Kristin Wyatt

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Outside laying in the mud, taking pictures of bugs. Website: www.KristinWyatt.com INaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/people/kristinwyatt

A very wet Ruby-throated Hummingbird sits on a fence in the rain.
Profile shot of a bright pink moth with a golden mane and green pee shaped eyes.
A creamy colored moth with a brown cross stripe on its back, spreads its wings to reveal a bright orange color underneath.
Macro shot of glossy, star shaped, pink and white flowers.
A black and yellow striped moth with lovely red markings on its clear wings.
A small thread-waisted black wasp with a very long name flies towards white flowers.
A dark orange butterfly, with brown stripes and circles on its wings, feeds from white flowers.
A yellowish orange mushroom pushes up through the mossy forest floor.
A large bee with smoky colored wings feeds from the white flowers of the dogbane plant.
A shiny green beetle with hints of copper on its side, climbs up a green leaf on a dogbane plant.
A black and blue butterfly with white spots on its body and orange spots on its wings, hangs from the white flowers of the dogbane plant.
Wooden stairs weave through moss covered boulders in a quiet forest.
Two small orange, spotted, butterflies with white bellies, sit together in the dogbane flower patch.
A black wasp with a white stripe on its waist, flies towards the white flowers of the dogbane plant.
A brown butterfly with a white patch on its wings, hangs upside down from the white flowers of the dogbane plant.
A lovely gold and orange wasp feeds from the white flowers of the dogbane plant.
A partially lit deer stands in a green grass field with yellow flowers.
A dark blue dragonfly with clear wings perches on a blade of tall green grass.
A rainbow rising over the green waters of Watauga Lake on a stormy day.
An adorable little chunky red squirrel sits eating a nut in the crook of a mossy tree.
A perfect, tiny, red mushroom stands in front of a dark cave in a moss covered forest.
A dark blue and white bird with a crested head, perches on a branch.
Snapping turtle head deep bellow the water.
A brown dragonfly with brown stripes on its wings, flies low above the water where she can deposit eggs.
An orange and black butterfly that looks like a monarch except it is smaller and has a black stripe going across the wings. It often hears me say "Oh...it's just a Viceroy!"
Portrait of a yellow striped, wrinkly turtle, with a red stripe on the side of its head.
Close up shot of a dark dragonfly with brown and white patches on it's wings.
Red fire crackers bursting apart and flying into the air with sparks flying.
A blue butterfly with white spots, salts beside a yellow butterfly with black stripes.
A young, long necked, maroon stripey bird, sits on a moss covered log in the forest.
Two strange black flies with wonderful white beards....cuddling.
A tiny grey and white jumping spider keeps an eye...many eyes on me between the milkweed leaves.
A tiny bright green spider works on its web.
A small purple crab with bright yellow eyes crawls under water, across the sand.
A dark grackle, with its bright eyes, lunges off the edge or a rocky wall.
An orange beetle, with black spots on its wings, crawls on white petals of a daisy.
Close up shot of a carpenter bee on a black eyed susan flower with yellow petals.
Close up of A Great Blue Heron holding a fish in its long beak.
This small, stripey, mimic hover fly is great to have in your garden. The adults are amazing pollinators and the larvae love eating delicious aphids.
A bumble bee perched on purple flowers.
Portrait of a blue jay looking down.
Two orange butterflies sit on the white flowers of a lovely green shrub.
A tiny hairy beetle covered in yellow pollen on white yarrow flowers. At first glance it just looks like a little stripey bee.
A not so pretty, angry, young woodpecker with beak open ready to fight. Black and white spotted wings and spots of red just coming in on its grey head.
A bee mimic fly with yellow stripes on it's shoulders and face, black and red wings and abdomen. (The female feather-legged fly deposits one or more eggs on a host insect, typically a subadult or adult squash bug, stink bug, or other true bug. Only one of the eggs can survive within the host. Upon hatching, the larva chews into its host's body and consumes its body fluids, without killing the host.)
A deer peeks around a moss covered fence in the woods.
Silhouette of a raven flying overhead.
Many tiny white flowers form a ball shape with white spikes. Buttonbush is a host plant for 25 species of Lepidoptera!
A birds soars in a blue sky with stripey white clouds.
A very small cream spider with white stripes and spiny legs.
A large light blue dragonfly with black edges on the wings.
Close up of an orange and white oranda goldfish with its mouth open.
Spots of a curled up fawn show through the tall grass.
A bumpy, neon yellow, dog vomit slime mold expands across a log.
A brown butterfly with a large white spot on its wings, sits on a pinkish purple iris.
A fluffy black and yellow bee hovers outside a long white flower.
A small white butterfly with black spots and stripey antennae.
Portrait of a dark grey pigeon, its red eye half closed in an evil way.
A medium sized gray spider, with brown legs and a brown stripe down the middle, carries her egg sac.
Night trail camera video of a big buck with velvet antlers coming in.