Some critters...image heavy

[JMN1981]

My boys spend all summer outside looking for cool bugs for me to take pictures of so here are a few:

Praying Mantis':




Dragon/Damselflies: (actually the dragonfly I shot at the wildlife refuge near our house...but...Josh-my oldest-pointed them out)




And....my husband discovered a bunch of foxes that live at his work so I drove there every stinking day at 5am for 2 weeks trying to get pictures of the darn things:


And then.....we took a walk in the wildlife refuge in mid-november and found this little guy just hangin out:


And the monarch caterpillar the boys found me:


another caterpillar:


Walking Stick:


and last but DEFINITLY not least-My friend George He WAS a birthday gift for Josh but Im the only one thats not to chicken to hold him.