The Black Swallowtail caterpillar is a common butterfly larvae throughout most of the United States. This species lives and dines on members of the parsley family (including carrots, dill, fennel and parsnips), which is how it got its nickname, Parsley worm.
Silver-spotted Skipper
The Orange Sulphur (Colias eurytheme), also known as the Alfalfa Butterfly and in its larval stage as Alfalfa Caterpillar, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae, where it belongs to the “yellows and sulphurs” subfamily Coliadinae. It is found throughout North America from southern Canada to Mexico, but is absent from the central and southeastern USA.
Blue Bottle Fly
Blue bottle fly (Calliphora vomitoria) adults feed on nectar, while the larvae feed on carcasses of dead animals. Adults are also pollinators to some flowers with strong odor. These insects like to fly in packs in order to detect possible prey more efficiently. If one fly detects food, it will disperse a pheromone which will alert the others to the meal.
Leaf-cutter Bee
Leaf-cutter Bee
The picture of this Leaf-cutter Bee was taken with the Canon 100mm macro lens on the Canon 5D Mark III camera.
The leaf-cutter bee (family Megachilidae), differ from most other bees in that they collect pollen on their abdomens rather than on their hind legs.