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“Resemblance of a Prairie” by Saeed Muhammad
Image ID: 6676
Plant(s): Wild bergamot
Photo Story: I was having a lovely bike ride when we stopped to have a break and to look at the gorgeous native plants and the butterflies, bees, and hummingbird moths buzzing around them. So many of them were attracted to the wild bergamot, I couldn’t believe it!
Equipment: Kid’s digital camera.
Title: Resemblance of a Prairie
Photographer: Saeed Muhammad
Location: Waterfall Glen Forest Preserve, Lemont, IL
Chapter: Greater DuPage
“Swamp Rose and Flower Longhorn Beetle” by Kyla Muhammad
Image ID: 6677
Plant(s): Swamp rose and yellow-horned flower longhorn beetle.
Photo Story: I was admiring the blooms of the swamp rose when I saw this photogenic longhorn beetle laying across the middle, so I wanted to capture the collective beauty of both.
Equipment: Samsung Galaxy XCover Pro phone camera.
Title: Swamp Rose and Flower Longhorn Beetle
Photographer: Kyla Muhammad
Location: My backyard
Chapter: Greater DuPage
“Butterflies on Bergamot” by Kyla Muhammad
Image ID: 6678
Plant(s): Wild bergamot and Great Spangled Fritillary butterflies.
Photo Story: These two butterflies were perfectly posed in opposite directions on wild bergamot and I thought it was a really beautiful moment that I wanted to capture.
Equipment: Samsung Galaxy XCover Pro phone camera.
Title: Butterflies on Bergamot
Photographer: Kyla Muhammad
Location: Waterfall Glen Forest Preserve, Lemont, IL
Chapter: Greater DuPage
“Virginia Bluebells” by Kyla Muhammad
Image ID: 6679
Plant(s): Virginia Bluebells
Photo Story: This last spring, I participated in a bioblitz in the woods and was absolutely stunned by the striking beauty of the sea of Virginia bluebells that I saw that cascaded throughout the forest. I wanted to take a close up shot to show off the flowers’ details.
Equipment: Samsung Galaxy XCover Pro phone camera.
Title: Virginia Bluebells
Photographer: Kyla Muhammad
Location: O’Hara Woods, Romeoville, IL
Chapter: Greater DuPage
“About to Pupate” by Shannon Zabko
Image ID: 6684
Plant(s): Butterfly Weed (Asclepsia tuberosa)
Monarch Caterpillar
Photo Story: I planted this butterfly weed last summer and it transplanted well. I was excited to see it return in 2021 and watching for Monarch eggs. This morning we went for a walk. I was picking up a free mesh butterfly house from a generous neighbor in preparation for eggs. While coming back into our yard I spotted this guy near pupation that had hidden from me all along! Good timing. I will protect him and feed him milkweed until it’s time to fly.
Equipment: IPhone 7
Title: About to Pupate
Photographer: Shannon Zabko
Location: My yard
Chapter: Southeastern Pennsylvania
“A Rare Sighting” by Ruth Oldenburg
Image ID: 6685
Plant(s): Black and Gold Bumble Bee, Bombus auricomus on Beebalm, Monarda fistulosa
Photo Story: I was surprised to see such a large Bumble bee in my yard. I identified the bee with my SEEK app. It is a Black and Gold Bumble Bee, Bombus auricomus. I also discovered that this bee is rated SC for Special Concern in the MSU MIchigan Natural Features Inventory (MNFI). SC rating indicates declining or relict species in the state. While not protected by law, these species need protection to prevent them from becoming Threatened or Endangered. I reported the sighting to MNFI along with photos. They in turn, entered it into their database.
I have a 1/2 prairie that I planted mostly from seed, starting in 2004. The Beebalm was in full bloom and this big guy was taking advantage of it.
Equipment: iPhone 11s
Title: A Rare Sighting
Photographer: Ruth Oldenburg
Location: My yard in Belmont, MI
Chapter: River City-Grand Rapids Area
“Out-of-the-BOX” by Jennifer Ryan Kubicki
Image ID: 6686
Plant(s): Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) and Bee Balm (Monarda fistulosa) and leaves of Brown-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia triloba and of course non-native turf grass.
