August 2026             (Hit F11 to view full frame)

Coded locations for the following photos may be found on each photo under the date.

ABSP=Abita Springs, LA
ACFP=Abita Creek Flatwood Preserve
MET=Metairie, LA
NNC=Northlake Nature Center, Mandeville, LA

1
Robber Fly

2
Robber Fly

3
Female Blue Dasher

4
Adult male Common Whitetail

5
Female Amanda's Pennant

6
Female Amanda's Pennant

7
Female Wild Indigo Duskywing

8
Female Calico Pennant

9
Female Calico Pennant

10
American Crow

11
American Crow
close-up

12
Brown Thrasher

13
Virginia Opossum
on the bird feeder

14
Obscure Bird Grasshopper
by Richard Bejarano

15
Atlantic Grasshopper

16
Older female Roseate Skimmer

17
Male Needham's Skimmer

18
Male Tiphiid Wasp

19
Male Amanda's Pennant

20
Bee Fly
(Chrysanthrax cypris)

21
Female Ebony Jewelwing

22
Praying Mantis

23
Praying Mantis
close-up

24
Rough Green Snake

25
Rough Green Snake
close-up

26
Immature male Eastern Pondhawk

27
Young Virginia Opossum

28
Female Eastern Amberwing obelesking
(underside view)

29
Female Amanda's Pennant

30
Female Amanda's Pennant

31
American Bird Grasshopper

32
Robber Fly

33
Robber Fly

34
Male Blue Dasher with ant

35
Male Blue Dasher with ant
close-up

36
Green Lynx Spider

37
Green Treefrog


38
"Abdomen Envy"

39
Female Common Green Darner (laying eggs?)

40
Female or imm. male Great Blue Skimmer
with Love Bug

41
Female or imm. male Great Blue Skimmer
with Love Bug

42
Male Ebony Jewelwing

43
Female Ebony Jewelwing

44
Ebony Jewelwings mating
(male on left, female on right)

45
Silver-spotted Skipper

46
Silver-spotted Skipper

47
Female Spicebush Swallowtail

48
Female Wild Indigo Duskywing

49
Blue Dasher catches fly...drops fly

50
Twig Ant picks up fly...runs away.

51
Female Ruby-throated Hummingbird

52
Artsy female Ruby-throated Hummingbird

53
Female Ruby-throated Hummingbird

54
Partial lunar eclipse

55
Female Ruby-throated Hummingbird

56
Carolina Satyr

57
Male Spicebush Swallowtail

58
Red-spotted Purple

59
Five-banded Thynnid Wasp
      To view two montages of these shots please click
HERE
and find Panels
8 and 9.