especially trying to make some pleasing blurs as the flowers gently swayed in the light breeze. But I also came upon […]
Clearly, A New Friend
On my last trip out to the Prairie Meadow to check out the wildflower/wildlife activity, I came upon this cute little guy, who I first thought was a bumble bee. But as I approached it, I could tell it was definitely not a bumbler … I had found my first of year (FOY) Clearwing Moth! […]
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