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Gray Hairstreak and European honey bee enjoying the nectar from Calamint.

Is this an Indian Cupid butterfly? Are they naturalized in the United States? I'm in Eastern Kansas.

Mrs. Monarch just laid this egg plus others on my showy milkweed. It's the first time I've seen them doing it and taken a picture of the egg. Eastern Kansas.

American bumblebee looking for yummies on my Blue Boa hyssop.

This is the 2nd fig from my containerized fig bush. I'm getting about every 4 days. First year fruiting. It was absolutely delicious. So much better than bought ones. It was supposed to be berry/honey/jam flavor and it is exactly that. Eastern Kansas.

I believe this is a Cloudless sulfur on my Mexican sunflower. It really doesn't seem to mind the 110 Fahrenheit heat index.

The first time I've captured apicture of this quick little guy. He's about a centimeter long and is feeding on salvia nectar I imagine. Can anyone help identify this wasp? Eastern Kansas

Eastern Kansas. Is this an odd looking wasp on this Redbud leaf. It's less than a cm long.

First Sneezeweed flowers on a glorious 5 foot plant that I planted in early June. Small native bees already all over it.

Eastern Kansas.

Just curious if anyone else grows this fig and what their impression is. So far it's a beautiful plant and has 32 figs on it for its first fruiting year.

Man, they are a mess flying together. Wasp was the third wheel, I guess.

Can I get help on this wasp ID? Eastern Kansas. Clustered mountain mint plant.

Double-banded Scoliid Wasp, I think, visiting Pycnanthemum muticum. So many foraging wasps love the mountain mint.

Very cool wasp buzzing around Calamint with the bees. Is it a gold marked thread waisted wasp? Eastern Kansas.

Got this picture of a zebra swallowtail resting on a window frame. What a beautiful butterfly. Eastern Kansas.