Today’s post brings Erie County, PA Insect Week+ to a close, with a medley of beautiful Hummingbird Clearwing moth and Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly. But worry not, insects will be back! Also coming up, Indigo Bunting, and an overdue return to BIRDS!
In today’s Insect Week+ post, it’s mostly Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) and various Bumble Bees (Bombus genus), plus flowers:
Back to Insect Week+, featuring more bees and butterflies!
Interrupting Insect Week+ for breaking news of a Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel (Callospermophilus lateralis) recently seen outside Pinetop/Lakeside, AZ, exhibiting “cute behavior:”
‘Catch up post’ #2 for Insect Week+, featuring a great medley of amazing Hummingbird Clearwing (Hemaris thysbe) moth x Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) butterfly, all @ flowering Wild Bergamot:
No posts the last couple days due to conflicts with field operations in southern Arizona. So, it’s ‘catch up post’ #1 for Insect Week+, featuring mostly more macro Bumble Bee (Bombus genus):
Yay, a late post with more insects! #insect_week_+
Insect Week+ continues today with more butterflies:
We now return to Insect Week+, day 3, switching over to mostly beautiful butterflies in Erie County, Pennsylvania:
Dateline: 9 August 2026
Interrupting Insect Week+ with breaking news from sunny Arizona, outside the town of Show Low, of BirdingPI.com staff being “beset upon” by wild canids, namely a pack of Coyotes (Canis latrans) near Pintail Lake:
A beautiful female Coyote:
And her 4-5 amazingly cute adolescent pups:
These Coyotes appeared to be visiting the remaining wet portion of the Pintail Lake complex (series of marshes/shallow lakes) for a water break; BirdingPI.com staff happened to be in the vicinity. When the pups in question headed in their direction, it was time to skedaddle oppositely, to avoid any sort of confrontation with these amazingly beautiful wild canines. #nature_wow
