Honey Bee And Hidden Spider

See if you can find the spider in the above photo. If you think you know where it is then leave me a comment. If you give up then I will post another photo to help you locate it.

Note: You can click on my photos to see a larger view.

This time of the year these thistle plants get all kinds of visits from different insects. All you have to do is sit nearby and just wait.
The Black Swallowtail Butterfly is the state butterfly of Oklahoma.

Cicada - Locust

Cicadas like heat and do their most spirited singing during the hotter hours of a summer day.

Male Eastern Pondhawk Dragonfly

The mature male (shown above) has an unmarked powder blue body, with white appendages on the tip of the abdomen. The eyes are green.
The females and immature males look markedly different from the mature males. Their bodies are green with black markings on the abdomen, and the abdomen becomes progressively blacker toward the rear. Their eyes are green to brown. Both males and females have green faces.

Pondhawk Dragonfly

I took a front facing photo of this pondhawk dragonfly eating a damselfly and this is the side view.