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The broken shoulder stripes, forming exclamation points, are the key to identify this small damselfly. Ischnura posita, Coenagrionidae. Central IL, Summer 2013.
BlackWater River Escambia County Florida. These insects were everywhere at the River Bridge boat ramp near Pace.
They are from 1 1/2 to 2 inches long.
The Common Checkered Skipper ranges in most of the temperate United States south to the Gulf Coast, west Texas, southeast Arizona, southern California, and the mountains of northern Mexico. Colonizes as far north as central Alberta and southern Ontario, Canada, and southern New England. It cannot survive very cold winters and may not be a permanent resident north of the 40th parallel.
Adult skippers nectar from white-flowered composites including shepherd's needles, fleabane, and asters; also red clover, knapweed, beggar's ticks, and many others.
Habitat is open, sunny places with low vegetation and some bare soil including prairies, meadows, fields, roadsides, landfills, yards, gardens, pastures, openings and trails in woods.
Flight season is February - October in the Deep South, March - September in the north.
ISO400, aperture f/11, exposure .002 seconds (1/500) focal length 300mm
A collection of sketches and drawings of insects to feed into and inspire a year 12 textiles project.
There aren't many insects to be found outside at this time, but these stay happily in our house. Painted stones for our daily challenge on the insect world.
Quite a few of these bees, they are very dark in colour and have this orange head but on closer inspection i think it could be pollen after all
Very green! It was rather a dull day, which slowed this sawfly down, but made it difficult to shoot the photo at a fast enough shutter speed to avoid blurring. I include the photo here, because this sawfly is such an extraordinary combination of lurid green and yellow/green colours.