“Cardinal Flower” by Lauren Nagoda

Plant(s): Cardinal Flower
Lobelia cardinalis

Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Archilochus colubris
Photo Story: Runy-throated Humminbird enjoying the Cardinal Flowers.
Equipment: Canon R6 Mark II with Canon 100-500mm
Photo ID: 32796

“Hungry Caterpillar” by Laura Gorecki

Plant(s): Monarch caterpillar on a milkweed plant
Photo Story: I took this photo in my backyard pollinator garden on 8/13/23.I spotted a total of 9 monarch caterpillars on my one milkweed plant. Next year I’ll plant several more!
Equipment: Iphone
Photo ID: 32797

“Giant Swallowtail and echinacea” by Sonya Strenge

Plant(s): Swallowtail and cone flower
Photo Story: I was out tending to my garden and a giant swallowtail was enjoying coneflowers I started from seed several years ago.
Equipment: iPhone
Photo ID: 32798

“Divorced Slug, She Got the House” by Emily Smoot

Plant(s): Spiderwort and snail, taken on Board Camp Creek Trail
Photo Story: Taken on a summer hike
Equipment: Samsung Galexy
Photo ID: 32799

“Morning Black Eyed Susans” by Michele Ricamato

Plant(s): Michele Ricamato
Photo Story: Michele Ricamato
Equipment: Iphone
Photo ID: 32800

“The master of the garden” by Michele Ricamato

Plant(s): Rattlesnake Master
Photo Story: Michele Ricamato
Equipment: iPhone
Photo ID: 32801

“Public Library Native Species Planters” by Heather Brunelle

Plant(s): Monarch (Danaus plexippus) and Aromatic aster (Symphyotrichum oblongifolium).
Photo Story: The photo was taken at the Jonathan Trumbull Library in Lebanon, Connecticut. To provide visual cover of exterior utilities, trough planters were installed and planted with native species plants. Approximately 50 children from a summer camp worked collaboratively to help construct the eight planters. Heather Brunelle, a Wild Ones member, volunteered to design, install, and maintain the native species planters. The planters are intended to be used for environmental education purposes at the town library.
Equipment: Samsung Galaxy S22 phone.
Photo ID: 32802

“Black Swallowtail and Missouri Ironweed” by Steven Dominguez

Plant(s): Black Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) and Missouri Ironweed (Veronia Missurica)
Photo Story: Backyard pollinator appreciates native wildflowers
Equipment: IPhone 11
Photo ID: 32804

“My New Friend” by Caitlin Cervenka

Plant(s): Oriole
Photo Story: My partner and I recently moved to my grandparents’ land near Galena, IL. We moved from a trendy Chicago neighborhood to a 90 acre forest – my grandparents’ have been reforesting this land for about 30 years, and it is beautiful, but I do miss my friends a lot. One morning shortly after our move, I was feeling a little lonely and missing my friends from Chicago. Suddenly, my dog started crying at the porch door and I went to inspect. I was surprised and delighted to see this gorgeous male oriole just perched on the door pane. I think he was probably just noticing his reflection. But a part of me hopes and wishes he was just coming to say hi and let me know I do have a friend here, albeit not human, but still delightful. He came back to visit for about a week, every day, same part of the door. I miss him and I hope he is back next year – I’ll be leaving out some grape jelly for sure!
Equipment: Regular old iPhone
Photo ID: 32805

“monarch caterpillar snacking” by Larissa Armstrong

Plant(s): Swamp Milkweed, Asclepias incarnata
Photo Story: This picture was taken in my backyard mini prairie patch. The monarch caterpillars LOVE my swamp milkweed plants, and I was lucky enough to catch this one chomping away on a flower bud. I have a great video of it too!
Equipment: iPhone12 camera
Photo ID: 32806

“Common Thread-waisted Wasp on Cut-leaf coneflower” by Diana Green

Plant(s): Eumenes fraternus and Cut-leaf coneflower (Rudbeckia laciniata)
Photo Story: A beautiful day in Central New York. Pollinators all over my coneflowers. I was drawn to this one in particular because of the beautiful black of the wasp against the yellow of the coneflower.
Equipment: SONY RX10
Photo ID: 32807

“Orange” by Bill Wickers

Plant(s): Michigan Lily
Photo Story: Taken at Freeman Kame Forest Preserve, first time I was there when the lilies were blooming
Equipment: Sony A6 55-210 lens
Photo ID: 32810

“Bombus” by Chris Kosin

Plant(s): Bombus impatiens with echinacea purpurea
Photo Story: Bumblebee on Echinacea outside my home in Pittsburgh 2022
Equipment: Pixel 7 phone
Photo ID: 32811

“Fall” by Bill Wickers

Plant(s): Virginia Creeper
Photo Story: I took lots of fall shots on this hike.
Equipment: Sony a6
Photo ID: 32812

