Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning

This week, we visited Green Swamp Nature Preserve - there are several entrances to east and west tracts - so we started with the McNeil tract - we'll try others over the next several weeks.

Nephila clavipes - Golden Silk Spider (or Banana Spider)

Colorful grasshopper

Face of a colorful grasshopper

Face of a colorful grasshopper

Unknown female spider - first time seeing this

Sac Spider - Cheiracanthium inclusum

A recently emerged insect, possibly a skipper, first encounter of this

Black eyed susan - and interesting beetle-like insect

Black eyed susan - and interesting beetle-like insect

Mecaphesa celer

Mecaphesa celer another view

I think this is a juvenile Argiope .sp with an elliptical sawtooth stabilimenta

Ebony jewel-winged damselfly

Dragonfly

Dragonfly

Mecaphesa celer

Mecaphesa celer

Unknown spider - hiding under a cabbage palm

C. Frank Starmer

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