Kauê Costa, who runs the Brazilian blog Biologia Interativa, featured many of my ant images in his latest post.
 

Any Portuguese speakers out there?
 

A longhorn grasshopper nymph steals
the dusky moon from the dawn.
 

From warmer times, several of my images were published
in the 4th of July issue of Hometown Focus, a newspaper
covering northern Minnesota.
 

The only fireworks here now is the cold moonlight glittering
on a crisp, fresh snowfall.
 

The light fades on a snowy afternoon,
and a radiant rascal surveys the
raging sky with a whisper.
 

Wearing a crown of wet feathers,
a soaked songbird fills the hole in the sky
left behind by a spring rain.
 

Hidden away and little known,
some knots will never be untied,
particularly those created by the Greater
Angle-wing Katydid, perhaps keeping secrets
locked in chitin-inlaid treasure boxes.
 

A small squadron of honey bees is spotlit on a sunny green
stage, some coming home with a load of pollen,
others setting out to forage, hovering and tumbling,
a buzzing, yellow cloud of life.
 

She looked like a very special kind of dynamite,
neatly wrapped in crimson and feathers.
 

A female cardinal bewitches with her crimson charms.
 

“You wouldn’t know love if it hit you in the face.”

“So hit me!”

A memory of summer, a butterfly accidentally introduced to North America,
the Cabbage White, before the dust was brushed from its wings.

The dark spots mark it a female.