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Ravine in the mist from St.Clair balcony View fullsize

Ravine in the mist from St.Clair balcony

Ravine in the mist from St.Clair balcony View fullsize

Ravine in the mist from St.Clair balcony

Dawn from the St. Clair balcony View fullsize

Dawn from the St. Clair balcony

Dawn from the St. Clair balcony View fullsize

Dawn from the St. Clair balcony

Ferrari 250 GTO, 3.0 L, V12 1962-64. Only 36 of these cars were built. View fullsize

Ferrari 250 GTO, 3.0 L, V12 1962-64. Only 36 of these cars were built.

A cicada Killer Wasp on a fig, with a Flesh Fly (left) and a Hoverfly (right). Alexandria Va 2013 View fullsize

A cicada Killer Wasp on a fig, with a Flesh Fly (left) and a Hoverfly (right). Alexandria Va 2013

A broken pier side ship's bollard hosts a busy Yellow Jacket nest View fullsize

A broken pier side ship's bollard hosts a busy Yellow Jacket nest

KWV dusk view View fullsize

KWV dusk view

Downtown dusk KWV view View fullsize

Downtown dusk KWV view

Skyline Drink top View fullsize

Skyline Drink top

KWV dusk view View fullsize

KWV dusk view

A House Sparrow, Toronto Waterfront View fullsize

A House Sparrow, Toronto Waterfront

KWV, dusk, Toronto View fullsize

KWV, dusk, Toronto

Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09275.jpg View fullsize
Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09272.jpg View fullsize
Japanese Anemone or Windflower View fullsize

Japanese Anemone or Windflower

Caryopteris View fullsize

Caryopteris

Sugar Maple showing some nice Autumnal hues View fullsize

Sugar Maple showing some nice Autumnal hues

Korean Dogwood (Cornus kousa) fruit View fullsize

Korean Dogwood (Cornus kousa) fruit

The well named Burning Bush (Euonymus alatus) in full Autumnal regalia View fullsize

The well named Burning Bush (Euonymus alatus) in full Autumnal regalia

New England Aster about to bloom View fullsize

New England Aster about to bloom

Queen Anne's Lace (Daucus carota) about to set seed View fullsize

Queen Anne's Lace (Daucus carota) about to set seed

Cranesbill (a type of Geranium) View fullsize

Cranesbill (a type of Geranium)

Cornus alternifolia (Pagoda Dogwood) showing Autumnal colours in the ravine View fullsize

Cornus alternifolia (Pagoda Dogwood) showing Autumnal colours in the ravine

Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09559.jpg View fullsize
Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) seed pod, a host plant for Monarch Butterfly caterpillars View fullsize

Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) seed pod, a host plant for Monarch Butterfly caterpillars

Ravine Sept 16 2026 DSC09570.jpg View fullsize
Ants, yes. Likely to be Citronella Ants but they could be European Fire Ants. I chose not to test that theory. View fullsize

Ants, yes. Likely to be Citronella Ants but they could be European Fire Ants. I chose not to test that theory.

Asters hosting a Clouded Sulphur Butterfly and a Leafcutter Bee View fullsize

Asters hosting a Clouded Sulphur Butterfly and a Leafcutter Bee

A Sweat Bee foraging on Asters View fullsize

A Sweat Bee foraging on Asters

A Sweat Bee on Caryopteris x clandonensis View fullsize

A Sweat Bee on Caryopteris x clandonensis

A Bumblebee on Caryopteris x clandonensis), View fullsize

A Bumblebee on Caryopteris x clandonensis),

Cranesbill hosting a Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) with a Metallic Sweat Bee View fullsize

Cranesbill hosting a Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) with a Metallic Sweat Bee

Cranesbill hosting a Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) with an incoming Metallic Sweat Bee View fullsize

Cranesbill hosting a Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) with an incoming Metallic Sweat Bee

