The Wheel Bug (ARILUS CRISTATUS), is a large assassin bug found from Canada to Central America. It is a prized garden resident with a voracious appetite, especially for caterpillars. It can inflict an extremely painful bite, considered worse than a wasp. #insects #wheelbug #assassinbug #arthropods

Laughing gull (Leucophaeus atricilla). This new world gull exhibits, like many shore birds and conservatives, kleptoparasitism. Laughing all the way. #gulls #shorebirds #floridabirds #laughinggulls

Limpkin (Aramus guarauna). These birds are related to cranes and rails, but are the only extant member of their family. They are mollusk eaters that specialize in aquatic snails. Very approachable birds. #limpkin #wetlandbirds #floridabirds #wadingbirds #floridawildlife #birds

White Peacock butterfly (Anartia jatrophae). Found throughout SE US, Central and much of S. America. Gainesville, Fl #butterflies #butterfly #whitepeacock #floriadainsects #floridabutterflies #floridawildlife

Tomb of Frédéric Chopin in Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris France. It depicts Euterpe, muse of music, weeping over a broken lyre. Actually, this the tomb of most of him. His heart is in a jar of alcohol in Warsaw Poland. He was afraid of being buried alive, so asked his doc to remove it on his death.

Sandhill cranes (Antigone canadensis pratensis). Paynes Prairie State Park. Gainesville FL. #cranes #sandhillcranes #floridacranes #floridabirds #wetlandbirds

Double breasted cormorant (Nannopterum auritum). Looks to be a juvenile. Gainesville, FL #cormorant #aquaticbirds #divingbirds #floridabirds #floridawildlife

Indian blanket (Gaillardia pulchella) flower is also known as Sundance flower or Firewheel.

Delta scarab beetle (Trigonopeltastes delta) breeding on an Arrow arum (Peltandra virginica) blossom. #scarab #scarabbeetle #wetlands #arrowheadplant #arrowarum #florida #floridawildlife #insects #floridainsects #gainesvilleflorida

North Florida fall #vines #fallcolors #fall #jacksonvillefl

Cloudless sulpur butterfly (Phoebis sennae) on a cobbler pegs flower (Bidens pilosa).

An adult American white ibis (Eudocimus albus). Do you know when the they are foraging together they make a low muffled grunts? #ibis #wadingbirds #wetlandbirds #marshbirds

Monument Valley Tribal Park, Navajo Nation. View is also called Forrest Gump point.

Golden domed city hall in the background and the docked Georgia Queen in the foreground. Savannah, Georgia.

Rainy Sunday setting up at dawn. Jacksonville, FL #photos #florida #clouds #morninglight

Sunbeams on fabric.

Here are two photos of a relatively rare phenotype found on this Eastern Gray Squirrel doe...the ring-tail. I've seen it twice. Once in Gainesville,FL and now here in Jacksonville, FL. Not sure that it's more common in Florida, maybe I notice these things more now that I am retired.

Talmadge Memorial Bridge and the Port of Savannah Georgia at dusk.

No surprise, but real education is dead in Florida, especially anything in the liberal arts. Florida residents who care about their college bound kids should think long and hard about sending them to public colleges.

This is a real screen capture. Not sure it wasn't intentionally done by a subversive person at HULU. It sure is too close to for comfort these days.

Here's a nice lichen knocked loose during a T-storm. Jacksonville FL

Just to emphasize, Trump et. al. just murdered 11 people just to distract from the fact that he is a pedophile and the evidence is in the Epstein files.

I'm watching the Tour of Britain (cycling). School has just started back. As the racers come through hamlets and villages, the teachers pause classes for school children come out to cheer them on. In the US schools, teachers pause classes to rehearse active shooter drills. Goddamn.

Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) eating a mushroom for breakfast. (I had to shoot through my patio screen so as to not startle the fella, hence the soft focus). Jacksonville, FL.

One of my brother's newest composition. tickertonsprigh.bandcamp.com/track/demete...

