Jim 🇺🇦

@pom137

Biologist, very amateur photographer of local flora and fauna. All photos are my originals except where noted 🇺🇦

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Jim 🇺🇦@pom137· 25d

Another entry for #butterflyweek A giant swallowtail visiting a Bidens flower. #pollinators #bugsky #nature #butterflies 🦋 #insects #ECK

A large yellow butterfly with a yellow body with creamy yellow wings with blue, black, and rust markings. Papilio cresphontes Note the yellow center on the hind wing tail.

Jim 🇺🇦@pom137· 26d

Horace's duskywing for #butterflyweek 🦋 #bugsky #insects #butterflies #nature #wildlife #ECK

A brownish butterffly with white wing markings is shown on a pinkish flower . Erynnis horatius

Jim 🇺🇦@pom137· 26d

For #worldsnakeday a juvenile red corn snake in North Florida. 🐍 #herps #reptiles #snakes #nature #wildlife

A juvenile red corn snake with a grey background and brown splotches. the head is oriented at the upper left

Jim 🇺🇦@pom137· 27d

From today, a Gulf Fritillary visiting a Mexican sunflower (Tithonia). I never realized how much like an eye the markings resemble. Maybe enough for a predator to hesitate. #butterflyweek #pollinators #bugsky #nature #flowers #butterflies #ECK #insects

A butterfly resting on an flower with a bright yellow center and orange petals. The butterfly has various patterns of orange and brown interspersed with white/silvery markings

Jim 🇺🇦@pom137· 28d

For #butterflyweek a pipevine swallowtail coming in for a landing on a Bidens flower. These are tough to miss when they're flying. #pollinators #bugsky #butterflies #nature #insects #ECK

A dark swallowtail butterfly with a brilliant blue dorsal hindwing is landing on a white flower. The background blurred grasses.

Jim 🇺🇦@pom137· 29d

Nuttall's thistle in bloom

Jim 🇺🇦@pom137· Jul 13

I am mesmerized with the symmetry of the forming buds of what I believe is a Nuttall's thistle. The open flowers are pretty amazing too, but not a flower you would care to pick. #nativeplants #wildflowers #symmetry #nature #ECK #thistles #Florida

The symmetry of thistle buds is displayed with alternating green and grey segments distributed evenly about the central axis. Cirsium nuttallii, Nuttall's thistle

Jim 🇺🇦@pom137· Jul 12

Largeflower Rosegentian found in a moist area of North Florida I had access to. It was always a wonderful moment to see them in bloom, #wildflowers #nativeplants #nature #stunday #ECK #bloomscrolling #flowers

A large pink flower with 5 large petals with a vivid yellow start shaped center highlighted by a dark pink border. Sabatia grandiflora. A blurred green background of grasses.

Jim 🇺🇦@pom137· Jul 11

For #flyday a wet bee trying to dry off #bee #bugsky #pollinators #insects #nature #ECK #wildlife

Jim 🇺🇦@pom137· Jul 7

Spicebush swallowtail perched on a pentas flower. 🦋 #nature #butterflies #ECK #wildlife #bugsky #insects #Florida #Swallowtails

A black butterfly with orange markings on the underside of the hindwing and light dots on its black body. Pink pentas flowers are visible at the lower right corner

Jim 🇺🇦@pom137· Jul 4

The native plant, halberd-leaf rosemallow has been blooming for a few weeks now. Obviously a member of the hibiscus family. #wildflowers #nativeplants #nature #ECK #bloomscrolling #flowers 🌺

A large pink flower with a dark maroon center is shown against it's green leaves. Muenchhusia laevis

Jim 🇺🇦@pom137· Jul 4

For todays' #BirdOfTheDay Black-bellied whistling ducks in my backyard, a pair of very noisy #Quackers #nature #wildlife #birds #ECK #Birdphotography

A pair of large brown ducks with pink legs and black bellies are shown. One is looking at the camera and one with a large black crest is looking away Black-bellied whistling ducks (Dendrocygna autumnalis)

Jim 🇺🇦@pom137· Jul 3

Blooming now, a morning glory called Grandpa Ott. I bought seeds over a decade ago and it shows up every summer in a new spot, and I'm glad it does. No editing has been done to this photo taken with a cell phone. #morningglory #flowers #nature #ECK #bloomscrolling 🌼

Jim 🇺🇦@pom137· Jun 29

Prior to planting native plants in my yard, I never realized how important wasps were as pollinators. My contribution to World Pollinator Week is a scoliid wasp that was visiting a cutleaf coneflower. #pollinatorweek #nature #wildlife #nativeplants #wildflowess #bugsky #insects #ECK #wasps

A likely feather-legged scoliid wasp with lots of fine hairs on its black and yellow body is on the flower of a native coneflower, which has a greenish center with multiple yellow petals

Jim 🇺🇦@pom137· Jun 28

A spreading volunteer in my yard for the last several years has been the helmet skullcap. I always flag them as soon as I notice them sprouting so they won't be mowed. #wildflowers #nativeplants #nature #ECK #flowers #bloomscrolling #nature

A lavender wildflower is shown with multiple blossoms coming off a central stalk. Each flower has a white central midrib. The green background is formed by grasses. Scutellaria intergrifolia