An ant foraging on a Cranesbill flower View fullsize

An ant foraging on a Cranesbill flower

A Honey Bee on Cranesbill View fullsize

A Honey Bee on Cranesbill

Common Carder Bumblebee (right) and Brown-belted Bumblebee View fullsize

Common Carder Bumblebee (right) and Brown-belted Bumblebee

Bumble Bees, a Honey Bee and a Metallic Green Sweat Bee on Caryopteris View fullsize

Bumble Bees, a Honey Bee and a Metallic Green Sweat Bee on Caryopteris

A Metallic Green Sweat Bee, a Honey Bee and a Cabbage White Butterfly on Asters. There's room for one more insect..... View fullsize

A Metallic Green Sweat Bee, a Honey Bee and a Cabbage White Butterfly on Asters. There's room for one more insect.....

Bumbles View fullsize

Bumbles

Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09401.jpg View fullsize
Metallic Green Sweat Bee with an incoming Striped Sweat Bee View fullsize

Metallic Green Sweat Bee with an incoming Striped Sweat Bee

Sulphur Butterfly View fullsize

Sulphur Butterfly

Sulphur Butterfly View fullsize

Sulphur Butterfly

Ravine Sept 16 2026 DSC09571.jpg View fullsize
Female Common Blue Butterfly View fullsize

Female Common Blue Butterfly

Bumble Bee View fullsize

Bumble Bee

A Pink-edged Sulphur Butterfly View fullsize

A Pink-edged Sulphur Butterfly

Metallic Green Sweat Bee, a Honey Bee and a Cabbage White Butterfly on Asters View fullsize

Metallic Green Sweat Bee, a Honey Bee and a Cabbage White Butterfly on Asters

Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09480.jpg View fullsize
Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09330.jpg View fullsize
Metallic Green Sweat Bee on a Thistle bloom View fullsize

Metallic Green Sweat Bee on a Thistle bloom

Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09537.jpg View fullsize
Ravine Sept 16 2026 DSC09569.jpg View fullsize
A Great Black Wasp View fullsize

A Great Black Wasp

Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09550.jpg View fullsize
Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09462.jpg View fullsize
Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09311.jpg View fullsize
A Bumblebee and a Northern Paper Wasp on Golden Rod View fullsize

A Bumblebee and a Northern Paper Wasp on Golden Rod

Striped Sweat Bee View fullsize

Striped Sweat Bee

Northern Paper Wap View fullsize

Northern Paper Wap

A Brown-lipped Snail View fullsize

A Brown-lipped Snail

Two ants and a Striped Sweat Bee vie for a Cranesbill flower's nectar and pollen View fullsize

Two ants and a Striped Sweat Bee vie for a Cranesbill flower's nectar and pollen

Ravine Sept 16 2026 DSC09585.jpg View fullsize
Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09316.jpg View fullsize
Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09322.jpg View fullsize
Ravine Sept 16 02 2026DSC09565.jpg View fullsize
Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09321.jpg View fullsize
Narrow-headed Marsh Fly View fullsize

Narrow-headed Marsh Fly

Striped Sweat Bee View fullsize

Striped Sweat Bee

Honey Bee View fullsize

Honey Bee

Striped Sweat Bee in a Cranesbill flower View fullsize

Striped Sweat Bee in a Cranesbill flower

Short-horned Grasshoppers View fullsize

Short-horned Grasshoppers

Short-horned Grasshoppers View fullsize

Short-horned Grasshoppers

Short-horned Grasshoppers View fullsize

Short-horned Grasshoppers

Ravine Sept 16 2026 DSC09589.jpg View fullsize
A Great Black Wasp and two Honey Bees View fullsize

A Great Black Wasp and two Honey Bees

Cabbage Whites, the lower in a mating refusal posture View fullsize

Cabbage Whites, the lower in a mating refusal posture

More Cabbage White mating refusal View fullsize

More Cabbage White mating refusal

Cabbage White Butterflies in full mating refusal mode View fullsize

Cabbage White Butterflies in full mating refusal mode

Cabbage Whites in synchronised full refusal mode (9.5, 9.8, 9.7) View fullsize

Cabbage Whites in synchronised full refusal mode (9.5, 9.8, 9.7)

