Week 31 in 2013 - Depth of Field

Week 31 in 2013 - Depth of Field, a photo by MichEric248 on Flickr.

Week 52 of 2012 - My Favourite Shot of 2012 - May 10

Polygonia Comma drinking from an Allium Aflatunense bloom. These butterflies have been in abundance in my yard for the last couple of years and make interesting photo subjects.

Week 32's bee in no motion

No motion.

Week 32 of 2012 - In Motion

Wings in motion.

Bug on a primrose

Hello, I'm a bug.

Week 36 of 2011 - Bokeh (the blur)

A busy bee.

Dragonfly 2011

Dragonfly spotted last week on afternoon hike at Stony Creek Metropark. SURE I should have been at work BUT everyone gets a lunch break...    right?

You may rememeber "Fire Breath" and "November dragonfly" from 2009. Doesn't look like a dragonfly was posted during the summer of 2010. Hmmm.....

26/52 of 2010: Nature

Bug on leaf. The theme 'Nature' marks week 26 of 52. That's the first half!

21/52 of 2010: Jump!

All of a sudden the hood here was overrun by these Red Admiral butterflies. As another area blogger put it "they were pretty skittish" and that made me think "HEY, these butterflies were Jumpy." So here is my pic for JUMP! because soon after the click of my shutter this bug jumped and flew away.

November dragonfly!

So I saw a butterfly in my yard the other day. A bit unusual for late fall in Michigan but it was an unseasonably warm and sunny November day.
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TODAY on the other hand I'm driving 50 mph down the road (and yes, the speed limit was 50 mph-ish) with the windows up and the sun roof closed and from out of nowhere this thing flew at my face! It finally landed on the dashboard and turned out to be a dragonfly.
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My first thought was to take a picture. My second thought was to watch the traffic. Before a third thought could happen it flew into my face again.

After it landed on the A-pillar (automotive lingo) for a rest I got a quick cell phone pic before letting it out the window into the chilly day. At least I think it went out the window into the chilly day!

November butterflies?

The middle of November here in Michigan doesn't usually bring to mind shorts and bare feet. I think even more confused was this butterfly I found (while outside in shorts and bare feet) on the side of the garage wondering where all the flowers were.

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Possibly the Eastern Comma butterfly.

Autumn Bug

The warm up in the weather is bringing the bugs back out. Here's one climbing on my house.

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and here's a vacant wolf spider web next to my electric meter. I wonder where he has gone?

Hmmm....

Stony Creek Trails

Temps are back up to almost the 60s - woohoo!

So today called for a hike.

Stony Creek Metropark has some ever so fun bike & hike trails - and there's a way in without charge - heehee.

Fall is in with a lot of yellow but not quite enough red yet.

And then I happened to run across this Banded Woolly Bear Caterpillar. Probably looking for a place to rest for the winter.

Update in tomato land

A friend from another land (Canada) stepped in and might have saved the furry chipmunk by telling me that I may be dealing with tomato hornworms! Gahhhhhh!

This is what I now

have to look for

and possibly

d-e-s-t-r-o-y!

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So much for the Critter Ridder I bought (organic furry deterrent).

Buzzed

During the last few months I've been doing an in depth study of the flying insect we know as the bee.

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After closely watching their daily habits in and around my backyard I have come to the conclusion:

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Fuzzy Butter

The butterfly bush in the yard finally produced a butterfly. I was starting to think it was faulty and should be returned. The fuzzy comes in to the picture here due to my camera accidentally being set to ISO 1600. Egad! 24 pictures later I discoved what had taken place. Oh well, I'll just call it all fuzzy.

Fire Breath

Here's a dragonfly that was very excited about the flowers on the arugula (that's an aromatic salad green also known as rocket, roquette, rugula and rucola, and is popular in Italian cuisine.)

Note: the Eat/Drink label applied to this post does not apply to the dragonfly but the arugula.

Bigger bugs at night

While kicking back on the porch up north (a Michigan term) I saw a big thing fluttering. Turned out to be a huge moth drinking nectar from some flowers. I got two shots of him and then the flash pretty much ticked him off and he flew off into the night.

Fire bug

Lampyridae

better know as a Firefly

What's he up to in the daytime anyway?

Come to find out Fireflies / Lightning Bugs are neither flies nor bugs, but beetles.

My Cranbrook Garden Walk

Today I met up with the RODP MeetUp group at the

Cranbrook Gardens here in Bloomfield Hills, MI.
I found a subject that fit into some of the themes of this summer:

fuzzy and buggy things.

I shall call it Fuzzy Bee Ball.