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john b.1: Mantis Buckeye deathmatch
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john b.1: Buckeye on Joe-pye Weed at Meinert Co. Park
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john b.1: Three-square
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john b.1: Eupatorium perfoliatum - common Boneset
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john b.1: Cirsium pitcheri - Pitcher's Thistle
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john b.1: Nordhouse dunes - Lithospermum caroliniense (Hairy Puccoon)
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john b.1: Lake Michigan at Nordhouse Dunes - Pitcher's thistle, Marram grass
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john b.1: Nordhouse Dunes - Litherspermum caroliniense - Hairy Puccoon in abundance
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john b.1: Cream Wild Indigo - Prairie Rhonde 020
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john b.1: Cecopria moth - I reared 20 from larvae to cocoon, which I then overwintered outdoors zip-tied to a tree. The next June they hatched over a 3-4 day period.
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john b.1: May 15 2010 034
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john b.1: Bumblebee nectaring on un-opened Prairie Smoke blossom
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john b.1: Geum triflorum - Prairie Smoke
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john b.1: Geum triflorum - Prairie Smoke
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john b.1: Viola pedata - Bird's-foot violet
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john b.1: Litherspermum canescens - Hoary Puccoon
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john b.1: Cobweb skipper
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john b.1: Phlox pilosa - Prairie Phlox
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john b.1: Viola pedata - Bird's-foot violet
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john b.1: Woods on 44th and Kent Trail - behind huge church (9)
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john b.1: 2008 533
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john b.1: Grey hairstreak
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john b.1: Woods on 44th and Kent Trail - behind huge church (6)
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john b.1: Female eastern Box Turtle
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john b.1: 2008 278
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john b.1: Comma
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john b.1: Monarch larva
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john b.1: Eastern Tiger swallowtai with probing proboscis nectaring on crown vetch
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john b.1: 2008 421
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john b.1: Predator and prey