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Wow, this is a stunning and unique photo of our town! I think it should be shared widely… or maybe it is? 👍🤔😊

I’m sorry. Maybe he’ll come back. 🫶

Nice! Georgia O’Keeffe comes to mind.

That blue is tickling my optic nerves! 💙

I love this portrait with such incredible detail. You’re a very talented artist, if you don’t mind me saying so.

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A surreal and beautiful image. Nicely done!

Nice photos of this little beauty! Can you provide a general location?

Looks like a Robber Fly (Asilidae) with its prey.

Thank you!

Thank you!

Powder-blue dragonfly in green grass with black and white splotches on its outstretched wings.

Powder-blue dragonfly in green grass with black and white splotches on its outstretched wings. Red circles have been drawn to highlight the eight dark splotches that give this dragonfly its name -- Eight-spotted Skimmer.

This here is a dragonfly called an Eight-spotted Skimmer. So, not being an Odonata-ologist and after a bit of research I found that you count the dark splotches on all four of the wings (not the white opaque spots) to make sense of the name. Hope this helps--it helped me anyway! 🤗 #bugsky 🌿

Even in death they keep their radiance. I love these beetles.

Nice picture! Yellow-collard scape moth?

Very nice composition!

I love these beautiful, delicate-looking damselflies. Actually not a dragonfly, the best way to tell the difference IMO is how they hold there wings at rest. Damselflies hold their wings straight along their back, while dragonflies hold their wings perpendicular to their body like an airplane. 💙💙💙

Wow, crazy shot! I love the 8 eyes!!

Black, narrow-waisted wasp with orange midriff on head of small white flowers - Common thread-waisted wasp. Southwestern BC, Canada.

Black and yellow wasp in mid-flight - European paper wasp. Southwestern BC, Canada.

Black, narrow-waisted wasp on white flowers - Mexican grass-carrying wasp. Southwestern BC, Canada.

Black and orange, narrow-waisted wasp on white flowers - Great golden digger wasp. Southwestern BC, Canada.

So many different kinds of wasps--all (and more) in the backyard herb garden! Tentative IDs: 1) Common Thread-waisted wasp, 2) European Paper Wasp, 3) Mexican Grass-carrying Wasp, 4) Great Golden Digger Wasp. Please let me know if I need to fix any IDs. #bugsky #wasps #hymenoptera #bcbugs 🌿 🐝

Dark brown and yellow-striped fly looking like a wasp on green budding out parsley flower heads.

Dark brown and yellow-striped fly looking like a wasp on green budding out parsley flower heads.

This, believe it or not, is a fly! Specifically, it is a representative of a genus (Spilomyia) of hoverflies that are experts in wasp mimicry. They look mean, but are actually harmless and beneficial pollinators. Found on parsley flowers in the backyard herb garden. 🌿 #bugsky #waspmimic

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Very nice. Looks like we were taking photos of that picturesque moon at the very same time!

Very nice. 👍😊

Nice catch… from both perspectives!

Really nice capture! I love these little, speedy moths. 😊

Sliver moon setting over a mountain range with a slight reddish sky.

Dramatic clouds in a nighttime sky with silhouette trees in the foreground.

Nice #moonset tonight over the Olympic Mountains across the Puget Sound in Washington followed by some later amazing nighttime cloud effects.🌛🌠🌿 #moon #clouds

Butterfly shown resting in the green needles of a fir tree. The butterfly's wings have ragged dark edges with the upper side of the wings (pictured) having various shades of orange with black spots and blotches.

Side view of a butterfly shown resting in the green needles of a fir tree. The butterfly's wings have ragged dark edges with the upper side of the wings having various shades of orange with black spots and blotches.

Pretty much at the northern terminus of its North American distribution, this beautiful California Tortoiseshell (Nymphalis californica) was seen in a sub-alpine area of Manning Provincial Park in southwest British Columbia a couple of weeks ago. 🌿 #bugsky #butterfly

I love the sweet scent of butterfly bush flowers. I can almost smell them now. Thank you!

Slate-blue bird with long legs and toes standing on a rotting log with out-of-focus rocks and water in the background. It's yellowish bill indicates a non-breeding adult or juvenile.

Check out this American dipper's long legs and feet! They are perfectly-adapted for their aquatic lifestyle, using their strong toes and claws to grip the bottom of streams while walking underwater or clinging to rocks in swift currents. From a hike to Flood Falls, just outside of #HopeBC today. 🪶 🌿