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Tiny monarchs earlier, on wild eastern swamp milkweed / tiny monarch just now, on garden butterfly weed. Thumb for scale.

🌱🌿 #nativeplants
🐛🦋 #insects #invertebrates #bugsky
🦀⛵ #Maryland #ecoregion65

Please excuse the terrible focus on this video of a katydid 🦗🎶🌿

#invertebrates #insects #bugsky

I don't think this is a newly emerged monarch bc I haven't seen a chrysalis, or a caterpillar with the right timing... but maybe it was just very sneaky?? The butterfly was not in a hurry to fly away at all. 🦋 #insects #invertebrates #bugsky

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A tiny guy 🥺🦋🌿

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Bees and wasps on sunflowers, oxeyes, and coneflowers

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🐝 #insects #invertebrates #bugsky
🦀⛵ #Maryland
🌎 #ecoregion65

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I saw several little camouflaged caterpillars, presumably wavy lined emerald moths. There were four on the hoary mountain mint alone.

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🐛 #insects #invertebrates #bugsky
🦀⛵ #Maryland
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Motley assortment of bugs

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🐞 #insects #invertebrates #bugsky
🦀⛵ #Maryland
🌎 #ecoregion65

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Okay first of all, fantastic ambush bug day. This isn't even all of them.

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🐞 #insects #invertebrates #bugsky
🦀⛵ #Maryland
🌎 #ecoregion65

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Extra smol (maybe an inch long) early instar monarch, with lacewing larva friend.

🐛🌿🌱 #bugsky #invertebrates #nativeplants

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Hey y'all wanna see a really wild looking caterpillar 😮 it's a white-marked tussock moth.

🐛🌿 #invertebrates #bugsky

Found two more creatures and a different life stage of one of the initial ones taking a more thorough look around the patch. 🌿🐞 #invertebrates #bugsky

Got a veritable I Spy situation going on this morning at the swamp milkweed 🕵️

What do you see?

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🐞🕷️ #invertebrates #insects #spiders #bugsky
🦀⛵ #Maryland
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A moment's rest in some form of chase

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🦋 #butterflies #pollinators #invertebrates #bugsky
🦀⛵ #Maryland
🌎 #ecoregion65

New yard apex predator just dropped

🌿 #invertebrates #bugsky

Teeny baby adversary spotted

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This beetle in the milkweed flowers very much had the aspect of Scrooge McDuck swimming and diving in his pile of gold coins.

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🪲 #bugsky #inverts
🦀⛵ #Maryland
🌎 #ecoregion65

Tapping the sign a bit 🌱🌿 #nativeplants #insects #bugsky
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He keeps getting better at camouflage

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#bugsky #insects #invertebrates

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Travelling companion 🪲
#photography #journal #nature #bugsky #EastCoastKin

hey buddy. buddy what are you doing in the middle of the driveway

#bugsky #insects #invertebrates #pollinators

Look who I found. Didn't even know they were in the picture til I looked at it 💚

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#insects #invertebrates #bugsky

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#PollinatorWeek #Stunday
#bugSky, #Butterfly: #AnthocharisCardamines
#FlowersOfBluesky, #bloomScrolling: #CardaminePratensis
Fascinating #physics: #reflections
#MacroMonday #naturephotography #thelittlethings #ECK
#StrongerTogether due to #ALText (this #inclusion thing :)

Hi fam,
have a fulfilling day!
#PollinatorWeek #Stunday
'Hummeln' / #Bumblebees #FotoVorschlag
#cuckooBumblebee #ColorADay #PinkMon #BugSky #Bees #FlowersOfBluesky, #bloomScrolling: #thistle, #meadowknapweed
#MacroMonday #naturephotography #thelittlethings #ECK
#StrongerTogether due to #ALText:)

The first colored piece of my stained glass moth project! The very famous death's-head hawkmoth, Acherontia atropos.

Prints: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/aubrietarose/deaths-head-hawkmoth-moth-stained-glass/

Timelapse and more (free, but support is welcome!): https://www.patreon.com/aubrietarose/posts/deaths-head-and-161265681

#moth #bugSky #inverteFest #teamMoth #hawkMoth #bugArt

Huh, über Spinnenmangel auf dem Balkon werde ich dieses Jahr wohl nicht klagen #bugsky

It's #ButterflyWeek, and even with snow still on the ground this week, we still saw a Compton Tortoiseshell, our first butterfly of 2026 in #AlgonquinPark. #Nature #BugSky #Butterflies #Ontario #Canada 🍁

Ganz, ganz wichtiger Hinweis zum Frühlingsstart. Insbesondere auch auf dem Balkon und in der Stadt: Selbst wenns 'unschön' aussieht, vertrocknete Stauden und krautige Stängel noch stehen lassen, die Insekten brauchen die. #urbangardening #bugsky 🌱

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