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With gratitude for beauty and mystery

November 25, 2014  •  Leave a Comment

It's Thanksgiving week.  What am I grateful for?  For my good health, my family and friends.  I'm grateful for the endless bounty of nature's beauty and mystery.  I am thankful for my good fortune every time I discover and photograph yet another incredible insect.  Some insects stand out as strikingly beautiful; many are fantastic in shape and appearance; still others are as mysterious in gesture and movement as they are in form.  As I look over my pictures from this season, I find it overwhelming to behold so much beauty and wonder all at once.  And being thankful starts all over again.

Leaf beetleLeaf beetleCalligrapha sp.
Order: Coleoptera

Leaf Beetle - Calligrapha species - Great Meadow NWLR, Concord, MA - 9/24/14

 

Green Lacewing - Chocorua, NH - 8/21/14

 

Crane Fly sp.Crane Fly sp.Limoniid sp.

Crane Fly - Drumlin Farm, Lincoln, MA - 8/28/14

 

Green Stink Bug nymph - Great Meadow NWLR Concord, MA - 9/15/14

 

Pelicinid wasp, female - Chocorua, NH - 8/21/14

 

Grapeleaf Skeletonizer Moth - Halibut Point SP, Rockport, MA - 7/13/14

 

 


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