Well, I’ve had pretty much zero time for blogging since the last post on Friday and won’t have time to blog again until Sunday, so this is going to be a light week. You’ll get a double dose of Swarm Sunday this week, but until then I can at least throw a photo up for Well-Nigh Wordless Wednesday.  This week, I present a pair of soldier beetles in love:

Soldier beetle lovin’

Found these little lovebirds (and hundreds of their closest relatives) on a flower about three weeks ago at the Duke Gardens in Durham, NC.  The gardens were so wonderful that I actually took more photos of flowers than I did bugs.  That’s a rare thing for me!  But now I feel like I need to get in all the insect photos I can.  It’s cooled down a lot over the last few days, so it’s only a matter of time before winter sets in.

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