http://stevecreek.com Photographs by Steve Creek on his walks in the outdoors Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:49:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_1054" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Honey Bee And Hidden Spider"][/caption] 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 ... http://stevecreek.com/honey-bee-and-spider/ [gallery] 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. http://stevecreek.com/black-swallowtail-butterfly-gallery/ [caption id="attachment_1034" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Cicada - Locust"][/caption] Cicadas like heat and do their most spirited singing during the hotter hours of a summer day. http://stevecreek.com/singing-cicada/ [caption id="attachment_1017" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Male Eastern Pondhawk Dragonfly"][/caption] 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 ... http://stevecreek.com/male-eastern-pondhawk-dragonfly/ [caption id="attachment_1014" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Pondhawk Dragonfly"][/caption] I took a front facing photo of this pondhawk dragonfly eating a damselfly and this is the side view. http://stevecreek.com/pondhawk-dragonfly-eating-a-damselfly-side-view/