2022 Photo Contest – Fauna with Flora Category Entries


Title: Ebony Jewelwing on Tape Grass
Photographer: Daniel Cruikshanks
Location: Kalamazoo Nature Center (Kalamazoo, MI)
Chapter: Kalamazoo Area

Title: Daddy Long Leg Party
Photographer: Kelle Frymire
Location: My yard
Chapter: Illinois Prairie

Title: Feeding time
Photographer: Jamie Palmer
Location: Sturgeon Bay, WI.
Chapter: Door Peninsula

Title: Hanging Out with My Best Buds
Photographer: Geri Fox
Location: Oak Park, Illinois
Chapter: West Cook

Title: Peeper Chillin’ Amongst the Wild Bergamot
Photographer: Diane O’Connell
Location: In my native flower garden in my backyard
Chapter: Gibson Woods

Title: Hummingbird Hang Time
Photographer: Anna Miller
Location: St. Louis City backyard
Chapter: St. Louis

Title: Lilies and dragonflies oh my!
Photographer: Barbara Zvirzdinis
Location: My backyard
Chapter: River City-Grand Rapids Area

Title: Fawn in Flowers
Photographer: Mary Jo Adams
Location: Indian Boundary Park, Chicago
Chapter: Illinois Prairie

Title: Ptarmigans Eat Wildflowers
Photographer: Neal Bringe
Location: Mount Parnassus, Colorado
Chapter: Front Range

Title: On the Hunt
Photographer: Jim Skolmoski
Location: my backyard - central Illinois
Chapter: Illinois Prairie

Title: Soldier On
Photographer: Stephanie Tsoris
Location: My yard
Chapter: Kettle Moraine

Title: Halloween Pennant
Photographer: Renee Benage
Location: August A. Busch Memorial Conservation Area, Defiance, Missouri
Chapter: St. Louis

Title: Gold Finch and Cup Plant, Chicago Backyard
Photographer: Christopher Baran
Location: My backyard
Chapter: West Cook

Title: Sedge Seat for a Spider
Photographer: Laurie Martin
Location: home yard, 11914 S. 93rd Avenue, Palos Park, IL
Chapter: West Cook

Title: Dickcissel
Photographer: Renee Benage
Location: Columbia Bottom Conservation Area, St. Louis County, Missouri
Chapter: St. Louis

Title: Get your own sunflower seeds son
Photographer: KEN FAULKNER
Location: Our backyard
Chapter: Lake-To-Prairie

Title: Dragon
Photographer: Kathy Ryan
Location: My front yard (address anove)
Chapter: Front Range

Title: Damselfly Perched
Photographer: Steven Schmidt
Location: Dixie Briggs Fromm Conservation Area, Algonquin, IL
Chapter: Partner At Large

Title: Buggy eyes in my backyard
Photographer: Ginny Halloran
Location: Backyard
Chapter: Twin Cities

Title: DragonFly!
Photographer: Rosanne Plante
Location: By my koi pond.
Chapter: Loess Hills

Title: Katydid Peering from Black Eyed Susan
Photographer: Diana M Kuklinski
Location: Bemidji, MN (my back yard)
Chapter: Arrowhead

Title: Snatched
Photographer: Mandy Duffey
Location: Iowa City, IA-the prairie garden I planted for my mother
Chapter: Cedar Rapids-Iowa City Area (Seedling)

Title: Snatched
Photographer: Mandy Duffey
Location: Iowa City, IA-the prairie garden I planted for my mother
Chapter: Cedar Rapids-Iowa City Area (Seedling)

Title: Mantid in Grass
Photographer: Molly Williams
Location: Kalamazoo, Michigan
Chapter: Kalamazoo Area

Title: Curious Frog
Photographer: Diane Walczak
Location: Pond on my property
Chapter: Western Pennsylvania Area

Title: Banded Hairstreak on Butterfly weed
Photographer: Diane Walczak
Location: Field on my farm
Chapter: Western Pennsylvania Area

