Welcome to Insect Week+

With BirdingPI.com staff out in Arizona, it’s time to kick off “Insect Week+,” featuring, as might be expected, insects in Erie County, Pennsylvania.


“Dragonfly in flight” photography is notoriously difficult, but no trickery here, just an unusually cooperative Spot-winged Glider hovering in place for an extended period @ outer Gull Point:

Spot-winged Glider (Pantala hymenaea)
Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) on Spotted Knapweed (Centaurea stoebe)


Different day/location in Erie County, Pennsylvania, an amazing American Dagger Moth (Acronicta americana) caterpillar: