A common digging grasshopper. What camouflage! I never would have seen it if it didn't hop. It blends in with
the shells perfectly.
Common Eastern Bumble Bee - Found across Eastern North America and west into Ohio. Threatened by habitat loss especially grasslands. A needed pollinator.
Common Eastern Bumble Bee on a fall afternoon in CT
A type of Orb Weaver spider.
August - CT
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - August
Stewart B. McKinney Wildlife Refuge - Salt Meadow Unit. Westbrook CT. USFWS