Tricolored Heron (Egretta tricolor) is found in coastal US from Gulf of Mexico to New England, throughout the state of Florida, much of the Carribbean, Mexico, and coastal northern South America. A medium sized heron and fish eater. #wadingbird #heron #tricoloredheron #floridabirds #floridawildlife

American Osprey (Pandion haliaetus). Ospreys are not closely related to eagles or hawks (insert sports joke), and they are the only extant species of their family. They are one of the most globally widespread species, found on all continents but Antarctica.

The subtle beauty of the smallest of things. Stage 4 C made me realized how much I have missed in my life while focusing on or worrying about stupid shit. #geometridmoths #inchworms #insects #caterpillars

Since I focused on zoology, I'm not very adept at identifying plants. This plant is in my neighbors yard. She thinks it is some type of lily. It is a large plant that currently stands 4-5 feet tall. Looks like an ornamental. Anyone recognize it? This is in Jacksonville Florida.

Florida is great for dynamic cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds. Makes for some good photos to manipulate, especially converting them to B&W images.#clouds #cloudphotography

These appear to be the eggs of the Green Lacewing, Ceraeochrysa smithi. The droplets seem of function as an ant repellent. The eggs will hatch into voracious small predatory larva that feed on aphids, caterpillars and other insects. #lacewings #greenlacewing #insects #insecteggs

Here are my pics of the Omaha Beach Memorial and the Normandy American Cemetery. It was sobering reading the names and ages of the soldiers. (this was back when we fought and died fighting fascist instead of electing them). #omahabeach #dday #ww2 #veterans #normandy

La Vallée des Saints, Brittany France. #lavalleedessaints #sculpture #brittanyfrance #artists #granitesculptures #france #art

All of these statutes represent Saints primarily from Brittany. Eventually, the curators of this site plan to have over one thousand of these statutes erected on site. La Vallée des Saints, Brittany France. #lavalleedessaints #sculpture #brittanyfrance #artists #granitesculptures #france #art

La Vallée des Saints, Brittany France. #lavalleedessaints #sculpture #brittanyfrance #artists #granitesculptures #france #art

One of over a hundred sculptures in La Vallée des Saints, Brittany France. A very magical place. More to come. #lavalleedessaints #sculpture #brittanyfrance #artists #granitesculptures #france #art

Beautiful city park in Fougeres, Brittany, France. #brittany #france

Dawn at Monument Valley Tribal Park, Navajo Nation. #MonumentValley #monumentvalleynavajotribalpark #desert #desertphotography #desertphotoshoot

Abandoned shop along the rail-to-trail bike/hiking path in Gainesville, FL. I really miss biking on that. #oldbuilding #GainesvilleFL #gainesvilleflorida #dilapidated

Here is a pic of a bumblebee (Bombus pensylvanicus) harvesting nectar and pollen from a flower. Hope this makes your day brighter whatever you are going through. #bumblebee #bees #flowers #floridabee #floridainsects

In accordance with the new FCC anti-DEI Rules, all televised team sporting events will only be broadcast if all non-white players are pixelated. Those pixelated players can only be referred to only as "DEI" followed by their jersey number. /s

Boating on the Saint John's river near the naval base. #boating #jacksonvillefl #naturephotos #rivers

American Alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) congregating on the banks of the La Chua Trail, Paynes Prairie State Park, Gainesville, FL. A group of alligators is actually called a "congregation". Their range extends from eastern North Carolina to Oklahoma and down to northern Mexico.

Snowy Egret (Egretta thula) hunting for prey in a stream at Depot Park, Gainesville FL.

Dawn moments. Monument Valley Park, Navajo Nation.

Sunrise over Totem Pole formation. Monument Valley Park, Navajo Nation.

Turkey Tail mushrooms (Trametes versicolor)

Antelope Canyon

Green Treefrog (Hyla cinerea). Usually these frogs are ver hard to spot, mostly hiding in lush greenery. This fella apparently did not read the Treefrog user manual "Camouflage: Why you have it and how you use it."