I always like seeing lady beetles. They usually seem so busy and industrious. This one was pootling along a passion vine.
Category Archives: Animals
Neoscona theisi spider
I believe this is a neoscona theisi spider, which is one of the orb weaving spiders. What I know for sure is that when I walked up the trail 30 minutes earlier, the web wasn’t there. On my return, the sun caught the web and I was able to avoid blundering through it.
You can lead a horse to water …
A horse wades through the sluggish waters of the Waipi’o River in Waipi’o Valley.
To the winner goes the … tail?
I saw the gold dust day gecko above on the edge of the roof with a trophy in its mouth. A fish steak perhaps? Lowering my eyes a tad, I spotted the common house gecko below and it wasn’t hard to fill in the blank. These confrontations are a regular occurrence and the day geckos usually win.
For more information about geckos, go to geckoweb.org.
Passion vine butterfly
A passion vine butterfly takes a break on a windy day in Kohala.
Anole on a line
I found this green anole making its way along a washing line.
Mock orange abuzz
A bee forages through the blooms of a mock orange.
You see me, I see you
Walking down a local road one day, I noticed this goat eyeing me through a stand of trees.
