@worktoplaytoworkto submitted: Got my camera out again a few days ago!
Butterfly guess is Pipevine Swallowtail! Dragonflies are very chill and let me get extremely close. I've never seen a grasshopper that orange (pictures are unedited) and the spider was so cool!! Maybe 1.5" in size at most. I've been calling it a zipper spider, but I have no idea if that name is accurate. Location is Fort Worth-ish!
(I'm getting a new macro lens today and I'm SO excited!! More bugs to come soon, I hope)
Ooooh a macro lens that'll be fun. Definitely feel free to submit more pals. Yes, the butterfly is a pipevine swallowtail! Dragonfly looks like a swift setwing. LOOK at the little drops of water on the grasshopper's antennae?? Precious. Looks like a differential grasshopper, so that shade of orange isn't unusual. Zipper spider is a cute name! They do indeed have little zippers on their webs. They're called stabilimenta. And the friendly girl in the web is a juvenile yellow garden spider, Argiope aurantia :)