“Giant Swallowtail and echinacea” by Sonya Strenge

Plant(s): Swallowtail and cone flower
Photo Story: I was out tending to my garden and a giant swallowtail was enjoying coneflowers I started from seed several years ago.
Equipment: iPhone
Photo ID: 32813

“Urban Landscape” by Chris Kosin

Plant(s): Yarrow, echinacea, monarda
Photo Story: Urban perennial garden in Pittsburgh PA, full front yard with perennials, trees, and shrubs
Equipment: Pixel 7 phone
Photo ID: 32814

“Sign of Spring” by Bill Wickers

Plant(s): Trout Lily
Photo Story: I was monitoring bloom times for McHenry County (IL) Conservation District at Coral Woods. I took lots of photos, this was one of my favorites.
Equipment: Sony a6, 55-210mm lens
Photo ID: 32815

“Yellow Bloodroot” by Bill Wickers

Plant(s): Bloodroot and Swamp Buttercup
Photo Story: Walking in Coral Woods Conservation Area, I noticed this unusual bloom. The bloodroot had already flowered, but a swamp buttercup sent a flower up through the leaf of the bloodroot.
Equipment: Sony a6 with 55-210mm lens
Photo ID: 32816

“Coneflower” by Dorothy Boyer

Plant(s): Purple Coneflower (echinacea purpurea)
Photo Story: Just one of more than 150 species of wildflowers and grasses growing on our one-acre lot in the Town of Grafton.
Equipment: iPhone SE
Photo ID: 32817

“Coneflowers” by Dorothy Boyer

Plant(s): Purple Coneflower (echinacea purpurea)
Photo Story: One of more than 150 species of native Wisconsin wildflowers and grasses on our one-acre lot in the Town of Grafton.
Equipment: iphone SE
Photo ID: 32818

“Milkweed and Friends” by Bill Wickers

Plant(s): Common Milkweed with Milkweed Beetles
Photo Story: There were lots of beetles on the milkweeds this day, this was my favorite.
Equipment: Sony a6
Photo ID: 32819

“Prairie” by Maryclaire Kofron

Plant(s): Rattlesnake master
Photo Story: Taken at Shaw Arboretum at twilight while listening to owls
Equipment: LG smart phone
Photo ID: 32820

“New England Asters” by Joanne Desjardins

Plant(s): New England Aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae)
Photo Story: These New England asters grow behind my barn.
Equipment: LG Electronics LM-X210 cell phone
Photo ID: 32822

“Common Milkweed” by Joanne Desjardins

Plant(s): Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)
Photo Story: Twenty years ago I tried to limit growth of milkweed in my field. Now I let it grow wherever it chooses!
Equipment: Canon SX150IS camera
Photo ID: 32823

“Wild cherry blossoms” by Joanne Desjardins

Plant(s): Cherry (Prunus)
I’m not sure if this is a chokecherry (prunus virginiana) or a black cherry (prunus serotina).
Photo Story: In the springtime the wild cherries that bloom on the roadside by my home are beautiful.
Equipment: LG Electronics LM-X210 cellphone
Photo ID: 32825

“Tickseed with a Yellow-Collared Scape Moth” by Joanne Desjardins

Plant(s): Tickseed (Coreopsis lanceolata) with Yellow-Collared Scape Moth
Photo Story: This moth settled on a tickseed flower in my backyard.
Equipment: LG Electronics LM-X210 cellphone
Photo ID: 32826

“Center of Cul-de-sac” by Richard Whitney

Plant(s): Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa), Prairie Dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis)
Photo Story: The plants are at the center of a cul-de-sac which has 4 homes. Each year, it looks a little different and this year the butterfly weed was spectacular.
Equipment: Cell phone.
Photo ID: 32830

“Shooting Star” by Tom Scheidt

Plant(s): Shooting Star, Dodecatheon meadia
Photo Story: In the summer my wife and I go out 2-3 times a week looking at the wildflowers at our nearby forest preserves. We are so lucky to live in Lake County were we have a good forest preserve system.
Equipment: Nikon D3400, 90mm Tamron, f/13, 1/200 sec, ISO 800
Photo ID: 32832

“Blue Wild Indigo” by Tom Scheidt

Plant(s): Blue Wild Indigo, Baptisia australis
Photo Story: We are at Pine Dunes every 10 days during the growing season. Last spring we saw only one Blue Wild Indigo at Pine Dunes. This spring we saw close to 30 plants. It was a good year for all the Baptisia but are still amazed at how the Blue population grew so much.
Equipment: Nikon D7200, 270mm. F/13, 1/500 sec, ISO 1250
Photo ID: 32833

“Monarch Munching Butterfly Weed” by Cindy Adams-Kornmeyer

Plant(s): Monarch caterpillar and butterfly weed
Photo Story: This happy caterpillar munched its way through several leaves of my butterfly weed alongside several milkweed bugs before moving on.

– Cindy Adams-Kornmeyer
Equipment: iPhone 8
Photo ID: 32834