Photo Story: I’ve been a member of the Wild Ones here in Central Ohio (Columbus Chapter) since about 2002. I have been a seed collector and gardner since my childhood growing up in Cleveland, Ohio. It was a privilege to glean seed from a privately owned tallgrass prairie in Fredericktown, Ohio owned and operated by Guy Denny, founder of Ohio Natural Areas and Preserves in 2017. He generously holds Spring and Peak Bloom tours of his Prairie and it was on an Late Summer Open Member Seed Pick that that I obtained so many beautiful native seeds for free! It took about 5-years to get these seeds to leaf and flower and eventually fill-in as you see them depicted in this 2021 photo.
I have heard complaints that my coneflowers, grown from this wild prairie, are not like the short/compact plants you purchase as plugs or in containers selected by commercial growers. Yes – they really are quite tall and lanky and consequently we get this cascading effect going on over a small hillside in the front yard. I hadn’t noticed until I took this photo that my garden is so different from the ones on both sides of the street we live on – it is so “Outside the Box.”
The Coneflowers pop-up and lean down as the season subsides and rely on the monarda to keep them standing during their peak bloom time. So in order to prop up the Coneflowers, to maintain a tidy look,I sewed Brown-eyed Susan’s (Rudbeckia triloba) at the base. Rudbeckia triloba open’s later and provides a longer color-interest to this garden bed. Even still, the front yard is a tidy controlled display of commonly known prairie plants and it’s the back yard that I can really go WILD.
Equipment: Android Phone – Note 9
Title: Out-of-the-BOX
Photographer: Jennifer Ryan Kubicki
Location: 1492 Norma Road, Columbus, Ohio 43229
Chapter: Columbus
“Primrose Hedge” by Jennifer Ryan Kubicki
Image ID: 6689
Plant(s): From the back: Evening Primrose, Purple Coneflower, Garlic Chives (not native), Black-eyed Susan.
Photo Story: I believe we all have neighbors or relatives who complain about something that seems out of the ordinary – pushing the boundaries of beauty as we re-capitulate the need for native plants. My back yard is perceived as a “Weed Patch” for some, until the end of July that is, when the fragrance of Clethra alnifolia and Common Milkweed is in the evening air. Family members come over and watch the hummingbirds dart in and out of our mimosas. By August the Evening Primrose and Cup Plants have reached the height of 9 and 10 feet and the neighbors can no longer see past my native flowering hedge and the pollinators and wildlife explode with color and activity from my kitchen window.
Equipment: Cannon T5
Title: Primrose Hedge
Photographer: Jennifer Ryan Kubicki
Location: Behind my house
Chapter: Columbus
“Better than Wood” by Jennifer Kubicki
Image ID: 6693
Plant(s): Monarda fistulosa & Carpenter Bee
Photo Story: These bees have been regular visitors to both the back and front yards, and I’m assuming they are a Carpenter Bees. Although these plants and their visitors are very close to the house, we have been fortunate that there have been no reports of swarming or stinging by any bee pollinator, so I felt confident getting up close and personal to these photos. Wild Bergamot is a great subject to photo and is interesting out of peak flowering, sporting a geometric pattern as the petals begin to fall.
Equipment: Android – Note 9 phone camera
Title: Better than Wood
Photographer: Jennifer Kubicki
Location: Front Yard on Monarda Flowers
Chapter: Columbus
“Camoulflage Cap” by Jennifer Kubicki
Image ID: 6695
Plant(s): Male Goldfinch & Brown-Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia triloba)
Photo Story: I thought it was interesting the way this male goldfinch really blended in with the Rudbeckia triloba. It seems that many birds have evolved to mimic their favorite food sources.
