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A common carder bee and a green shield bug, both hanging out on the same dahlia
Black and white image of a lone monarch butterfly in shadow and amongst the leaves and flowers of a bougainvillea.
a chunky caterpillar with bright yellow/white/black striping grips the edge of its molted skin in its prolegs. a sundappled garden is visible in background.
Newborn ladybug emerges from her pupa as she balances on a desert milkweed. Hard to imagine this ladybird as the stereotypical red-spotted garden love—but it is. This yellow new-born just broke free and will now meander without eating to a safe place while her yellow shell hardens and becomes a place where black-spots-on-a-red-bug bring a smile of recognition. However, this coloration is solely a stereotype. There are many colors, shapes, spot and no spot specimens we may not appreciate as an actual ladybug. And that said, her nearly finished metamorphosis may not develop as imagined because her hardened shell wing protector may become a completely different incarnation. But there is a common thread: four stages of growth with the first as one of 50 tiny yellow eggs, second as a comparatively peckish and ugly spiked bug, third as a small two week stay pupa similar to a butterfly (except this pupa moves around), and four—a birth realized as the photo above. She will wait three days to change color and fly off where she will consume aphid upon destructive aphid for her lifetime—an amazing one to three years.
A cute little bee, probably a furrow bee, on a yellow flower. Its back legs are pretty well coated with yellow pollen.