There were lots of cool bugs (and unfortunately some not so cool ones-ugh, chiggers!) on our vacation this year.
This luna moth was in the eaves of the camp office building, evidently hiding from the nuclear powered black flies that were at the campground. Gorgeous, though!
I've always wanted to see ant lion nests in the wild, and the forest floor in the campground was littered with them! Antlions are totally cool-think sarlaac monster from Return of the Jedi, but instead of henchmen falling to their doom it's ants.
This is a little hard to see, but if you look close at the tips of all the stalks of the bushes there are dragonflies hanging out on them-they were really pretty with gold spots all along their abdomens. It was a mix of males and females, though, so there was a lot of jockeying for the "good" twings to impress the ladies :)
This luna moth was in the eaves of the camp office building, evidently hiding from the nuclear powered black flies that were at the campground. Gorgeous, though!
I've always wanted to see ant lion nests in the wild, and the forest floor in the campground was littered with them! Antlions are totally cool-think sarlaac monster from Return of the Jedi, but instead of henchmen falling to their doom it's ants.
This is a little hard to see, but if you look close at the tips of all the stalks of the bushes there are dragonflies hanging out on them-they were really pretty with gold spots all along their abdomens. It was a mix of males and females, though, so there was a lot of jockeying for the "good" twings to impress the ladies :)
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