Blooming barrel cacti
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| honey bees |
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| metallic green sweat bees |
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| red ants |
Wildflowers growing on the side of the road
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| desert senna with sweat bee |
Butterflies
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| chrysalises on sweet acacia tree |
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| giant swallowtail flying over citrus tree |
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| giant swallowtail resting on oleander leaf during a rainstorm |
The next five photos (shot through a chain link fence) are of a pipevine swallowtail butterfly on a blooming desert willow tree.
And here's a swallowtail camouflaged on a red bird of paradise flower:
The pictures above are from August and I took the one below in September.
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| pipevine swallowtail on creosote |
Have a good day!
