Stopping to smell the flowers! A Smeared Dagger Moth caterpillar @ Huntley Meadows Wetlands, Virginia, USA. (2024-09-07) #NaturePhotography #TwitterNatureCommunity #BBCWildlifePOTD #ThePhotoHour #IndiAves #flowers #Butterflies

Frog-et it's Monday! Green Tree Frog's open mouth (smile?) @ Huntley Meadows Wetlands, Virginia, USA. (2024-09-07) #NaturePhotography #TwitterNatureCommunity #BBCWildlifePOTD #ThePhotoHour #IndiAves #Mondaythought #MondayMotivation

Spidermen die in bed! A female Yellow Garden Spider towers over her male partner on a garden wall. Male Yellow Garden spiders are about three times smaller than the females and die after mating, and sometimes are even eaten by their partners upon death. @ Atlanta Botanical

A Hummingbird Moth sucks nectar from Milkweed flowers @ Huntley Meadows Wetlands, Virginia, USA. (2024-08-11) #NaturePhotography #TwitterNatureCommunity #BBCWildlifePOTD #ThePhotoHour #IndiAves #TitliTuesday #moth

Beary alone! A junior Black Bear gives a wary look at it peeks out from a forest edge @ Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge in eastern North Carolina along the Atlantic Coast. (2024-08-27) #NaturePhotography #TwitterNatureCommunity #BBCWildlifePOTD #ThePhotoHour #IndiAves

Sniff and leaf! A Green Snake flicks its forked tongue in hunt for prey @ Huntley Meadows Wetlands, Virginia, USA. (2024-08-11) #NaturePhotography #TwitterNatureCommunity #BBCWildlifePOTD #ThePhotoHour #IndiAves #snakes

Fluttering-by! A Viceroy butterfly flies in the face 🤣of a nature photographer @ Huntley Meadows Wetlands, Virginia, USA. (2024-09-12) #NaturePhotography #TwitterNatureCommunity #BBCWildlifePOTD #ThePhotoHour #IndiAves #butterfly #photography Capital Weather Gang

Bee in-your-face! A large Carpenter Bee makes eye contact while feeding on nectar @ Claude Moore Park, Virginia, USA. (2024-09-13) #NaturePhotography #TwitterNatureCommunity #BBCWildlifePOTD #ThePhotoHour #IndiAves Capital Weather Gang

Like a rocket, an egret takes off -- not to space, but to shoo away another egret over a territorial dispute at Huntley Meadows Wetlands, Virginia, USA. (2024-09-12) #NaturePhotography #TwitterNatureCommunity #BBCWildlifePOTD #ThePhotoHour #IndiAves #egret

Till the tail end! A Green Heron struggles with a big slippery catch @ Huntley Meadows Wetlands, Virginia, USA (2024-09-07) #NaturePhotography #TwitterNatureCommunity #BBCWildlifePOTD #ThePhotoHour #IndiAves #fishing

In my cozy study! A Green Tree Frog enjoying a quiet moment @ Huntley Meadows Wetlands, Virginia, USA. (2024-08-21) #NaturePhotography #TwitterNatureCommunity #BBCWildlifePOTD #ThePhotoHour #IndiAves #frog

Jump? How High? A Phidippus jumping spider, which ambushes prey instead of trapping them in webs, is seen here hunting in the woods of Claude Moore Park, Virginia. Jumping spiders have four pairs of camera-type eyes and are believed to have the sharpest vision of all spiders.

Beauty that bugs! A Spotted Cocumber Beetle, considered a nuisance farm pest, busy eating pollen @ Claude Moore Park, Virginia, USA (2024-09-17) #NaturePhotography #TwitterNatureCommunity #BBCWildlifePOTD #ThePhotoHour #IndiAves #beauty #pest #summer

Fall scents! A Large Milkweed Bug pair chill out @ Claude Moore Park, Virginia, USA. (2024-09-13) #NaturePhotography #TwitterNatureCommunity #BBCWildlifePOTD #ThePhotoHour #IndiAves #bug #fallseason #fall @loudounprcs

The delicate art of fishing - by Great Blue Heron @ Huntley Meadows Wetlands, Virginia, USA. (2024-09-12) #NaturePhotography #TwitterNatureCommunity #BBCWildlifePOTD #ThePhotoHour #IndiAves #fishing #heron #art

It’s World Alzheimer’s Day! Here, a handsome American Goldfinch sits among Hyssop white flowers, which are a symbol of hope for a cure for Alzheimer’s Disease, the most common type of dementia — @ Brookside Gardens, Maryland, USA. (2024-08-10) #NaturePhotography

Feel Fall🧡 An Ailanthus Webworm Moth @ Claude Moore Park, Virginia, USA. (2024-09-19 ) #NaturePhotography #TwitterNatureCommunity #BBCWildlifePOTD #ThePhotoHour #IndiAves #bug #fallseason #fall @loudounprcs Capital Weather Gang

A fledgling Mississippi Kite spreads its wings to show mama it's striving to be self reliant @ Rockville, Maryland, USA. (2024-08-17) #NaturePhotography #TwitterNatureCommunity #BBCWildlifePOTD #ThePhotoHour #IndiAves #raptors