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74/100 flowers with creatures

Dark form female. The blue was glistening so much I looked to take a photo that showed it at its best.

I've gotten way behind on posting insect photos because of so much focus on the ospreys (which still hadn't fledged as of last night).

The first week of August was far and away the most photos I have taken in any week of my life, and included six visits in six days to the osprey nest, at a spot that is also pretty good for insects. Not counting a couple hundred shots I took on request, I shot about 7300 photos the week of July 31 to August 6.

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Day 137/365

Male swallowtail puddling, or seeking moisture and salt from wet ground.

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Day 236/365

I have made multiple trips to this stand of ironweed to see if the swallowtails had found it yet, since one day in late summer last year it was really swarming with them, but my cameras were new to me and I wasn't satisfied with how many photos I had to shoot to get a few modestly good ones. Today I found four swallowtails (two tigers, one pipevine, and a second dark one that was too far away to identify), so I'll be checking back in the next day or two.

Tags:   365: the 2022 edition 365:2022 Day 236/365 24-Aug-22 pipevine swallowtail ironweed swallowtail butterfly

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