Equipment: Cannon 7D & Tamron Telephoto Lens
Title: Camoulflage Cap
Photographer: Jennifer Kubicki
Location: In the Back of my home
Chapter: Columbus
“Pawpaw Tree Flower” by Jennifer Kubicki
Image ID: 6696
Plant(s): Pawpaw Tree Flower ( Asimina triloba)
Photo Story: This was the first year I was able to get a photograph of the flower without using a telephoto lens as they really are about the size of a quarter or silver dollar at best. I’m happy to say that if the squirrels don’t get them first, we should have some fruit this Autumn!
Equipment: Cannon D7 and Macro Lens
Title: Pawpaw Tree Flower
Photographer: Jennifer Kubicki
Location: Behind my home in Columbus, Ohio (Pawpaw are native to this location)
Chapter: Columbus
“Lakeside Daisy” by Jennifer Kubicki
Image ID: 6697
Plant(s): Lakeside Daisy
Photo Story: LafargeHolcim Ltd. allowed volunteers from several seed saving groups to remove mature seed heads from their quarry near Marblehead, Ohio. The area was slated for mining limestone and all the plants in this area would have been forever removed.
The seeds were then dried and transplanted to Kelly’s Island as a concerted effort to preserve this endangered flowering plant into a protected public location not far from its primary location.
Several years earlier on June 29th 2012 a Duracho Storm hit Columbus hard, tearing down power lines to our neighborhood. The Electric Company employed a lot of large pieces of equipment to our next door neighbor’s house that needed to be rewaired and the equipment crushed a sidewalk that was next to and attached to our home. I asked the contractors if they could removed the sidewalk and apply a bed of limestone screening, which was the perfect habitat for a handful of seeds I had saved at LaForge. The Lakeside Daisy has been happily and safely spreading in that rock garden ever since. From a distance one might think this is the non-native dandelion but if your really look at it up close, you can see this is clearly not dandelion.
Equipment: Note 9 – Android phone camera
Title: Lakeside Daisy
Photographer: Jennifer Kubicki
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Chapter: Columbus
“Liatris and Surprise Insect” by Jennifer Kubicki
Image ID: 6698
Plant(s): Scaly blazing star (Liatris squarrosa) and the eyes of an unidentified insect.
Photo Story: This is a very small Liatris, and one that could be easily overlooked and or stepped on while cruising through a prairie however, we had just set out and this plant was in full sun and not far from a parking lot that had been cleared. Somehow, this tiny insect was nestled inside the tube of the Liatris flower head when the photo was taken and I never really noticed it until I blew this photo. So, if someone can identify this insect that would be great – otherwise it’s a surprise!
Equipment: Cannon T5
Title: Liatris and Surprise Insect
Photographer: Jennifer Kubicki
Location: In a Prairie Adams County, Ohio
Chapter: Columbus
“Widow Skimmer Dragonfly” by Jennifer Kubicki
Image ID: 6699
Plant(s): Widow Skimmer (Libellula luctuosa) Dragonfly Female on Grass Spp. Stalk on the edge of a pond.
Photo Story: My husband and I regularly go out to this location for great photoshoots as The Ohio State University has allocated this location specifically in the hopes of developing better farm practices to address the growing need of incorporating native plants, insects, and animals into the windbreaks, roadsides and around streams and ponds.
I really enjoy photographing native birds and insects and hope that more people get a chance to find out how beautiful and unique they really are.
Equipment: Cannon T5i
Title: Widow Skimmer Dragonfly
Photographer: Jennifer Kubicki
Location: The Molly Caren Agricultural Center near London, Ohio
Chapter: Columbus
“Dancing Trilliums” by Barbara DeGraves
Image ID: 6700
Plant(s): Large-Flowered Trilliums (Trillium grandiflorum)
Photo Story: While visiting the Great Smoky Mountains, I photographed various spring wildflowers growing along a wooded hillside trail. These white trilliums growing by a fallen log stood out in the soft evening light. They were swaying in the slight breeze and made me think of dancing partners. Trilliums are propagated by ants.
