Ripiphorus Beetle
In April of 2005, I was hiking through the Sonoran Desert just outside of Tucson. I stopped to look at some Desert Marigolds that were just starting to open. There was a black and yellow insect flying around the flowers.…
A Good Life
Miscellaneous Wanderings and Maunderings
A Good Life
Miscellaneous Wanderings and Maunderings
Insects
Scrub Oak Gall
On a sunny August day in 2001, I was hiking along a small creek in Arizona’s Mazatzal Mountains. I noticed some brightly colored spheres attached to some of the scrub oak near the creek. They had a glaring, artificial quality…
Honeybee
This is an old photo, from when we lived in Phoenix. I love the details in this picture. The dusting of yellow pollen on the Honeybee’s front legs, and the huge wads of pollen hanging off of her back legs.…
Head Full of Birds
This year, a family of Wrens built their nest inside our front-yard Elk skull. This is the first year that they’ve nested there. Other years, we’ve had Paper Wasps building nests inside of the skull. I don’t think there is…
Energy Conversion
Mosquitoes love me. They seem to come from miles around when I’m outside. Everyone else will be insect free, and I’ll have so many on mosquitoes on me that I look like I’m wearing a shaggy sweater made of insect legs.…
Caterpillar
A caterpillar eating a Brittlebush leaf. This is from a few years back, in Tucson. The torn wet edge of the leaf looks like a green hamburger that’s been ripped apart. You can see a couple of tiny simple eyes…