krista schlyer
conservation writing & photography
Neighbors
Spotted salamander
Gray squirrel
Marbled salamander
Woodland poppy
Northern brown snake
Northern brown snake
American oil beetle, with flame-colored beetle
Ant-ID pending
American oil beetle
Largemouth bass
Black crappie tail
Black crappie
Black crappie
Black crappie
Jumping spider
Jumping spider
Ailanthus webworm
Harlequin beetles
Katydid
Dog day cicada
Question mark caterpillar
Short-horned grasshopper
Spider-ID pending
Black and yellow argiope
Mantis
Mantis
Question mark chrysalis
Beautyberry
Question mark chrysalis
Question mark butterfly emerging
Question mark butterfly emerging
Question mark butterfly emerging
Question mark butterfly emerging
Question mark butterfly emerging
Question mark butterfly emerging
Question mark butterfly emerging
Question mark butterfly
Question mark butterfly
Question mark butterfly
Spicebush swallowtail caterpillar
Pumpkinseed
Alewife
Yellow perch
Banded killifish
Pumpkinseed
Pumpkinseed
White perch
Bluegill
Brown bullhead
Brown bullhead
ID pending
ID pending
Water boatman
ID pending
ID pending
American eel
Brown bullhead with cancer
Harris’s hawk
ID pending
Carpenter bee
Carpenter bee
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Krista,
I very much enjoyed “Meeting my neighbors” and am especially glad to see that none you have introduced me to appear to have lesions! — Jim Schulman
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