Spiders and scenery

Garden Bounty

Finally a little bit of produce for all of our efforts in the city.

Fireflies

Not a great photo but taken the first weekend we saw them. It was amazing. A goal is to learn how to photograph them better in the coming years.

Pollinators

I'm amazed at the diversity our little habitat creates for insects of all kinds. Here are a few shots of some of my favorites that we've seen this summer. We easily have more than a dozen butterfly and moth species in our prairies, had a huge hatching of fireflies in June, and have all kinds of beautiful bees and moths, like the ones below.

Giant Swallotail feeding on our beebalm

Hummingbird clearwing moth (my favorite!) feeding on bee balm 

Bumblebee on our purple coneflower