SE Wisconsin native plant gardener🦋, habitat enthusiast🌿, casual nature photographer, hiker, plane watcher, oval racing fan. Mainly using Bluesky to document the nature in my yard and elsewhere. Please plant #NativePlants
JB | Native Plant Gardener (WI)
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These guys are really cool. I found one up at Bender Park a couple years ago and had no idea what it was until I looked it up. Haven't been able to find another one yet.
A juvenile male widow skimmer dragonfly (Libellula luctuosa) in the backyard today. #dragonflies #Odonata #Illinois #nature #macro #photography #wildlifephotography #photographylovers
James Gryboski
More photos from Hawthorn Hollow Nature Sanctuary.
#nativeplants #nature #Wisconsin
A halloween pennant in the Smolenski park prairie restoration.
#odonata #dragonfly #prairie #nature #Wisconsin
Pretty cool markings on this round-necked longhorn beetle. I've never seen this species before. This was along the wooded edge of a prairie restoration at Hawthorn Hollow Nature Sanctuary.
#beetle #insect #nature #Wisconsin #nativeplants
We caught a brief rain shower right before sunset so I headed to my prairie as soon as it was over.
Back In The Yard
I didn't even know about this monarch caterpillar until today. That makes seven that I've found so far this year.
#nativeplants #garden #gardening #Wisconsin
Temperate grasslands are one of the most endangered ecosystems in the world . We had maybe 200 million acres of tallgrass prairie in North America. This specific prairie is probably 8,000 years old. Just a few of them left at this level.
JB | Native Plant Gardener (WI)
JB | Native Plant Gardener (WI)
JB | Native Plant Gardener (WI)
JB | Native Plant Gardener (WI)
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I just had an Eastern wood-pewee hanging out in my native garden and calling. 😀
#birds #nativeplants
JB | Native Plant Gardener (WI)
Always love visiting Hawthorn Hollow Nature Sanctuary! Penstemon digitalis was putting on a show!
#nativeplants #nature #Wisconsin
