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A Few Insects

Last fall all the insect action was on Chuckwalla Delight flowers, this fall it is Desert Broom. Find a Desert Broom plant in flower and one is in business. Since I’ve been here, I have seen no kangaroo rats out at night, then last night I saw two near the camper. They seem to be inactive some nights and active on others. I’m still working on a couple of astrophotography targets, but they are not ready to show yet.

Leda Ministreak with one wing raised enough to see the blue on the upper part of the other wing. The flower is Desert Broom.
Here we go again, more photos of Great Purple Hairstreak. I can’t resist. This one is a male.
A Bee Fly, genus Bombylius.
Mexican Amberwing, Perithemis intensa. A dragonfly species of wet areas in the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts.
A longhorn beetle on Desert Broom. It has no common name, but is known as Sphaenothecus bilineatus, according to BugGuide.
One of the Merriam’s Kangaroo Rats I saw last night.

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