One of the traditional ways of collecting insects is to beat or shake a plant, collecting all the things that fall down to a collection tray or sheet below. I’ve never done that, but I have been looking hard at the Evening Primroses recently. Oenothera are busy right now! Most of that to the left…

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Worm. The American Robins were very upset. About 50 minutes later, she caught a dragonfly, a Swamp Darner (I think), our biggest regularly occurring species. This is a daughter of the nest. One of her two recently-seen brothers.

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Eastern Cottontail and frenemies…

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Monarch butterfly egg. Unlike the Question Mark eggs I serendipitously photographed last week, these are relatively easy to get close to. (Well, this egg-hunting does require being on your hands and knees in the broiling sun….) Here’s just the shell of another.

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Buffalo Treehopper/Sticocephala bisonia This one may be the same or a similar species.

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Or, who’s got the chicken thigh?

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