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Jim 🇺🇦
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Biologist, very amateur photographer of local flora and fauna. Insatiable curiosity. All photos are my originals except where noted 🇺🇦
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Wand mullein, a non-native plant for #YellowThu It doesn't appear on any invasive lists for Florida, although I have seen it growing in the wild in numerous places. #bloomscrolling #flower #yellow #macro 🌿 🌼
Petals of a yellow wand mullein (Verbascum virgatum) flower are shown against a green background.
January 23, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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For #redwed a hummingbird favorite, coral honeysuckle. #nativeplant #nature #bloomscrolling #wildflower #vine 🌼 🌎
Red tubular flowers of the native vine, coral honey suckle ( Lonicera sempervirens) are shown against a leafy green background
January 22, 2026 at 2:46 AM
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For #flyday a black swallowtail landing on a flower. Taken many moons ago. #butterfly #bugsky #insects #swallowtails #nature #wildlife #eastcoastkin 🦋 🌎
A black swallowtail butterfly (Papilio polyxenes) landing on a flower with a background of plants. Best guess is it's a female based on markings.
January 17, 2026 at 1:28 AM
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My contribution for #birdoftheday is a Great Crested Flycatcher, surveying part of its kingdom(a backyard) by itself. #solitude #birds #nature #eastcoastkin #wildlife 🐦 A beautiful bird.
A great crested flycatcher is shown perching on a wooden fence with another fence in the background,
January 13, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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The native wildflower, bitterweed, has drama unfolding on its flower. Not sure who the aggressor is, but a wasp has the attention of a green lynx spider. #nativeplant #nature #wildflowers #yellow #spiders #bugsky #arachnids 🌎 🕷️ 🌻 #wildlife See ALT for details.
The yellow flower of bitterweed (Helenium amarum) has a green lynx spider( Peucetia viridens) focusing on an unknown wasp on the underside of the flower. . The background is the green narrow leaves of the bitterweed. These plants were growing through cracks of WW2 vintage asphalt. Green lynx spiders live entirely on plants and are perfectly adapted to blend in with leaves.
January 13, 2026 at 3:04 AM
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Another wetland plant that became a favorite of mine: the carnivorous Hooded Pitcherplant, this one in bloom. All of the leaves they produce turn into pitchers. #wildflower #nativeplant #nature #wetland 🌎 #Florida #eastcoastkin #carnivorous #pitcherplant
The yellow flower of the hooded pitcherplant (Sarracenia minor) is in the background with a reddish tinted pitcher in the foreground. Found in nitrogen-poor soils.
January 12, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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Since I only normally post plants and animals, I'm using this as an excuse to show the Atlantic Ocean from A1A in Palm Beach. These are sea grapes, a native Florida plant found frequently along the beaches. #nativeplants #nature #ocean #beach #Florida #sky
Green sea grape plants (Coccoloba uvifera) are shown against a backdrop of the ocean with a partly cloudy sky
January 11, 2026 at 1:24 AM
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Another plant I found yearly in bog/wetland conditions is the Orange milkwort. #nativeplant #wildflowers #bogs #wetlands #bloomscrolling #eastcoastkin #orange
An orange milkwort flower is shown growing in the wild against a green background. Senega lutea in the Polygalaceae plant family
January 8, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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Candyroot, a plant I found in bog/wetland conditions year after year. #wildflowers #bogs #nativeplants #nature #bloomscrolling #eastcoastkin #yellowThu 🌼 🌎 🌿
Candyroot (Senega nana) a bright yellow bog plant is shown against its waxy green leaves and other green grasses. Roots are purported to taste like licorice
January 8, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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We had a very powerful storm which knocked down several trees in my neighborhood. I noticed a yellow leaf on one of the trees. It was an imperial moth female still hanging on to the fallen tree branch. Look closely for its antennae. #mothmonday #bugsky #nature #moths #inverts #insects
A large yellowish imperial moth (Eacles imperialis) is hanging onto a brown branch of a downed water oak tree creating a green background.
January 6, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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Fiery Skipper on a turkey tangle fogfruit blossom. Fogfruits are important larval host plants to several species of butterflies. They are a great perennial groundcover in a yard. 🦋 🌿🌼 #butterflies #nativeplant #nature #wildlife #bugsky #insects #naturephotography
A tan, small fiery skipper butterfly (Hylephila phyleus) is shown resting on the blossom of an important native plant, turkey tangle fogfruit (Phyla nodiflora).
January 3, 2026 at 11:19 PM
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For #flyday here's a damselfly on the leaf litter of a forest floor. It was watching me closely. #bugsky #insects #nature #damselfly #wildlife
A damselfly is shown perched on a green plant leaf against a background of brown leaf litter on a forest floor.
