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Crab Spider and Poppy Mallow
I have a hard time walking past purple poppy mallow when I’ve got my camera in hand. I have plenty of photos of the flower already, and I’m not sure there are many angles I haven’t explored (see last...
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Photo of the Week – May 3, 2012
This little jumping spider was hanging out on an almost-blooming shell leaf penstemon plant this afternoon. I happened to spot it as I was walking by, and stopped to see if it would sit for a...
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Photo of the Week – May 17, 2012
It’s amazing what you can find when you’re crawling around on the ground… A wolf spider stares at me as I take its (her?) photo. The Nature Conservancy’s Platte River Prairies, Nebraska. The leg span...
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Photo of the Week – September 13, 2012
Antlion! One of the most nightmarish creatures most people have never seen… When dislodged from its trap, an antlion might sit still just long enough for a photo before backing down into the loose...
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Photo of the Week – June 27, 2013
The wind finally let up enough to do some close-up photography last weekend, so I went to a small prairie here in town and wandered a bit. Among numerous curiosities was the abundance of a tiny...
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What’s Bugging Milkweed?
As I walked a small prairie here in Aurora, Nebraska a few weeks ago, several species of milkweed were flowering abundantly, including butterfly milkweed (Ascelepias tuberosa), showy milkweed...
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Photo of the Week – September 4, 2014
It’s not often the wind is calm enough to get a good sharp photo of a spider in its web, but everything came together nicely late last week as I walked around one of our restored wetlands. There were...
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A Hole New Mystery to Consider
On my last trip to the Niobrara Valley Preserve, I photographed the bark of wildfire-killed pine trees in warm late day light. I liked both the patterns and the color and was just trying to make some...
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Antlion Timelapse
Three years ago, I wrote a blog post on antlions, fantastic little creatures that live along the base of my house (and elsewhere in the world, I’m sure). I moved to a new house last year, and was...
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Photo of the Week – July 6, 2017
When photographing invertebrates, I can split most critters into two categories: those that hunker down and those that flee. Those that hunker down are awfully nice because I can set up and photograph...
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