Equipment: Canon 90D, 1/25 sec @ f/5.6, ISO 400, Canon Lens 35 mm
Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop
Title: Dancing Trilliums
Photographer: Barbara DeGraves
Location: Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Cove Hardwoods Nature Trail, TN
Chapter: SoKY
“Monarch on Prairie Blazing Star” by Morgan Meador
Image ID: 6701
Plant(s): Adult Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus)
Prairie Blazing Star (Liatris pycnostachya)
Photo Story: I was able to snap a quick shot of this monarch during a quick visit to this small prairie in the middle of town! I remember capturing this shot on my birthday, so I have very fond memories of this being a great birthday gift from the prairie!
Equipment: Canon Rebel
Title: Monarch on Prairie Blazing Star
Photographer: Morgan Meador
Location: Searles Prairie Natural Area, Rogers Arkansas
Chapter: Ozark
“Roadside Orchid” by Morgan Meador
Image ID: 6702
Plant(s): Orange Fringed Orchid (Platanthera ciliaris)
Photo Story: My family and I were driving back from visiting a prairie in Clark County, and we spotted this beauty on the way home! What a nice surprise!
Equipment: Canon Rebel
Title: Roadside Orchid
Photographer: Morgan Meador
Location: Along a roadside in Grant County, Arkansas
Chapter: Ozark
“River Oats Ablaze” by Kyla Muhammad
Image ID: 6703
Plant(s): River oats
Photo Story: The lime-green color of these river oats added so much brightness to our rain garden and have such a lovely cascade of the oats, that I wanted to capture what a striking plant this is.
Equipment: Samsung Galaxy XCover Pro phone camera.
Title: River Oats Ablaze
Photographer: Kyla Muhammad
Location: My front yard rain garden
Chapter: Greater DuPage
“Scene at Jackson Park” by Kyla Muhammad
Image ID: 6704
Plant(s): Pickerelweed and white waterlily
Photo Story: Just a beautiful view of a pond at Jackson Park.
Equipment: Samsung Galaxy XCover Pro phone camera
Title: Scene at Jackson Park
Photographer: Kyla Muhammad
Location: Jackson Park, Chicago, IL
Chapter: Greater DuPage
“Summer” by Renee Benage
Image ID: 6709
Plant(s): Purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea), Royal Catchfly (Silene regia), Phlox paniculata
Photo Story: This photo was taken at the Shaw Nature Reserve in the Whitmire Wildflower Garden on a hot July day in 2021.
Equipment: Canon Power Shot SX70 HS
Title: Summer
Photographer: Renee Benage
Location: Shaw Nature Reserve in Gray Summit, Missouri
Chapter: St. Louis
“Swallowtail” by Renee Benage
Image ID: 6710
Plant(s): Prairie Blazing Star (Liatris pycnostachya) and Giant Swallowtail (Papilio cresphontes)
Photo Story: This photo was taken at the Shaw Nature Reserve along one of the prairie trails during July 2021.
Equipment: Canon Power Shot SX70 HS
Title: Swallowtail
Photographer: Renee Benage
Location: Shaw Nature Reserve in Gray Summit, Missouri
Chapter: St. Louis
“Fritillary” by Renee Benage
Image ID: 6712
Plant(s): Great Spangled Fritillaries (Speyeria cybele) on wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa)
Photo Story: This photo was taken in early July 2021 at Cuivre River State Park.
Equipment: Canon Power Shot SX70 HS
Title: Fritillary
Photographer: Renee Benage
Location: Cuivre River State Park, Lincoln County, Missouri
Chapter: St. Louis
“Waterleaf Mining Bee on Virginia Waterleaf” by Joan Brandwein
Image ID: 6711
Plant(s): Waterleaf Mining Bee on Virginia Waterleaf
Photo Story: I enjoy capturing photos of pollinators visiting the native plantings I have developed in my small urban yard. I often post my observations on INaturalist to track and learn more about my garden visitors. I captured this photo of a small bee visiting Virginia Waterleaf in my shady native planting area under a small tree in late May, posted it on INaturalist and there Heather Holm identified it as a Waterleaf Mining Bee. It is one of only 20 observations of this species on INaturalist.
