Summer Morning Rainstorm
Northeast of Olpe, Kansas – Scorching temperatures and cloudless skies had us all hoping for relief. This morning showers moved in.
First Studies – Scheve Plot
Sun Lines
Setting Sun in the Tallgrass
Lyon County, Kansas
Candy Apple Green on Purple
He’s a little flying hot rod.
Red Ant
Morris County, Kansas – Although he looks pretty big in the photo in real life he was only about 3/8 inch in length.
Bee on Chicory
Found the the side of “old old highway 50” east of Emporia, Kansas – always a good place for wildflowers.
Sweat Bee on Moth Mullen
Found along the edges of “old old highway 50” east of Emporia, Kansas
Starry Campion
Found in shaded areas along a woodland road in Greenwood County, north of Madison, Kansas
Crab Spider on Butterfly Milkweed
Greenwood County, along a country road.
Fiery Searcher Beetle
Found along a woodsy road in Greenwood County, Kansas
Blue Verbena
Roadside ditch, Greenwood County, Kansas
Bees Have Very Long Tongues
It looks a little like a vacuum cleaner extension to me.
Wolf in the Woods
As I’m poking around trees and shrubs searching for creatures I notice it in the shadowed crook of the tree. This is the largest wolf spider I’ve ever encountered, hiding among the shadows beside this Flint Hills Wildlife Refuge trail. I guesstimate his…
