October 2016

Coded locations in Louisiana for the following photos may be found on each photo under the date.

ABSP=Abita Springs, LA
BC=Bonnet Carre Spillway
BG=New Orleans Botanical       Gardens
MET=Metairie, LA

1
Bald Eagle

2
Male Eastern Amberwing

3
Phaon Crescent

4
Great Egret

5
Ocola Skipper

6
Male fiery Skipper

7
Pied-billed Grebe

8
Bald Eagle

9
Female Pipevine Swallowtail

10
Ocola Skipper

11
Viceroy

12
Male Downy Woodpecker

13
Female Rose-breasted Grosbeak

14
Sunset on the north shore of the Causeway bridge

15
Sunset on the Causeway bridge

16
Leaf-footed Bug

17
American Bird Grasshopper

18
American Bird Grasshopper

19
Long-tailed Skipper

20
Water Lily

21
Gray Hairstreak

22
Fiery Skipper

23
Honeybee

24
Long-tailed Skipper
25
Possibly an Orange-barred Sulphur

26
Gulf Fritillary close up and artsified
27
Water Lily

28
Water Lily

29
Water Lily with a male Blue Dasher dragonfly

30
Mocis marcida moth
(ID courtesy of Vernon Antoine Brou Jr. through Linda Auld)

31
Male Eastern Amberwing

32
Gulf Fritillary laying an egg

33
Northern Cloudywing

34
Orange-barred Sulphur

35
Paper wasp

36
Spicebush Swallowtail

37
Wolf Spider

38
Long-tailed Skipper

39
Monarch on milkweed
(note the many yellow aphids)

40
Monarch with an "unruly head of hair"

41
Hover Fly

42
Newly hatched Gulf Fritillary and caterpillar

43
Close-up of #42 Fritillary  caterpillar

44
Gulf Fritillaries mating
    To view montages of these photos please click
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and find Panel 11.