Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning

This is a green hopper. They hop everywhere. Is it a grasshopper? I don't know - but any suggestions will be quite useful

This is a blue dragonfly

Same dragonfly

Here is an ant from above

and as he/she is climbing from one leaf to the next

This is a grasshopper, definitely

and from the side - kind of a scruffy face, though

Here is another blue dragonfly. According to Wikipedia, damselflies differ from dragonflies in that the wing rest position of a dragonfly is extended while a damselfly has the wings resting parallel to the body.

A few ant photos

From the front

From behind

A fly

And now an orange hopper (Assassin bug?)

From the back

Upside down

Climbing back up to the top of the blade of grass

Almost returned to the top

Starring him/her down

From the side

Anohter view

And from the top back

C. Frank Starmer

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