Equipment: Sony a7riii, 90mm macro lens
Title: Waterleaf Mining Bee on Virginia Waterleaf
Photographer: Joan Brandwein
Location: Saint Paul MN
Chapter: Big River Big Woods
“ShootingStar” by Renee Benage
Image ID: 6713
Plant(s): Shooting star (Primula meadia)
Photo Story: This photo was taken May 23 at the dedication of the Missouri Prairie Foundation’s Schuette Prairie.
Equipment: Canon Power Shot SX70 HS
Title: ShootingStar
Photographer: Renee Benage
Location: Schuette Prairie in Polk County, Missouri
Chapter: St. Louis
“Minnesota Garden at Como Park Zoo and Conservatory” by Joan Brandwein
Image ID: 6714
Plant(s): Black-eyed Susans, Prairie Dropseed, Little Bluestem, Common Milkweed
Photo Story: I live near Como Park Zoo and Conservatory in St. Paul, MN and walk in the park nearly everyday. Over the past several years, I’ve enjoyed watching the development of the recently added Minnesota Garden featuring native plants. I captured this late August scene of a portion of the garden and the Conservatory at sunrise.
Equipment: Sony a7r111, 70-180mm Tamron lens
Title: Minnesota Garden at Como Park Zoo and Conservatory
Photographer: Joan Brandwein
Location: Como Park Zoo and Conservatory, Saint Paul, MN
Chapter: Big River Big Woods
“Fern” by Renee Benage
Image ID: 6715
Plant(s): Ostrich Fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris)
Photo Story: This photo was taken in April 2021 at Shaw Nature Reserve.
Equipment: Canon Power Shot SX70 HS
Title: Fern
Photographer: Renee Benage
Location: Shaw Nature Reserve in Gray Summit, Missouri
Chapter: St. Louis
“Bumbled” by David Pilcher
Image ID: 6718
Plant(s): Bombus Pensylvanicus
Photo Story: Close enough
Equipment: iPhone
Title: Bumbled
Photographer: David Pilcher
Location: Lexington back yard
Chapter: Lexington
“Empty shells” by David Pilcher
Image ID: 6720
Plant(s): Mussels shells
Photo Story: Edge of wetlands
Equipment: iPhone
Title: Empty shells
Photographer: David Pilcher
Location: Logan County Ohio
Chapter: Lexington
“Captured” by David Pilcher
Image ID: 6721
Plant(s): Parthenocissus quinquefolia
Virginia creeper
Photo Story: Icy fence line
Equipment: Iphone
Title: Captured
Photographer: David Pilcher
Location: Lexington back yard
Chapter: Lexington
“Lacewing fountain” by Jack Hambene
Image ID: 6731
Plant(s): Lacewing eggs on Swamp Milkweed
Photo Story: While searching for Monarch larva, I discovered these lacewing eggs
Equipment: I phone
Title: Lacewing fountain
Photographer: Jack Hambene
Location: Personal residence
Chapter: St. Louis
“Bumble bee (Bombus Auricomus) on a cone flower head” by Paul Wolters
Image ID: 6740
Plant(s): Bumble bee (Bombus Auricomus)
Photo Story: Walking around the Wild One Nature Center in Neenah and the Bumble bee was on top of the cone flower.
Equipment: Canon, EOS 60D with a 18 to 135 zoom lens.
Title: Bumble bee (Bombus Auricomus) on a cone flower head
Photographer: Paul Wolters
Location: Wild One Nature Center, Neenah, WI
Chapter: Fox Valley Area
“Bumblebees and their corbicula” by CATHY JOHNSON
Image ID: 6742
Plant(s): Bumblebees (Bombus species unknown)
Obedient plant (Physostegia virginiana)
Photo Story: Bumblebees and other pollinators had been busy collecting pollen from the obedient plants in my yard in mid-August. These two were particularly laden with pollen in their sacs. It’s fascinating to me how much they can carry relative to their weight and still fly around doing their very important work of pollination.
