Dragonfly families can typically be distinguished by their eyes. All dragonflies have compound eyes but some families of dragonflies have ...

 The dragonhunter is the largest dragonfly that we have here in the upper Midwest. It has an average length of about 3.3 inches, well shor...

 Last week I saw my first butterflies of 2015. The timing is not much of a surprise. We usually start seeing butterflies as early as late ...

Last Friday was the first day of Spring. Here in Minnesota mid March does not typically look like Spring, especially the past couple of ye...

While dragonflies are fierce predators of the insect world they are often also prey. Many are eaten by larger predators such as birds, but...

 The orange sulphur is a common yellow butterfly that can be found through out most of North America. They are very similar in appearance ...

 Like many people I am not a big of flies. There are approximately 120,000 species of flies in the world and most of the ones that I have ...

The dorcas copper is a small northern butterfly that is typically found around bogs or other wetland areas in Alaska, Canada, and parts o...

The orange-barred sulphur is a large sulphur butterfly found in Florida, south Texas, Mexico, Central America and northern South America. ...

 The Atlantis fritillary is a brushfoot butterfly that is found in Southern Canada, and the northern and eastern United States. They usual...

I know some people who love to chase butterflies but are freaked out when it comes to dragonflies. When I ask them about it I usually get ...

 The elegant crab spider is a ground crab in the genus Xysticus. Instead of catching their prey in a web these spiders are ambush hunters....

The silver-bordered fritillary is medium sized brushfoot butterfly that is found in the northern United States and Canada. It is usually ...

I went out to Crex Meadows yesterday hoping to get some video of butterflies for an upcoming program I am doing. While I out checking t...

The blue bell is a plant that is native to western Europe, particularly the British Isles. It has spread to North America where it is now ...

The blue-eyed darner is a large dragonfly that is typically found in the western US down into Central America. Until the past few years t...

Although this year seems to be a difficult year for photographing butterflies here in Minnesota, because the numbers we are seeing are we...

This weekend I traveled to northwestern Wisconsin to a workshop on photographing butterflies. I was hoping to get an opportunity to photo...