Jim 🇺🇦@pom137· Jun 24

Phaon crescent butterflies. #twosday #butterflies #nature #bugsky #wildlife #insects 🦋

Two phaon crescent butterflies are shown in the center of the photo with a green grass backgound, The butterfoed have patterns of brown, orange and yellow . Phyciodes phaon species

Jim 🇺🇦@pom137· Jun 23

Aphids lined up on the stem of a white swamp milkweed seed pod. #bugsky #insects #nature #wildlife #milkweed #ECK #macro

Small yellow aphids with black appendages are lined up on a white swamp milkweed seed pod stem. The green seed pod is oriented from the center of the frame downward

Jim 🇺🇦@pom137· Jun 21

A pearl crescent visiting an inflorescence of the native wildflower, blackroot. #wildflowers #nativeplants #butterflies #bugsky #insects #invertebrates #ECK #nature #wildlife

An orange butterfly (Phyciodes tharos) with deep brown patterns is resting on a white flower called blackroot (Pterocaulon pycnostachyum).

Jim 🇺🇦@pom137· Jun 21

I've been babysitting a Vanda orchid for a neighbor since last fall. It spent part of the winter in my garage which I think traumatized it. Since it's been raining lately , it decided to show off a few blossoms. #vanda #orchids #bloomscrolling #ECK #flowers

A Vanda orchid is centered in the photo that has a yellowish center blending into purple at the outer edges. Hanging on a hook with its roots and leaves in the background and two unopened buds in the upper right.

Jim 🇺🇦@pom137· Jun 17

Southern broken-dash skipper. 🦋 #butterfly #nature #wildlife #bugsky #invertebrates #insects

A small orangish-brown butterfly with large black eyes is resting on a green leaf with dentate margins. Wallengrenia otho

Jim 🇺🇦@pom137· Jun 16

Showy milkwort, I plant I found in moist, but not wet, open areas. It has an odd flower shape and I had difficulty photographing it due to my camera inexperience. #nature #wildflowers #nativeplants #ECK #bloomscrolling #flowersonbluesky Attracts #bees as its pollinator.

An odd-shaped flower of showy milkwort is shown with pink and purple portions. Above the bottom blossom is a lateral view of another flower and further up the stem to the left is an unopened bud. There is a green background of the milkwort's leaves and other grasses. (Asemeia grandiflora)

Jim 🇺🇦@pom137· Jun 15

Found in a disturbed site years ago, hop clover, a nonnative plant. #nature #flowersonbluesky #SundayYellow #yellow #bloomscrolling #ECK #blooms

A bright yellow flower resembling clover with multiple petals against a green leafy background. Trifolium campestre

Jim 🇺🇦@pom137· Jun 14

The native wildflower, spurred butterfly-pea is back, self-seeding every year. #wildflower #nativeplant #nature #ECK #vine #pollinators The flowers provide food for bumble bees and its leaves host long-tailed skipper caterpillars.

A Purple butterfly pea blossom with a white center is shown at the left with its green leaves in the background

Jim 🇺🇦@pom137· Jun 12

For #flyday a bristle fly on a climbing aster flower. #nature #bugsky #inverts #insects #pollinators #wildflowers #ECK 🪰 #wildflowers

A bristle fly oriented downward centered on a climbing aster with lavender-colored flower petals and an orange center. Bristle flies are members of the family Tachinidae.

Jim 🇺🇦@pom137· Jun 10

A red-spotted purple butterfly displaying on a forest floor. Coloring suggests in is a mimic of the distasteful pipevine swallowtail. 🦋 #butterflies #bugsky #ECK #mimicry #insects #nature #wildlife #inverts

A butterfly with iridescent blue coloring is shown on the forest floor (Limenitis arthemis)

Jim 🇺🇦@pom137· Jun 5

I used to see this screech owl almost daily until the dead tree it was living in was blown over. I never saw it again, but I'm sure it was still seeing me. #birdoftheday #lookingatyou #birdphotography #owl #nature #wildlife #ECK #birds

A screech owl is peering out of a hole in a barkless tan/white tree

Jim 🇺🇦@pom137· Jun 3

Florida native Scarlet rosemallow with their huge 8" diameter blossoms are in bloom right now. #wildflowers #redwed #ECK #nativeplants #nature #hibiscus #bloomscrolling #bloomsky #wetland

A red hibiscus with 5 large petals is shown with green unopened buds at the top of the photo. There is a green background of plant leaves. It was known as Hibiscus coccinea, although some sources have changed the genus to Muenchhusia

Jim 🇺🇦@pom137· Jun 1

Beardtongues were in bloom this past week. #nativeplants #wildflowers #nature #ECK #bloomscrolling #Florida

A lavender flower with dark purple striations against a white throat. Unopened buds are also shown. I believe this is the Eastern Smooth beardtongue (Penstemon laevigatus)

Jim 🇺🇦@pom137· May 29

Starting to see more insects after a few days of rain. Making appearances yesterday were likely flatid plant hoppers on a Virginia creeper stem. #bugsky #nature #ECK #insectThursday #inverts #insects #wildlife