Equipment: Android phone (Pixel 3)
Title: Bumblebees and their corbicula
Photographer: CATHY JOHNSON
Location: Rockford, IL
Chapter: Rock River Valley
“Speyeria on Tithonia” by Jennifer Moore
Image ID: 6743
Plant(s): I am pretty sure this is a Speyeria (at least as identified by the iNaturalists app). I understand it is commonly known as “greater fritillaries.” It’s feeding on a Tithonia a/k/a Mexican sunflower I purchased at Bending Birches this spring.
Photo Story: This critter accompanied me while I was watering my vegetable garden in July.
Equipment: iPhone XS
Title: Speyeria on Tithonia
Photographer: Jennifer Moore
Location: My backyard in Duluth (Endion neighborhood)
Chapter: Arrowhead
“Pipevine Swallowtail on Cardenial Plant” by Diana Linsley
Image ID: 6748
Plant(s): Swallowtail butterfly on a Cardinal Plant (Lobrlia cardinalis)
Photo Story: I planted the cardinal flowers 2 years ago to attach hummingbirds, this year there were other vistiors
Equipment: Canon 7 D, marco 100 lens
Title: Pipevine Swallowtail on Cardenial Plant
Photographer: Diana Linsley
Location: my backyard, in Crestwood Missouri
Chapter: St. Louis
“Great Blue lobelia buds” by Judy Mead
Image ID: 6756
Plant(s): Great blue lobelia –Lobelia siphilitica
Photo Story: I liked the abstract nature of this shot. I had to go back to the flower to see if it truly looked like the photo. It did! When the flowers open, they are buzzing with bees. The nectar held inside the buds is less accessible. It’s fun watching the insects working their way into and out of the tubular flowers in search of the nectar while, unwittingly, performing pollinating services.
Equipment: iphone 6 camera
Title: Great Blue lobelia buds
Photographer: Judy Mead
Location: My yard
Chapter: Menomonee River Area
“Monarch on Liatris” by Robert Wright
Image ID: 6755
Plant(s): Monarch Butterfly feeding on Liatris Ligulistylis Meadow Blazing Star
Photo Story: When I heard that Liatris Ligulistylis Meadow Blazing Star was a magnet for Monarchs Butterflies,
I decided to plant several in my garden. I am certainly glad that I did because the Liatris is living up to its billing. Monarchs are constantly feeding on these plants and have brought me great joy.
Equipment: iPhone camera
Title: Monarch on Liatris
Photographer: Robert Wright
Location: my backyard
Chapter: St. Louis
“Monarch on Meadow Blazing Star” by Robert Wright
Image ID: 6757
Plant(s): Liatris Ligulistylis Meadow Blazing Star
Photo Story: Monarch butterflies love Liatris and are constantly feeding on this beautiful native wildflower.
Monarchs feed on several of the natives in my garden, but they spend more time on the Liatris.
So that is where I patiently wait to get the best pictures.
Equipment: iPhone camer
Title: Monarch on Meadow Blazing Star
Photographer: Robert Wright
Location: native wildflower garden in my backyard
Chapter: St. Louis
“Woodland Wonder” by Nathalie Shanstrom
Image ID: 6760
Plant(s): Woodland Sunflower, Helianthus strumosus
Photo Story: Yellow flowers brightening our backyard
Equipment: mom’s phone
Title: Woodland Wonder
Photographer: Nathalie Shanstrom
Location: My garden in Bloomington, Minnesota
Chapter: Twin Cities
“Woodland Wonder” by Lukas Shanstrom
Image ID: 6761
Plant(s): Woodland Sunflower, Helianthus strumosus
Photo Story: Yellow flowers brightening our back yard
Equipment: mom’s phone
Title: Woodland Wonder
Photographer: Lukas Shanstrom
Location: My garden in Bloomington, Minnesota
Chapter: Twin Cities
“Milkweed Muncher” by Lukas Shanstrom
Image ID: 6762
Plant(s): Milkweed
Photo Story: red and black bug found on milkweed in my backyard
Equipment: mom’s phone
Title: Milkweed Muncher
Photographer: Lukas Shanstrom
Location: My garden in Bloomington, Minnesota
Chapter: Twin Cities
“PonderLand” by Mimi Hernandez
Image ID: 6763
Plant(s): Asclepias variegata
White Milkweed
Redwing Milkweed
Photo Story: I recently bought my first home with close to 4 acres in Western NC. I call the property the PonderLand. The PonderLand has a meadow, a forest, and a pond and my dream is to create native plant sanctuary. As I approach this dream, I have been welcoming the seasons and taking inventory of what native plant surprises pop up. I captured this striking photo during a walk along the forest edge at dusk.
