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I stalk the insects.

The Indian Spring hollyhock lures all the most vicious insects ? including the dreaded European paper wasp ? and drives them wild with desire:

Enought, dammit!

Meanwhile, the gentle fireflies, flustered by daylight, imagine they see the love light in the blazing yellow petals. There were fireflies ? and only fireflies ? all over the black-eyed susans:

And what are these huge all-black wasps? Sphex pensylvanicus - the Great Black Wasp? They were into hugging these bulbous yellow flowers:

I kept getting closer, trying to get my camera into the right position, and then I suddenly became aware of myself and didn't want to photograph gigantic wasps anymore.

Full post as published by Althouse on August 24, 2008 (boomark / email).