Small, dark, red beetle with a smooth and glossy black patch covering its elytra. It's on a tri-lobed leaf of passionflower.
Tiny clusters of light green flowers surrounded by showy sepals (bracts?) that are bright white with a green stripe down the midrib. It looks like a portrait of a cluster of four big flowers, but it's really a portrait of four clusters of about 20 tiny flowers. This is the Euphorbia species common known as Snow-on-the-mountain in the Great Plains.
Not exactly sure which skipper butterfly this is, but it's roughly triangular in shape and golden-yellow in color with big, dark eyes. Its antennae are spread laterally and its tiny proboscis is probing into one of maybe 100 narrow, pink flowers forming the spiky inflorescence of a tall thistle.
In my #pollinator patches this weekend where an acre of #Bermudagrass #lawn used to be: #PassionflowerFleaBeetle (#lifer beetle!), Snow-on-the-mountain, and a #skipper #nectaring on #TallThistle.
Plant #natives for #biodiversity! (Or don't; just don't cut 'em when you mow.)