Equipment: Iphone 11 pro
Title: PonderLand
Photographer: Mimi Hernandez
Location: Western North Carolina
Chapter: Western North Carolina (Seedling)
“PonderLand Paintbrush” by Mimi Hernandez
Image ID: 6764
Plant(s): Lobelia cardinalis, the cardinal flower
Photo Story: I recently bought my first home with close to 4 acres in Western NC. I call the property the PonderLand. The PonderLand has a meadow, a forest, and a pond and my dream is to create native plant sanctuary. As I approach this dream, I have been welcoming the seasons and taking inventory of what native plant surprises pop up. When I first moved n the land was very manicured and mowed. I decided to stop mowing the edge of the pond to see what naturally arises. The pond edge has surprised me with an assortment of native plants! I captured this striking photo during a walk along the pond.
Equipment: Iphone 11 Pro
Title: PonderLand Paintbrush
Photographer: Mimi Hernandez
Location: Western NC. Mill Spring, NC. The PonderLand
Chapter: Western North Carolina (Seedling)
“Bee meets Penstemon” by Betty Struckhoff
Image ID: 6765
Plant(s): Beardtongue (Penstemon Digitalis) and Carpenter Bee (genus Eucera)
Photo Story: Participating in a local bee study (see Shutterbee on inaturalist) I was only getting pictures of the hind ends of bees on the Penstemon. I waited with my finger on the shutter and snapped as soon as I saw the bee start to move out!
Equipment: Canon PowerShot
Title: Bee meets Penstemon
Photographer: Betty Struckhoff
Location: Des Peres MO
Chapter: St. Louis
“I’ve Been Waiting for You” by Betty Struckhoff
Image ID: 6767
Plant(s): Sweet Coneflower (Rudbeckia Submentosa), Praying Mantis
Photo Story: Easy to find these guys on all kinds of natives in late summer.
Equipment: Canon Power Shot
Title: I’ve Been Waiting for You
Photographer: Betty Struckhoff
Location: Des Peres MO
Chapter: St. Louis
“Katydid a Wild Petunia” by Betty Struckhoff
Image ID: 6770
Plant(s): Wild Petunia (Ruellia humilis) and Katydid nymph
Photo Story: When looking for bees to photograph for a local University study, I kept finding other life that continually amazed me. I will always stroll around and look at my flowers now.
Equipment: Canon Power Shot
Title: Katydid a Wild Petunia
Photographer: Betty Struckhoff
Location: Des Peres MO
Chapter: St. Louis
“Strawberry Bush Fruit” by Jane Schaefer
Image ID: 6769
Plant(s): Strawberry Bush (Euonymus americanus)
Photo Story: I love the strawberry bush fruit and got this photo with my I Phone.
Equipment: I Phone
Title: Strawberry Bush Fruit
Photographer: Jane Schaefer
Location: My Back Yard
Chapter: St. Louis
“Dogwood-Sky” by Betty Struckhoff
Image ID: 6771
Plant(s): Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida)
Photo Story: Walking through woods on a cloudy day my perspective changed by looking up.
Equipment: Canon Power Show
Title: Dogwood-Sky
Photographer: Betty Struckhoff
Location: Des Peres MO
Chapter: St. Louis
“September Prairie Sunset” by Sheree Oden
Image ID: 6766
Plant(s): This is most likely coreopsis palmata or coreopsis grandiflora .
Photo Story: Walking at sunset in the Dean Nature Preserve
Equipment: iPhone XR camera
Title: September Prairie Sunset
Photographer: Sheree Oden
Location: Dean Nature Preserve, Oak Brook, Illinois
Chapter: West Cook
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