Nature photography by Mark Chappell:   insects and spiders

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    monarchs

    mourning cloak

    Argynnis aglaga

    small tortoiseshell

    tiger swallowtail

    queen butterfly

    morpho at rest

    red admiral

    Painted ladies

    California sister

    Lycaenid butterfly

    pigmy blue

    small tortiseshell

    peacock butterfly

    Melanargia

    sphinx moth

    sphinx moth

    green fly

    native bee

    cactus bees

    honeybee hive


    carpenter bees

    Anthophorid bees

    bumblebees

    Darwin's beetle


    gray sanddragon

    Western pondhawk

    neon skimmer

    Mexican amberwing

    wandering glider

    varigated meadowhawk

    red rock skimmer

    black saddlebags

    red saddlebags

    red-tailed pennant

    blue dasher

    blue-eyed darner

    flame skimmer

    green darner

    roseate skimmer

    eight-spotted skimmer

    spot-winged glider


    great pondhawk


    band-winged dragonlet


    Habronattus pyrrithrix

    jumping spider 2

    Phidippus

    Thiodina sylvana

    jumping spider

    Thiodina hespera


    araneus face

    pink-toed tarantula

    Mexican fireleg

    greenbottle blue tarantula

    zebra tarantula

    black widows

    lynx spider

    Neoscona crucifera


    golden garden spider

    banded argiope


    silver argiope


    orb spider

    golden silk orb-weaver
    ballooning spiders