INSECTS

Red-spotted Purple or White Admiral 

(Limenitis arthemis) 

Picture taken on the trail in Palos, IL

http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species?l=1785

Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis)

Taken by a pond at the Orland Park Grasslands

Picture captured at the Orland Park Grasslands

This male dragonfly picture was taken at The Little Red School House in Palos, IL

http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/insects/dfly/il/mor400.htm

Halloween Pennant (Celithemis eponina)

This Dragonfly photo was taken at Horseshoe Lake in Palos, IL

http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/insects/dfly/il/341.htm

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

(Papilio glaucus Linnaeus)

 This is the male of the species

This is the dark form of the female

I found myself very lucky to have found them both on the same flower.
This picture taken at Horseshoe Lake trail in Palos, IL

http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species?l=1372