The Nature Museum here in Chicago shared my picture on their stories! Not bad for a novice photography. Feeling pretty proud of myself today

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📸 100mm ISO100 f14 1/250

Transverse flower fly
(Eristalis transversa)

Happy Fly-day! 🪰

on common milkweed, after rain, earlier this week, on the nature walk outside the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, on Chicago’s north side.

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Silver studded leaf wing
(Captive Hypna clytemnestra)

from June 2024 in Chicago
at the Peggy Notabaert Nature Museum

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Tons of big ants transporting pieces of leaves on a tree branch

Leafcutter ants working their little butts off

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Leaf-cutter cuckoo bee (Coelioxys) on prairie groundsel May 2024 while walking the pathways around Chicago’s Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.

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