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| Milkweed beetles doing their thing on a milkweed plant. |
| Water Striders and the effect they have on the water surface. |
| These Yellow Jacket Wasps are disturbed by pounding on a rock close to their underground nest almost two minutes into this video, They stay disturbed for 45 minutes--until the tripod and camera which were close to the nest are removed. This tripod and camera did not bother the wasps until the ground vibrations caused by the pounding. |
| Pennsylvania Leather-wing Beetles on milkweed doing their thing. |
| Dragonflies over a pond. |
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Beetle--Butterfly--Bumblebee
Northern Corn Rootworm Beetle eating pollen from thistle. Notice that the Painted Lady Butterfly collects nectar instead. The butterfly warns off the bumblebee from landing on the same bloom. |
| Some parasites and predators find caterpillars from the smell of their frass. This inchworm's defense is to drop the "droppings" off the plant. Notice the size and coloration of the caterpillar closely matches the green leaves under the thistle bloom. A "regular" caterpillar probably could not navigate this bloom. This inchworm belongs to the family Eupithecia and is probably the Common Pug (miserulata). |
| Swamp Milkweed Leaf Beetle. The larva ate in the early morning and returned to the ground before the day got hot. |
| Milkweed Bug and Spider. See the surprising outcome of this encounter. |
| Praying Mantis and Grasshopper. The grasshopper got caught and eaten. |
| Newly hatched praying mantises emerge. |
| Fly mating dance and mating on leaf. |
| Silver Spotted Skipper butterfly at blossoms. |
| Yellow Jacket wasp and ant compete for the same resource. |
| 17 Year Cicada. This is the trailer for the 54-minute video of the climax of the life of the 17-year cicada, from the time the mature larvae ascend tree trunks, through egg laying for the next generation. |
| Inchworm munches on blossoms. |
| Zebra Long-wing butterfly in a conservatory. |