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Bumblin’ around

Colin Devroe — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:36:30 +0000

Faux eyes

Colin Devroe — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 20:51:13 +0000

Those probably keep the predators guessing.

Scarab beetle

Colin Devroe — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:11:20 +0000

This little guy was hanging out on our eggplant.

A pink flower and a bumble bee

Colin Devroe — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:07:16 +0000

While waiting for a ride this weekend I walked over to a small patch of wild flowers growing behind our garbage cans (there is beauty everywhere in this world, isn’t there?). I was attempting to get a half-decent shot of this bumble bee that was bouncing from flower to flower, sucking up the nectar while at the same time pollinating the entire patch by himself.

I suppose I managed to get a half-decent shot of him, but I really appreciate the details in the flower itself – the fact that it is just beginning to dry up on its edges, that its a color that I can not identify (I call it a pinkish purple), and that it grows behind garbage cans.

Mating Cabbage White Butterflies (Pieris rapae)

Colin Devroe — Wed, 20 May 2009 01:01:04 +0000

While walking with Eliza a few weeks ago we saw these two butterflies, which I’ve now found out to be Cabbage White Butterflies thanks to Cody R. Hough on BugGuide, mating. They were putting on quite a display of aerial acrobatics – I wish I had the equipment to take a video of how they were flying.

If you click on the first photo, allow the lightbox to load, and click next – the sequence is pretty cool.

Gypsies

Colin Devroe — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:50:04 +0000

Lots of them.

Dryocampa rubicunda

Colin Devroe — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:27:44 +0000

Perhaps better known as the Rosy Maple Moth, this moth was just outside our apartment building door.

My friend Chris just showed up for dinner and Game 4 of the NBA Finals and immediately he said there was a cool looking moth outside. Â I grabbed my camera and bolted for the door.

On my finger, for scale.

How do I find out the real names for these moths? Â It turns out there are an incredible amount of moth types. Â I personally love Bug Guide’s tools for figuring out what bug you found.

I think I’m going to keep it a long-term goal to continue to add photos of moths to my site. As I mentioned on Twitter yesterday the number of referrals to my site from Google’s Image search for moth are staggering ((At least to me.)). I’m looking forward to working at this new goal.

In case you’ve missed them in the past, check out the Tolype Velleda and cecropia moth.