With weather forecasts still somewhat unsettled, Sherrie and I decided to stay close to town for our caching/hiking today. We did a couple of caches along the Fountain Creek Regional trail and did 5+ miles. Bugs were plentiful and I got decent shots of several species. I think I submitted more than 10 pictures to bugguide.com today. This adorable whitetail fawn was about 20 yards away from us, across a drainage ditch. It kept bolting off in a little circle and then would come back and look at us, almost daring us into a game of chase. Very cute!
These juvenile barn swallows were peering down at us from their nest inside one of the observation shelters.
Here are a couple of bug pictures:
First of all is an ambush bug. Ambush bugs wait motionless on a flower for another insect to come along. Then they pounce on them, often catching and eating species much larger than themselves.
This is a milkweed beetle. It was on a ... yeah, you guessed it, a milkweed plant.
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