Face to face with a Common Blue Butterfly on Asters View fullsize

Face to face with a Common Blue Butterfly on Asters

A Great Black Wasp sandwich, Honey Bees top and bottom View fullsize

A Great Black Wasp sandwich, Honey Bees top and bottom

Common Blue Butterfly (male) View fullsize

Common Blue Butterfly (male)

A Northern paper wasp View fullsize

A Northern paper wasp

Common Blue Butterfly (female) View fullsize

Common Blue Butterfly (female)

Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09429.jpg View fullsize
A Short-horned Grasshopper View fullsize

A Short-horned Grasshopper

Ravine Sept 16 2026 DSC09576.jpg View fullsize
A Great Black Wasp View fullsize

A Great Black Wasp

A Potter Wasp on Solidago (Goldenrod) View fullsize

A Potter Wasp on Solidago (Goldenrod)

A Drone Fly on an Aster Flower View fullsize

A Drone Fly on an Aster Flower

A Bumblebee departs leaving a Striped Sweat Bee on Caryopteris View fullsize

A Bumblebee departs leaving a Striped Sweat Bee on Caryopteris

A Potter Wasp View fullsize

A Potter Wasp

A Marsh Fly in the Hoverfly family View fullsize

A Marsh Fly in the Hoverfly family

A Drone Fly (right) View fullsize

A Drone Fly (right)

Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09538.jpg View fullsize
Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09417.jpg View fullsize
A Pink-edged Sulphur  Butterfly availing of its excellent camouflage View fullsize

A Pink-edged Sulphur Butterfly availing of its excellent camouflage

Ravine Sept 16 2026 DSC09596.jpg View fullsize
Common Eastern Bumblebee View fullsize

Common Eastern Bumblebee

Female Common Blue Butterfly View fullsize

Female Common Blue Butterfly

A Bumblebee View fullsize

A Bumblebee

A Metallic Green Sweat Bee on Goldenrod View fullsize

A Metallic Green Sweat Bee on Goldenrod

A Northern Paper Wasp and a Metallic Green Sweat Bee View fullsize

A Northern Paper Wasp and a Metallic Green Sweat Bee

A Feather-legged Fly on Goldenrod View fullsize

A Feather-legged Fly on Goldenrod

Metallic Green Sweat Bee View fullsize

Metallic Green Sweat Bee

A Honey Bee and a Great Black Wasp View fullsize

A Honey Bee and a Great Black Wasp

A Locust Borer Beetle on Goldenrod View fullsize

A Locust Borer Beetle on Goldenrod

Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09397.jpg View fullsize
Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09399.jpg View fullsize
A Locust Borer Beetle and a Metallic Green Sweat Bee friend on Goldenrod View fullsize

A Locust Borer Beetle and a Metallic Green Sweat Bee friend on Goldenrod

A Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) View fullsize

A Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)

Common Blue (female) (Polyommatus icarus) View fullsize

Common Blue (female) (Polyommatus icarus)

A Great Golden Digger Wasp on Lesser Calamint View fullsize

A Great Golden Digger Wasp on Lesser Calamint

A Northern Paper Wasp on Goldenrod View fullsize

A Northern Paper Wasp on Goldenrod

An Eastern Yellowjacket Wasp fights vigorously with a Honey Bee View fullsize

An Eastern Yellowjacket Wasp fights vigorously with a Honey Bee

A Northern Paper Wasp on Goldenrod View fullsize

A Northern Paper Wasp on Goldenrod

A Mining Bee with substantial pollen loads on its hind legs View fullsize

A Mining Bee with substantial pollen loads on its hind legs

A Northern Paper Wasp on Goldenrod View fullsize

A Northern Paper Wasp on Goldenrod

A Metallic Green Sweat Bee and A Yellow Jacket Wasp View fullsize

A Metallic Green Sweat Bee and A Yellow Jacket Wasp

A Common Blue Butterfly on an Aster flower View fullsize

A Common Blue Butterfly on an Aster flower

A Drone Fly View fullsize

A Drone Fly

A Honey Bee View fullsize

A Honey Bee

An Ichneumon Wasp, a type of parasitic wasp View fullsize

An Ichneumon Wasp, a type of parasitic wasp

A Common Eastern Bumble Bee View fullsize

A Common Eastern Bumble Bee

A Long Hoverfly (top left) View fullsize

A Long Hoverfly (top left)

Common Blue Butterfly on Dandelion leaf View fullsize

Common Blue Butterfly on Dandelion leaf

A Feather-legged fFy on Solidago View fullsize

A Feather-legged fFy on Solidago

A striped Sweat Bee (lower) with Metallic Green Sweat Bee (upper) View fullsize

A striped Sweat Bee (lower) with Metallic Green Sweat Bee (upper)

A Great Golden Digger Wasp View fullsize

A Great Golden Digger Wasp

Honey Bee on a mission View fullsize

Honey Bee on a mission

A Black-shouldered Drone Fly, in the Hoverfly family View fullsize

A Black-shouldered Drone Fly, in the Hoverfly family

Bumble Bee View fullsize

Bumble Bee

A Great Black Wasp View fullsize

A Great Black Wasp

Juvenile Yellow-bellied Sapsucker View fullsize

Juvenile Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Ravine Sept 16 02 2026DSC09495.jpg View fullsize
Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09501.jpg View fullsize
Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09498.jpg View fullsize
Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09486.jpg View fullsize
Ravine in the mist from St.Clair balcony
Ravine in the mist from St.Clair balcony
Dawn from the St. Clair balcony
Dawn from the St. Clair balcony
Ferrari 250 GTO, 3.0 L, V12 1962-64. Only 36 of these cars were built.
A cicada Killer Wasp on a fig, with a Flesh Fly (left) and a Hoverfly (right). Alexandria Va 2013
A broken pier side ship's bollard hosts a busy Yellow Jacket nest
KWV dusk view
Downtown dusk KWV view
Skyline Drink top
KWV dusk view
A House Sparrow, Toronto Waterfront
KWV, dusk, Toronto
Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09275.jpg
Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09272.jpg
Japanese Anemone or Windflower
Caryopteris
Sugar Maple showing some nice Autumnal hues
Korean Dogwood (Cornus kousa) fruit
The well named Burning Bush (Euonymus alatus) in full Autumnal regalia
New England Aster about to bloom
Queen Anne's Lace (Daucus carota) about to set seed
Cranesbill (a type of Geranium)
Cornus alternifolia (Pagoda Dogwood) showing Autumnal colours in the ravine
Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09559.jpg
Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) seed pod, a host plant for Monarch Butterfly caterpillars
Ravine Sept 16 2026 DSC09570.jpg
Ants, yes. Likely to be Citronella Ants but they could be European Fire Ants. I chose not to test that theory.
Asters hosting a Clouded Sulphur Butterfly and a Leafcutter Bee
A Sweat Bee foraging on Asters
A Sweat Bee on Caryopteris x clandonensis
A Bumblebee on Caryopteris x clandonensis),
Cranesbill hosting a Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) with a Metallic Sweat Bee
Cranesbill hosting a Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) with an incoming Metallic Sweat Bee
An ant foraging on a Cranesbill flower
A Honey Bee on Cranesbill
Common Carder Bumblebee (right) and Brown-belted Bumblebee
Bumble Bees, a Honey Bee and a Metallic Green Sweat Bee on Caryopteris
A Metallic Green Sweat Bee, a Honey Bee and a Cabbage White Butterfly on Asters. There's room for one more insect.....
Bumbles
Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09401.jpg
Metallic Green Sweat Bee with an incoming Striped Sweat Bee
Sulphur Butterfly
Sulphur Butterfly
Ravine Sept 16 2026 DSC09571.jpg
Female Common Blue Butterfly
Bumble Bee
A Pink-edged Sulphur Butterfly
Metallic Green Sweat Bee, a Honey Bee and a Cabbage White Butterfly on Asters
Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09480.jpg
Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09330.jpg
Metallic Green Sweat Bee on a Thistle bloom
Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09537.jpg
Ravine Sept 16 2026 DSC09569.jpg
A Great Black Wasp
Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09550.jpg
Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09462.jpg
Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09311.jpg
A Bumblebee and a Northern Paper Wasp on Golden Rod
Striped Sweat Bee
Northern Paper Wap
A Brown-lipped Snail
Two ants and a Striped Sweat Bee vie for a Cranesbill flower's nectar and pollen
Ravine Sept 16 2026 DSC09585.jpg
Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09316.jpg
Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09322.jpg
Ravine Sept 16 02 2026DSC09565.jpg
Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09321.jpg
Narrow-headed Marsh Fly
Striped Sweat Bee
Honey Bee
Striped Sweat Bee in a Cranesbill flower
Short-horned Grasshoppers
Short-horned Grasshoppers
Short-horned Grasshoppers
Ravine Sept 16 2026 DSC09589.jpg
A Great Black Wasp and two Honey Bees
Cabbage Whites, the lower in a mating refusal posture
More Cabbage White mating refusal
Cabbage White Butterflies in full mating refusal mode
Cabbage Whites in synchronised full refusal mode (9.5, 9.8, 9.7)
Face to face with a Common Blue Butterfly on Asters
A Great Black Wasp sandwich, Honey Bees top and bottom
Common Blue Butterfly (male)
A Northern paper wasp
Common Blue Butterfly (female)
Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09429.jpg
A Short-horned Grasshopper
Ravine Sept 16 2026 DSC09576.jpg
A Great Black Wasp
A Potter Wasp on Solidago (Goldenrod)
A Drone Fly on an Aster Flower
A Bumblebee departs leaving a Striped Sweat Bee on Caryopteris
A Potter Wasp
A Marsh Fly in the Hoverfly family
A Drone Fly (right)
Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09538.jpg
Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09417.jpg
A Pink-edged Sulphur  Butterfly availing of its excellent camouflage
Ravine Sept 16 2026 DSC09596.jpg
Common Eastern Bumblebee
Female Common Blue Butterfly
A Bumblebee
A Metallic Green Sweat Bee on Goldenrod
A Northern Paper Wasp and a Metallic Green Sweat Bee
A Feather-legged Fly on Goldenrod
Metallic Green Sweat Bee
A Honey Bee and a Great Black Wasp
A Locust Borer Beetle on Goldenrod
Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09397.jpg
Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09399.jpg
A Locust Borer Beetle and a Metallic Green Sweat Bee friend on Goldenrod
A Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)
Common Blue (female) (Polyommatus icarus)
A Great Golden Digger Wasp on Lesser Calamint
A Northern Paper Wasp on Goldenrod
An Eastern Yellowjacket Wasp fights vigorously with a Honey Bee
A Northern Paper Wasp on Goldenrod
A Mining Bee with substantial pollen loads on its hind legs
A Northern Paper Wasp on Goldenrod
A Metallic Green Sweat Bee and A Yellow Jacket Wasp
A Common Blue Butterfly on an Aster flower
A Drone Fly
A Honey Bee
An Ichneumon Wasp, a type of parasitic wasp
A Common Eastern Bumble Bee
A Long Hoverfly (top left)
Common Blue Butterfly on Dandelion leaf
A Feather-legged fFy on Solidago
A striped Sweat Bee (lower) with Metallic Green Sweat Bee (upper)
A Great Golden Digger Wasp
Honey Bee on a mission
A Black-shouldered Drone Fly, in the Hoverfly family
Bumble Bee
A Great Black Wasp
Juvenile Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Ravine Sept 16 02 2026DSC09495.jpg
Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09501.jpg
Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09498.jpg
Ravine Sept 16 2026DSC09486.jpg
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