Title: Starship Tiger Swallowtail Docks at Space Station Buttonbush
Photographer: Ken Faulkner
Location: In our backyard
Chapter: Lake-To-Prairie

Title: D-Leaon-Goldfinch-2021.jpg
Photographer: Don Leaon
Location: My pollinator garden in St. Cloud, Minnesota
Chapter: St. Cloud

Title: Golden seal plant with fruit- Spring peeper hiding under the fruit
Photographer: Kathy Bildner
Location: Shaw Nature Reserve, Gray Summit Missouri
Chapter: St. Louis

Title: Common Whitetail Dragonfly on Leadplant at Home
Photographer: Ed Buchs
Location: My home in Genoa City, Wisconsin
Chapter: Kettle Moraine

Title: painted lady
Photographer: Sara Price
Location: My pollinator garden with wild native plants
Chapter: Loess Hills

Title: red spotted admiral on echinacea
Photographer: sara price
Location: My pollinator garden with wild native plants
Chapter: Loess Hills

Title: Monarch caterpillar on A. syriaca
Photographer: Cecilia Devlin
Location: 40 degree, 4 minutes, 17.26 seconds N longitude and 83 degree, 6 minutes, 50.15 seconds W latitude
Chapter: Columbus

Title: Widow Skimmer dragonfly
Photographer: Cecilia Devlin
Location: my backyard which is within Columbus Ohio city boundaries near the Scioto river
Chapter: Columbus

Title: Whirlabout on Stokesia
Photographer: Wendy Rihner
Location: Abita Creek Flatwoods Preserve
Chapter: Partner At Large

Title: Little Predator
Photographer: Courtney Denning
Location: Troy, Ohio
Chapter: Dayton Area

Title: Bloodshot on Bloodroot
Photographer: Courtney Denning
Location: Troy, Ohio
Chapter: Dayton Area

Title: Joann -Scheetz-lunch among the flowers-2022.jpeg
Photographer: Joann Scheetz
Location: In my pollinator garden bed in South Bend
Chapter: South Bend

Title: Life Cycle
Photographer: Noelle Snow
Location: My garden
Chapter: Lake-To-Prairie

Title: Strike a Pose
Photographer: Bette Kauffman
Location: Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge
Chapter: Western Gulf Plain

Title: Dawn on the Prairie
Photographer: Dan Deneen
Location: 2219 W Oakland Ave
Chapter: Illinois Prairie

Title: Laying in Wait
Photographer: Katherine Moore
Location: My yard - Madison, WI
Chapter: Madison

Title: Goldfinch on Thistle
Photographer: Karen Louis
Location: On a bike trail in Belleville, IL
Chapter: St. Louis

Title: Hummingbird with Beebalm
Photographer: Kristi Shepler
Location: In the new garden we are establishing in our front yard in Pattersonville, NY.
Chapter: Capital Region

Title: ceil-grunert-finch-2022-jpg
Photographer: Cecile Grunert
Location: our backyard in Menomonee Falls
Chapter: Menomonee River Area

Title: Gray Treefrog on Swamp Milkweed
Photographer: Kari Carter
Location: My backyard
Chapter: Dayton Area

Title: Spider on Golden Alexander
Photographer: Dale Gebhardt
Location: Front yard in Ferguson, MO
Chapter: St. Louis

Title: Great Horned Owl in Hackberry
Photographer: Lizabeth Likins
Location: Home garden, Bowling Green, KY
Chapter: SoKY

Title: Common Milkweed With Wasp Mantisfly
Photographer: Valerie Lindeman
Location: Near Lansing MI
Chapter: River City-Grand Rapids Area

Title: BiColored Striped Sweat Bee
Photographer: Steve Berry
Location: My yard
Chapter: St. Charles Area

Title: "Crab Spider Catch"
Photographer: Cheryl Lloyd
Location: In my native garden.
Chapter: Habitat Gardening in Central New York

Title: Purple Prairie Clover with Bee
Photographer: Patty Berry
Location: My yard
Chapter: St. Charles Area