January 2, 2026 at 11:33 PM
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A first for me, a Seminole Texas crescent visiting climbing asters a few weeks ago. Some butterfly taxonomists consider it to be a subspecies of the Texas crescent. #butterfly 🦋 #nature #wildlife #bugsky #insects #invertebrates #naturalscience
A butterfly with differing shades of brown, tan, and orange perched on a lavender colored flower
December 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Perennial beach sunflower next to my walkway, photo taken a few hours ago. I highly recommend this pollinator friendly native plant. It's been blooming all year and requires little care. #sunflower #nativeplant #bloomscrolling #nature 🌻🐝🦋
A bright yellow beach sunflower in bloom in late December. Requires little care and will grow in sandy soil and is drought resistant. Attracts many pollinators. (Helianthus debilis)
December 27, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Coral bean flowers and seeds. A native deciduous and perennial plant whose tubular flowers attract hummingbirds and bumblebees. The vivid red seeds are poisonous. #redwed #nativeplants #wildflowers #nature #bloomscrolling #seeds
Red tubular flowers of coral bean (Erythrina herbacea) against a leaf litter background Red poisonous seeds of coral berry still attached to the plant as of December
December 25, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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This wheel bug was seen last week. It's a crested species of predaceous assassin bug that can spew noxious liquid and its bite is worse than a wasp's sting. Otherwise, it's a beneficial insect. #bugsky #insects #invertebrates
A wheel bug (Arilus cristatus) is shown grasping on to a house exterior. Note the crest, which is an identifying characteristic
December 22, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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My contribution to #smallbirdsaturday a barn swallow seen very up close. According to literature, it is a widespread species. #birds #nature #wildlife 🪶 🐦 #photography
A barn swallow seen up close (Hirundo rustica). A small bird with purplish/black back with a orange throat and forehead. Nesting in the roof supports of a covered parking area which made it approachable.
December 21, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Bee fly visiting a native evening primrose. #flyday #bugsky #insects #nativeplants #nature 🪰 #invertebrates
Bee fly (Sparnopolius sp.) visiting a yellow native evening primrose flower (Oenothera sp.)
December 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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A six-lined racerunner that I found in conjunction with gopher tortoises (well-drained sandy soils). I was fortunate to get this shot, as they are extremely fast. 🦎 #herps #reptiles #nature #wildlife #lizards
A six-lined racerunner lizard found in sandy soils, characterized by six bright lines running lengthwise on their dorsal surface. Aspidoscelis sexlineatus. They are very quick and are insectivores.
December 15, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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In bloom in my yard this week: Billbergia, an epiphytic bromeliad from South America 🌼 #epiphyte #bromeliad #nature #bloomscrolling
An epiphytic bromeliad is shown with red carpels, and purple petals with a white stripe. Maybe Billbergia nutans species.
December 14, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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For #redwed , Jatropha, a non-native shrub planted in my yard that originates from Cuba. It's flower is not that showy, but blooms throughout the year. Not considered to be an invasive plant, and is growing with very little care. It's my kind of plant.
Euphorbia plant family. #bloomscrolling 🌼
A bright red flower from a Jatropha integerrima plant with its leaves off to the left background.
December 11, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Because climbing asters were still in bloom as of last week, I was still seeing numerous insects that were new to me. One of the most photogenic was this hover fly. #bugsky #insects #invertebrates #nature 🪰
A black and yellow insect with abdominal stripes is shown perched on a lavender flower. Suggested species is Palpada pusilla, a hover fly.
December 10, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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A false foxglove flower, native wildflower in Florida. Common buckeye caterpillars (see previous posts) feed on the narrow leaves of this plant, but oddly, I have never seen them visit the flowers. #nativeplants #wildflowers #macro #nature 🌼🌿 #bloomscrolling
Pink/purple False foxglove blossom with spots of purple deep within the fringed flower with a background of its narrow plant leaves. There are several species native to the state of Florida (genus Agalinis).
December 8, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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A photo from a few falls ago of the common buckeye butterfly caterpillar. This one is on a false foxglove plant. They gain some degree of negative taste or toxicity to predators by consuming these plants. 🦋🌱 🐛 #butterflies #nature #caterpillar #bugsky #invertebrate #insect
A multi-colored butterfly caterpillar with bristles is shown on a green false foxglove plant against a green background. The caterpillar has bluish tint bristles with patches of orange/brown and longitudinal cream-white dots on each segment.
December 8, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Common buckeye showing a little late-season wear, but still brilliant colors. This was taken earlier this week in a patch of climbing asters in my yard that has proven to be a pollinator-magnet. #butterflies #insects #pollinator #bugsky #nature #wildlife🦋
Brownish common buckeye butterfly with eye-spots on wings. Junonia coenia. Known to migrate southward as cooler fall temperatures arrive in its summer habitat.
December 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM