Yellow Butterfly

Posted on June 24, 2020 by Sheila Creighton • Posted in Nature • Tagged butterfly, close up, colorful, colourful, copyright, insect, photography, summer, wings, yellow • 1 Comment

Close on a Canadian Tiger Swallowtail.

© Sheila Creighton 2020

Cicada

Posted on August 15, 2019 by Sheila Creighton • Posted in Nature • Tagged bug, copyright, green, insect, leaves, photography, summer, sun, wings • 5 Comments

Close on a big bug of summer!

© Sheila Creighton 2019

Damselfly

Posted on July 17, 2016 by Sheila Creighton • Posted in Nature • Tagged bug, copyright, green, insect, leaves, photography, wings • Leave a comment

A damselfly checks me out before getting back to flitting around the summer woods.

© Sheila Creighton 2016

Daddy Longlegs

Posted on July 11, 2015 by Sheila Creighton • Posted in Gardens • Tagged arachnid, close up, copyright, Flowers, Harvestmen, insect, photography, purple, red, salvia, summer • 2 Comments

Climbing around on the purple salvia, a daddy longlegs freezes so I don’t see him.

© Sheila Creighton 2015

Tasty Clover

Posted on June 28, 2014 by Sheila Creighton • Posted in Nature • Tagged butterfly, close up, clover, copyright, field, insect, London, macro, photography, purple, Skipper, summer, Westminster Ponds • 2 Comments

A type of Skipper butterfly takes a nice long drink of nectar on a pretty clover bloom. The fact that I’m an inch away does not seem to interrupt its lunch.

© Sheila Creighton 2014

Fall Field Memories

Posted on March 9, 2014 by Sheila Creighton • Posted in Nature • Tagged brown, copyright, dragonfly, eyes, fall color, field, insect, photography, whiskers, wings • 6 Comments

Fall Field Memories

Remembering last fall and the dragonflies in the field. Soon, when all this snow melts, they will be back!

© Sheila Creighton 2014

Hey Lady!

Posted on October 2, 2013 by Sheila Creighton • Posted in Gardens • Tagged beetle, bug, copyright, flower, insect, ladybug, macro, photography, rudbeckia, yellow • 2 Comments

Hey Lady!

A cute little ladybug climbs around on a Thin-leafed Coneflower.

© Sheila Creighton 2013

Hopper of Grass

Posted on September 26, 2013 by Sheila Creighton • Posted in Nature • Tagged black & white, close up, copyright, field, grasshopper, insect, Ontario, photography • 6 Comments

Hopper of Grass

A view in the field at Westminster Ponds, London.

© Sheila Creighton 2013

Green on Green

Posted on July 2, 2013 by Sheila Creighton • Posted in Nature • Tagged black, dragonfly, grass, green, insect, London, photography, Westminster Ponds, wings • 10 Comments

Green on Green

A dragonfly rests on blades of grass at Westminster Ponds ESA.

© Sheila Creighton 2013

Praying Mantis

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Sheila Creighton • Posted in Art • Tagged insect, London, metal, photography, scrap, sculpture, silhouette, Zubick's • 8 Comments

Praying Mantis

A view of a praying mantis done as part of the Welded Wonders Project at John Zubick’s Scrap Metals in London. This piece was created by Fanshawe art students Calista Povelofskie, Lorynne Southwell and Dana Newman

© Sheila Creighton 2012