Chicago Botanic Garden Butterfly house
Chicago Botanic Garden Butterfly house
Chicago Botanic Garden Butterfly House
Chicago Botanic Garden Butterfly House
Chicago Botanic Garden Butterfly House
Wood Nymph butterflies, a pair feeding on nectar of Echinacea, Purple Cone flower in my coastal Maine Phippsburg garden in summer
Giant Digger Wasp on oregano flowers. Phippsburg Maine garden. Latin name is Sphex ichneumoneus
Giant Digger Wasp, Sphex ichneumons  on asclepias flowers, also known as Milkweed. This is a cultivated variety in this photo. Phippsburg Maine coastal garden. These wasps are huge, nearly two inches long. They look scary, but they rarely sting and quite docile. They make nests in ground burrows.
Wood Nymph butterflies, a pair feeding on nectar of Echinacea, Purple Cone flower in my coastal Maine Phippsburg garden in summer
Wood Nymph butterflies, a pair feeding on nectar of Echinacea, Purple Cone flower in my coastal Maine Phippsburg garden in summer
Wood Nymph butterflies, a pair feeding on nectar of Echinacea, Purple Cone flower in my coastal Maine Phippsburg garden in summer
See photo in original gallery.