Laura's Wichita Mountains gallery--insects


Geometer moth (family Geometridae)--thanks, Vince! I love when these guys are hanging around on gossamer, waving in the breeze	I THINK this is a Pipevine Swallowtail--leastwise it looks like the one in Butterflies through Binoculars--The West.	This is not the itsy-bitsy spider that is walking down the waterspout--it's a Wolf Spider (thanks, Vince!)

Blue Dasher	Robber Flies making whoopie



Click Beetle	Blue Dasher

Female Indomitable Melipotis Moth -- Melipotis indomita (Thanks, Vince!)	Crane Fly	Large Milkweed Bugs (Oncopeltus fasciatusu--thanks, Diva!) caught in a compromising act.

Red Admiral Blaine County

Dung Beetles!!!!! (They were adorable pushing and rolling that big tur-..ahem..piece of dung across a dirt road.)

Black Swallowtail	Mourning Cloak

Red Admirals

Red Admiral	Clouded Sulphur	This is a bee. What kind? I have no clue.

This is the same bee, and I still don't know.

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