Photos Sept 19

 

Gray Hairstreak

 

Brown eyed Susan's are almost gone but I like how the center of each flower opens up with it's on little flower 



 

 Showy partridge pea

 

 

Aster



 

Skipper

 



I chased this guy halfway across a field! I didn't know what I was chasing. Until this point all I knew was that it was something that flew. I was thinking katydid but got grasshopper.

 



Chickweed Geometer

This colorful, butterfly-like moth flies during the day. It’s called a geometer (“earth measurer”) because the larvae are “inchworms” that loop their bodies with each “step” they take.

 



 

Old schoolhouse

 

 

 This guy's name is what he looks like. He's a yellow antenna black spider wasp.

Spider wasps use a spider as a host for feeding their larvae. They paralyse the spider with a sting and drag it to the nest. A single egg is laid on the abdomen of the spider and the nest is sealed. When the egg hatches, the larva feeds on the spider. Ewww!

 



Nuts!