12/03/25

 It's Wildflower Wednesday here on the Blog!  Today's flower is Western Ironweed.  It usually blooms, July through September and I took this image in mid August.  Ironweed is very popular with butterflies and if you look, you can see there was a visitor on this plant.  Ironweed is one of the most common pasture weeds in Kansas.

10/27/25

 Happy Monday and happy new week!  Starting off the week with a lovely butterfly photo.  This is a Great Spangled Fritillary that was visiting the Iron plant earlier this summer.  

03/07/24

 With our recent warmer weather I am looking forward to flowers and sights of nature like this one.  I captured this Crab Spider in the Ironweed this past August waiting for a meal.  It probably was a good spot as I usually saw a lot of insects around the Ironweed.

1/5/23

 I think I'd like to start off the first week of the new year's posts with a butterfly.  I didn't see all that many this year but I did get a few good opportunities when they were around.  This is a male Tiger Swallowtail on my Western Ironweed growing in a spot of my yard.

 

1/12/22

 It's Wildflower Wednesday!  Today's flower is Ironweed.  It blooms in late summer and the bees and butterflies are magnets to it.  This image of it has an example of that with some bee bonus!  😀

11/11/21

 It's a double digit day and also it is Veteran's Day here in the US.  Remember to support our Troops.

Today's image is one I was able to capture a while back of a lovely Clouded Sulphur butterfly that was enjoying the Ironweed flowers in my yard in late summer.

10/21/21

 It's a double digit day today.  😊  Butterflies have been few and far between lately.  I captured this one a few weeks ago enjoying the Ironweed in the yard.  It's a Giant Swallowtail.

8/26/21

 The Ironweed is in bloom and is a nature magnet.  I have seen Skippers and small butterflies and this Clearwing Moth enjoying it.  I was able to get fairly close with this shot so I was pretty happy with it.

12/19/19

Going back to a late summer day with today's image.  This is a Snowberry Clear Wing Moth that was enjoying the Ironweed blooms.  Ironweed was quite popular with all kinds of insects for me this year.  It is in the Sunflower family so maybe tastes good.  😀

12/5/19

I need to share a butterfly, I miss them already and the cold weather has just begun.  Sigh.  I did not see all that many late this year which made me sad but one of the few I saw were Monarchs so it was kind of a mixed feeling.  I captured this one on the fading Ironweed plant as it stopped by my yard for some nourishment.

9/12/19

Still in the Palindrome dates.  Today's image is of a Cicada I captured on the Ironweed plant.  Lots of insects and butterflies liked it but I was still surprised to find this.  They look very alien like.

9/3/19

The Ironweed was quite popular this year.  Soon the Autumn Sedum will bloom and that is a popular one too.  I saw my first Clearwing Moth of the year taking in the blooms about a week ago now. 

8/16/19

The wildflower Ironweed is in bloom right now.  It is quite the butterfly, bee and Skipper magnet.  I captured these 2 Giant swallowtails that were enjoying it.  When looking at the image on my computer I saw i had the bonus of a Skipper and a bee coming in to enjoy it as well.  Because Fridays are Bokehlicious I chose this image for the green tree, red Morton building and white collection tank bokeh all made to look rather soft and creamy along with the grass by the focus on the butterflies.

8/10/18

I have been quite lucky this summer that I have been able to see and capture Swallowtail Butterflies.  I have seen them mainly on the new land but also in my newer native plant garden.  I captured this male Tiger Swallowtail enjoying an Ironweed plant and found I had a bug bonus.  😁