A suburban Chicago ecosystem
Image Gallery
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Clouded Plant Bug Nymph
On Common Buttonbush
Location: Backyard and Home
Shot Date: June 29, 2024, 3 p.m. -
Bumble Bee
Visiting Spotted Touch-me-not
Location: Crabtree Nature Center
Shot Date: Aug. 22, 2024, 10:46 a.m. -
Spined Soldier Bug
At Busse Woods
Location: Busse Woods
Shot Date: July 3, 2024, 12:27 p.m. -
Periodical Cicada
In Busse Woods
Location: Busse Woods
Shot Date: June 3, 2024, 11:55 a.m. -
Orchard Orb Weaver
In its web
Location: Crabtree Nature Center
Shot Date: Aug. 22, 2024, 10:41 a.m. -
Eastern Bluebird
Bringing cicada to nest
Location: Crabtree Nature Center
Shot Date: May 31, 2024, 9:36 a.m. -
Mama House Sparrow
Feeding periodical cicada to her young
Location: Backyard and Home
Shot Date: May 30, 2024, 12:36 p.m. -
Spined Micrathena Web
At Crabtree Nature Center
Location: Crabtree Nature Center
Shot Date: Sept. 1, 2023, 8:50 a.m. -
Spined Micrathena
At Crabtree Nature Center
Location: Crabtree Nature Center
Shot Date: Sept. 1, 2023, 8:50 a.m. -
Fourlined Plant Bug
On Common Ironweed
Location: Backyard and Home
Shot Date: June 2, 2023, 6:05 p.m. -
Chinese Mantis
On Canada Goldenrod
Location: Ruth Macintyre Conservation Area
Shot Date: Sept. 26, 2022, 10:37 a.m. -
Chinese Mantis
On Canada Goldenrod
Location: Ruth Macintyre Conservation Area
Shot Date: Sept. 26, 2022, 10:37 a.m. -
Chinese Mantis
At the conservation area
Location: Ruth Macintyre Conservation Area
Shot Date: Sept. 26, 2022, 10:39 a.m. -
Banded Garden Spider
At the conservation area
Location: Ruth Macintyre Conservation Area
Shot Date: Sept. 9, 2022, 9:13 a.m. -
Cross Orbweaver
In the backyard gardens
Location: Backyard and Home
Shot Date: July 9, 2021, 4:15 p.m. -
Wolf Spider (Tigrosa helluo)
With her babies on her abdomen
Location: Ruth Macintyre Conservation Area
Shot Date: Aug. 31, 2021, 9:33 a.m. -
Water Strider
At the pond
Location: Ruth Macintyre Conservation Area
Shot Date: Aug. 12, 2021, 10:08 a.m. -
Pink Spotted Lady Beetle
In the backyard gardens
Location: Backyard and Home
Shot Date: June 13, 2021, 12:09 p.m. -
Helmeted Squash Bug
On Lance-leaf Coreopsis
Location: Backyard and Home
Shot Date: June 7, 2021, 3:33 p.m. -
Scarab Beetle
On Common Elderberry
Location: Backyard and Home
Shot Date: May 16, 2021, 3:12 p.m.