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Ontario Butterflies and Moths

Small Sets of Butterfly Scales By Species

I collect my butterflies and many of my other insect specimens along the roads and…

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Ontario Butterflies and Moths

Clearwing Hummingbird Moth

While beautiful, these hummingbird moths are morphological oddities. They make me think of what we…

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Feathers

Songbirds Under the Microscope

Our vehicular traffic slaughters everything in its path. We pretend this is OK because we…

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Ontario Butterflies and Moths

Focused on Features

I particularly enjoy examining the intricate structures of insects and other invertebrates. In this post…

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Ontario Butterflies and Moths

Monarch Butterfly Scales

August 2021 Update. Monarch butterfly feet! Also the edge of an eye and a few…

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Plants Fungi and Lichens

Focus Stacked Lichens

This page contains an assortment of my focus stacked photos of lichens, mosses and a…

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Ontario Butterflies and Moths

The Painted Lady Butterfly

On thinking about it, there are few species of butterflies I don’t love, but Vanessa…

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Ontario Butterflies and Moths

The Mourning Cloak Butterfly

The Mourning Cloak butterfly (Nymphalis antiopa) is one of my all time favourites. They’re so…

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Ontario Butterflies and Moths

Sulfur and Cabbage Butterflies

They used to be so common we wouldn’t even notice them, or if we did,…

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Ontario Butterflies and Moths

Red Admirals and Wood Nymphs

These are two more of our iconic Ontario butterflies. I remember them vividly from childhood.…

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Ontario Butterflies and Moths

Black Swallowtail Butterfly

I feel lucky to have found examples of both the caterpillar and butterfly of Papilio…

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Other Stuff

Miscellaneous Macro Photos

This post is just a dump of some of my favourite photos on the macro…

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Ontario Butterflies and Moths

Compton’s Tortoiseshell Butterfly Scales

Plants Fungi and Lichens

Leaf Textures

The respiratory organs of trees are gifts that yield interesting subjects at any time of…

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Other Ontario Insects

The Green Sweat Bee

Like little dancing emeralds, Green Sweat Bees (Agapostemon texanus) are one of the small joys…

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Other Ontario Insects

Dragonfly Wings

On some scales, the wings of dragonflies look like rows of decorative wrought iron bars…

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Plants Fungi and Lichens

Ontario Weeds and Wildflowers

I enjoy flowers and plant parts as subjects, but I find they often don’t survive…

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Ontario Butterflies and Moths

Eyes of Flies, Moths, Grasshoppers and More.

There are few natural structures more fascinating to us than eyes. I think this is…

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Other Stuff

Miscellaneous Focus Stacks

I’ve decided this page can hold some stacks I’d like to share, but that may…

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Plants Fungi and Lichens

A Few Fungi

I don’t have nearly enough photos of fungi. I’ll have to work on that. Below…

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