Title: Jagged Ambush Bug waiting for breakfast in the Rudbeckia
Photographer: Cathy Streett
Location: In my backyard habitat
Chapter: West Cook

Title: Eastern Amberwing in the shoreline plantings at Birchwood Park Darien, IL
Photographer: Cathy Streett
Location: Birchwood Park - Darien, IL
Chapter: West Cook

Title: Beauty in a Foggy City
Photographer: Abigail Rexer
Location: Lurie Garden, Millennium Park, Chicago, IL
Chapter: Middle Tennessee

Title: Wild Paradise in a Foggy City
Photographer: Abigail Rexer
Location: Lurie Garden, Millennium Park, Chicago, IL
Chapter: Middle Tennessee

Title: Balancing Act
Photographer: Pam Morgan
Location: Springdale, Arkansas
Chapter: Ozark

Title: Standing guard
Photographer: Cheryl Sims
Location: My home garden in Columbus Ohio
Chapter: Columbus

Title: Butterfly and Blazing Star
Photographer: Peggy Pittenger
Location: My front garden
Chapter: St. Louis

Title: Kat-Calhoun-photo-Praying-Mantis
Photographer: Kat Calhoun
Location: Community garden "Mariposas del Mundo" 8/30/22
Chapter: Mountain Laurel

Title: Monarch Caterpillar in the Meadow
Photographer: Mark Dilley
Location: Highlands Park wetlands in Westerville, Ohio
Chapter: Columbus

Title: Mayfly on Halberd-leaved Rosemallow
Photographer: Mark Dilley
Location: Mitigation wetland in west Columbus adjacent to Scioto River
Chapter: Columbus

Title: Prairie Dog Snacking on Grass in Rocky Mountain National Park
Photographer: Michelle Morris
Location: Moraine Park Campground in Rocky Mountain National Park
Chapter: Louisville

Title: Front and Back - Cedar Waxwings on Red Maple in Spring
Photographer: Benia Zouras
Location: My native yard "Native Suburbia" in Bartlett, IL
Chapter: Greater DuPage

Title: Caterpillar on dill
Photographer: Shanda Behrens
Location: Ashville, Ohio
Chapter: Columbus

Title: I love mulberries!
Photographer: Janie Braud
Location: Grand Isle, LA
Chapter: Greater Baton Rouge

Title: its alive
Photographer: Bill Wickers
Location: Coral Woods Conservation Area, McHenry Cnty
Chapter: Greater Kane County

Title: Just the Two of Us
Photographer: Geri Fox
Location: My front yard in Oak Park, IL
Chapter: West Cook

Title: Milkweed Matters
Photographer: Kerri Thauby
Location: Carlisle, PA
Chapter: South Central Pennsylvania

Title: Really Just a Fly
Photographer: David Silsbee
Location: Mansfield, CT
Chapter: Mountain Laurel

Title: Hidden in the grass
Photographer: Amaris Danak
Location: Bluff Spring Fen, Elgin Illinois
Chapter: Greater Kane County

Title: They're All Mine
Photographer: David Silsbee
Location: Mansfield, CT
Chapter: Mountain Laurel

Title: Grasshopper eating
Photographer: Ann Mitchell
Location: The shore of Great Sand Bay,
Chapter: Keweenaw

Title: In the Spring
Photographer: Tyrin Avery
Location: In my backyard
Chapter: North Shore Massachusetts (Seedling)

Title: Red-winged Blackbird on Sedge
Photographer: Chelsey Smith
Location: Superior, WI at a wetland mitigation site.
Chapter: Arrowhead

Title: Monarch sipping Prairie Blazing Star
Photographer: Linda Nett-Duesterhoeft
Location: Washington Island’s Native Garden at the performing arts center.
Chapter: Fox Valley Area

Title: Rattlesnake master and insect
Photographer: Linda Nett-Duesterhoeft
Location: Carpenter Preserve, Neenah, Wi
Chapter: Fox Valley Area