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Calypso, or Fairy Slipper, Orchids
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A crab spider lurks on chiming bell flowers.
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A tiny moth rests on flowers of the spotted coral root orchid.
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Scarlet Gilia or Fairy Trumptets
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Close up on purple flowers of Field Mint, a circumpolar native plant.
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Two Gaillardia Moths tucked into a single Indian Blanket Flower.
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A small green grasshopper nymph hiding among the petals of a Gaillardia (Indian Blanket) Flower.
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Gray hairstreak butterfly.
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Honeybees pollinating a green gentian (or monument plant).
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Close up on two lovely yellow flowers of native Fringed Loosestrife.
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Mariposa Lily
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White-lined sphinx moth seeks nectar from penstemon flowers.
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Painted Lady butterfly.
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White pelage long-tailed weasel peeking out of a rock, Baseline picnic area.
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close up of a skipper butterfly nectaring at a Chicory flower.
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close up of a skipper butterfly nectaring at a smooth aster.
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Pasque flowers in early spring.
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Gaillardia moth tucked into a single Indian Blanket Flower.
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Rare Bell's Twinpod is only found on a few shale barrens along the Front Range.
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Bill May Photography
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Blue-eyed grass isn't really a grass at all. It's in the iris family.