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John Gerrath
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Plant Ecologist in Ohio. Formerly Michigan. Formerly Canada.
Bugs are cool, birds too.
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Nice Muscoid fly on a Sun Choke leaf!
#Invertefest
A sunny day in Ohio sees a little black and gray Muscoid fly (Eutrichota sp.?) sitting on a Sun Choke leaf in North-East Ohio.
August 30, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Found these bees sleeping in my sunflowers on a warm Ohio morning.
A photo of a Woodland Sunflower with three small bees (maybe sweat bees) asleep amongst the flower petals. The sun has just risen and the bees sparkle in the early Ohio morning light.
July 28, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Night, night everyone!
Small kitten with black patches over white fur sleeps very cutely on a pile of laundry.
October 26, 2024 at 4:59 AM
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A little Spring Peeper rests on a Willow leaf.
A tiny spring peeper frog sits on a green willow leaf. You can see the leg stripes and back cross markings. It's cute!
August 31, 2024 at 2:55 AM
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#InverteFest An ant quietly takes a long drink from a Daisy.
A large black ant carefully drinks from one of the yellow flowers in the center of a white daisy.
August 25, 2024 at 9:57 PM
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#InverteFest Lots of great Soldier Beetle activity amongst the sunflowers and coneflowers today!
Some sort of orange -yellow soldier beetle, with black spots and stripes, standing on the bright yellow petals of a sunflower.
August 25, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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#InverteFest Nice Carpenter Bee on the sage flowers!
Close-up of a large bee, probably a carpenter bee since the abdomen is shiny smooth, the bee is busy sipping nectar from a purple sage flower.
August 25, 2024 at 9:49 PM
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Nice hoverfly resting on the basil!
Hoverfly perched on the edge of a basil leaf.
August 20, 2024 at 12:36 AM
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Lots of action in the North-East Ohio sky!!
Red-purple greenish streaks and blobs of aurora across the sky over some tall trees and an American flag near Akron in Ohio. Blue streaks of aurora to the north of Akron in Ohio.
May 11, 2024 at 2:32 AM
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Mind kind of blown that the Milkweed Seed Bugs in our garden are clumping together and ACTUALLY look vaguely like clumps of milkweed seeds!!
A small clump of Milkweed Seed Bugs, gathered together on a Swamp Milkweed leaf in our suburban garden. Wide view of Swamp Milkweed plant in garden, with clumps of Milkweed Seed Bugs on leaves. Clumps of Milkweed seeds in open pods are seen above, and all the clumps (bugs and seeds) look vaguely alike!
September 17, 2023 at 1:40 PM
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Sweater cats!!
Our two cats (one a ginger, the other a black dwarf) in handsome sweaters. They are unhappy.
August 18, 2023 at 11:10 PM