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June 20, 2009: Mating skippers

This morning started about 8:10. There were no orb weavers inhabiting their webs but my first crab spider

A grasshopper

jun 20 7647 ghopper

A yellow crab spider

jun 20 7651 yellow crab

Another view

jun 20 7655 yellow crab

Blue plant hopper

jun 20 7662 plant hopper

Another view

jun 20 7664 blue hopper

A fly

jun 20 7683 fly

A tangle of spider silk

jun 20 7691 silk tangle

A skipper

jun 20 7702 skipper

The back of a grasshopper

jun 20 7706 hopper

A fun cricket - upside down

jun 20 7710 cricket

Sideways

jun 20 7716 cricket

A nearby fly

jun 20 7758 fly

Mating skippers

jun 20 7762 mating skippers

Eye of the left skipper

jun 20 7765 skipper eye

Another view of the mating pair

jun 20 7767 mating skippers

From above

jun 20 7773 mating skippers

From more above

jun 20 7774 entwined

Eye of the right skipper

jun 20 7789 skipper eye

Last view of the mating pair

jun 20 7794 mating skippers

An escaping lynx

jun 20 7800 escaping lynx

Cricket and long antenna

jun 20 7804 long antennae

Ready to leap

jun 20 7807 ready to jump

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