As I watch it rain in Michigan
The flowers on the chives in the herb garden at my daughter’s home are a favourite with butterflies and dragonflies. I have had to spend time on the web to identify what they are. If I’ve got their names wrong please let me know.
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| Silver-Spotted Skipper |
This butterfly was reluctant to fully open its wings:
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| Silver-Spotted Skipper |
However this little beauty was more obliging:
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| Pearl Crescent |
It was an elegant dragonfly that really caught my eye:
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| Widow Skimmer |
The most prolific dragonfly was this vicious brute seen here on a post to the deck at the back of the house:
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| Chalk-Fronted Corporal |
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| Chalk-Fronted Corporal |
What looked like blue-flying matchsticks just stayed on the reeds. It was only when you look closer you can see they are stripped.
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| Double-Stripped Bluet |
Meanwhile the roses in the bed in the centre of the back paddock are ignored by butter- and dragonflies alike.
“I beg your pardon.
I never promised you a rose garden.”
You will have to make do with these pictures instead.
4 comments:
We too have a lot of dragon flies. The wetter the spring the more they seem to be. I like the snake weed in the water at the bottom, or snap weed, I don't remember for sure.
Lovely photos. We've got a lot of those dainty damsel flies here this year... and thanks a million. I'm now singing that song in my head... *along with the sunshine, there's got to be a...*
Lovely dragonfly pictures!
the widow skimmer is simply astonishing!!
:)~
HUGZ
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