Here is a collection of beasties photographed on Riverside Road, Britt on Sunday afternoon and on Monday on my way back from Parry Sound.

Clouded Sulphur Butterfly and a hoverfly …

Translucent wings …

On common vetch ..

One of the few local  “Canadian serviceberry, chuckleberry, currant-tree, Juneberry, Shadblow Serviceberry, Shadblow, Shadbush, Shadbush Serviceberry, Sugarplum, Thicket Serviceberry”  berries unaffected by some sort of blight.

This looks like one of the dauber wasps …

 

Hover fly:

Probably another hover fly …

Fritillary, perhaps Aphrodite

This Hummingbird Clearwing Moth visited for a few seconds, always hovering to take nectar …

Moving to another bloom with proboscis coiled …

Refuelling …

One of the few Monarchs I’ve seen this year, possibly laying eggs on the milkweed leaves …

Looks like an orange belted bumblebee …

Another one, the only one I’ve seen on wood …

“Who knows what danger lurks …..?” under the milkweed blossoms.

I just found a Peterson “Field Guide to Moths” to ID this one  and have narrowed it down to one of the Grass Veneer Moths.  The whiter ones I posted earlier are other GVMs.

I didn’t see these Small Eastern Milkweed Bugs until much later last summer.  Apparently a lack of observation!

And, finally, for a change of pace, a Pickerel Weed just starting to bloom …

The next post will feature our visit to Manitoulin Island on July 12/13.   We’ll get a break from all of those bugs!