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@grays.art
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Barely edited nature photos.
Native beauty that lives despite us.
Hope you ♥️ spiders, bugs, birds & flowers!

📸 Daily original photo(s)
📸 Live critters
📸 In-the-field, manual, hand-held
📸 No tripod, studio, stacking, nor AI
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Gray @grays.art · Aug 2
Intro

Felicitations.
Thanks for visiting my nature photos.
Yes, my given name is Gray.
Further info is divided into sections comprised of comments, and sub-comments below this pinned post.

⚠️ This is an arthropod safe zone: we treat other Earthlings with respect, as conscious beings, and guides.
Male dark-veined longhorn bee (melissodes trinodis) on a sunflower petal, seeming to point the way. This way, to more nature photos, and maybe some hints as to what this world looks like from the perspective of other Earthlings who’ve been here billions of generations longer than human beings, the newcomers, carpetbaggers, immigrants, and aliens. Photo taken one evening in the golden hour of the summer of 2024, on a sunflower I grew in the 2x3 area next to my back porch. 📸 canon r5 iso100 f11 1/250
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Spined soldier bug nymph
(Podisus maculiventris)

feeding on a black firefly
(Lucidota atra)

West Ridge nature preserve 7-6-25
Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood

#twosDay #twoforTuesday #eastcoastkin #bugsky #insects #bugs #nature #macro #photography #macroPhotography #chicago #Coleoptera #art
On a stage of a green leaf, a gold, white and red ovoid beetle has pierced the red-spotted head of a black firefly in the foreground.
February 10, 2026 at 5:15 AM
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Cool, NanLeah 😎
February 10, 2026 at 4:24 AM
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Thanks! 🙏🏼
February 10, 2026 at 3:55 AM
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Thanks, Beth! ⛵️ 🖖🏼
February 10, 2026 at 3:53 AM
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Thanks again Will
February 10, 2026 at 3:51 AM
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Thanks, Mel ☺️
February 10, 2026 at 3:51 AM
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Thanks, Ray!
February 10, 2026 at 3:51 AM
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Thanks, Mike 🙏🏼
Yah— wee flyin lobstah 🦞
February 10, 2026 at 3:50 AM
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Thanks, Den.
February 10, 2026 at 3:49 AM
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Lovely, Den 😻🖖🏼
February 10, 2026 at 3:48 AM
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Thanks, Robyn!
February 10, 2026 at 3:47 AM
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James Brown’s People get up and drive your funky soul (from Motherlode) is a reliable banger.

youtu.be/Nl-RVIdTUVI
People Get Up And Drive Your Funky Soul (Remix)
YouTube video by James Brown - Topic
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February 10, 2026 at 3:43 AM
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Yes! 😻
February 9, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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Gorgeous, Ray 😻
February 9, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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Morning, Susan ☕️

Thanks for the #bluebrew

Planning to re-caffeinate ⚡️ on the way to the airport, returning to Bonita Springs this morning from Chicago.

Hope your Monday proves a swell start to your week. 😸🖖🏼🤗
February 9, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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Cool photo, Will 😎
February 9, 2026 at 11:11 AM
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Is it Mothday, already?

Ithaca Clearwing Moth
(Carmenta ithacae)

on ornamental grass blade 7-9-25
in Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood

Approximate wingspan: 5/8” (1.6cm)

#macroMonday #eastcoastkin #bugsky #macro #photography #macrophotography #moths #Lepidoptera #chicago #insects #bugs #art
Small, day-flying moth (5/8 to 11/16 inch) that mimics a wasp, featuring a slender, iridescent blue-black body, thin yellow collar, and transparent, scale-free wings.
February 9, 2026 at 6:36 AM
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Thanks!
My first sighting of one of these.
February 8, 2026 at 10:32 PM
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Thanks, Liv
February 8, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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Thank you, Audrey.

This was one of those photos taken at such a distance that I couldn’t ID the bird until I got home and moved the image to a larger screen.
February 8, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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Looking forward to seeing the games your class invents.
February 8, 2026 at 10:28 PM
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Slept another 4 hours!
Needed it. Traveling this weekend.
Headed home tomorrow.
February 8, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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Thanks Will— back to sleep 😴
February 8, 2026 at 10:03 AM
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Woody the Red-headed woodpecker
(Melanerpes erythrocephalus)

CREW Penn Flint Strand trails
in Bonita Springs, Florida 1-20-26

Alan & Rob’s #birdOfTheDay theme today is #posted a bird on a post or fence. The alt is #red any bird with color red. #birds #photography #EastCoastKin #Stunday #birding
Pictured on the side of a pine against a light blue sunny sky, a tricolored bird with a black back and tail, a white belly and rump, and a red head and neck, with black wings and white secondary remiges.
February 8, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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Hump-backed beewolf wasp
(Philanthus gibbosus)

on New Jersey Tea
(Ceanothus americanus)

7-7-25
in Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood
Wasp length is about 10mm (.4”)

#stunDay #eastcoastkin #flowers #nature #shrubs #native #insects #macro #photography #macroPhotography #bugsky #bugs #chicago #art
Full body profile of small and robust, blue-eyed wasp with an especially broad head, a coat of chitin that is shiny black, with yellow spots on the head, and yellow stripes on the abdomen and thorax, with very large, deep punctures on its abdomen, with horizontal diaphanous wings held together, nectaring on small yellowed, white flower spires, with a detailed background of a New Jersey tea leaf.
February 8, 2026 at 9:43 AM