Insects

Blue dasher on a stick at Prospect Park

A white peacock and a leopard lacewing rest on a Norfolk Island pine at the Butterfly Vivarium

An adult dragonfly with brown and green striped body and long tail, dead on a rock.

Dead lance-tailed darner in Three Finger Canyon

A butterfly with brown wings speckled with white spots on a green leafy branch.

Parthenos sylvia at Butterfly Pavilion

A pink lotus flower with yellow stamens is next to a white lotus flower with red stamens.

Lotus flowers at Denver Botanic Gardens

A dragonfly rests on a green leaf against a dark background.

Great Spreadwing at Denver Botanic Gardens

A pink flower contains a honey bee on its stamen, with several unopened buds and green foliage visible around it.

Bee at work on a hollyhock flower at Berkeley Pit

Fork-tailed bush katydid on an orange daylily at Spring Valley Nature Sanctuary