2025 - Summer Seasonal Photos
Submitted by Great Rivers MMN Chapter Members, Summer 2025

by Matthew Self

by Matthew Self

by Matthew Self

by Matthew Self

by Matthew Self
August Full Moon
2025
by Mary Dueren

Bald Cypress
by Barbara Cerutti
Beaver at the Heart of the Country
by Don Bauer
Bluebird at Little Creve Coeur Ecological Area
by Sean Tracy

Bombus Vagan on Echinacea Purpurea (Half-Black Bumblebee on Purple Coneflower)
by Valerie Klipfel
Carolina Wren
by Mary Dueren

Eagle Sky at Heart of the Country
by Don Bauer
Eastern Bluebird is also a regular occurrence on the trail
by Mary Dueren
Fawn and Doe White Tailed Deer with Male Cowbird on back of Doe Marais Temps Clair Conservation Area
by Sean Tracy
Fee-Fee creek under the 364 bridge
by Mary Dueren

Female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (pamilio glaucus) on native Joe Pye Weed (eutrochium purpureum) plant
by Valerie Klipfel
Female Fiery Skipper caught by a Crab Spider Little Creve Coeur Ecological Area
by Sean Tracy
Female Pipevine Swallowtails, Female Spicebush Swallowtail, and Bee on Thistle Little Indian Creek Conservation Area
by Sean Tracy

Frog at Little Creek Nature Area
by Ellen Harmon

Great Spangled Fritillary
by Don Bauer
Great Spangled Frittilary (Argynnis cybele) on Echinacea simulata
St. Joe State Park
Renee Benage
Green bee on Partridge Pea
July 23, 2025
Oakville, MO
by Erin Nichols

Intermittent Swamp at North End of Tilles Park Lake with Pneumatophores
4-20-25
Geoffrey Stillwell

Intermittent Wetland at McDonnell Park
5-21-2025
Geoffrey Stillwell

Katydid on leaf after the rain
by Kris Monahan

Little blue heron
Forest Park
by Kris Monahan
Male Monarchs on Thistle at Little Creve Coeur Ecological Area
by Sean Tracy

Monarch Butterfly at Queny Park on Buttonbush
by Sherri Schmidt
Morning dove content on the bird bath
by Mary Dueren
Northern House Wren parents scold us as we check the box
LCCEA
by Mary Dueren

Pileated Woodpecker
by Don Bauer
Pipevine Swallowtail Caterpillar
July 27, 2025
Oakville, MO
by Erin Nichols

Pipevine Swallowtail
June 26, 2025
Oakville, MO
by Erin Nichols

Powder Valley Entrance
by Barbara Cerutti

Racoon Babies at Heart of the Country
by Don Bauer
Regal Frittilary (Argynnis idalia) on Monarda fistulosa
Friendly Prairie
July 1, 2025
by Renee Benage
Ruby-throat hummingbird threatening other hummers
by Mary Dueren
Seepage dancers Damselflies mating (Argia bipunctulata)
St. Francois State Park
June 30, 2025
by Renee Benage

Skink at Powder Valley Conservation Nature Center
by Barbara Cerutti
Sunflowers at Cliff Cave Park
by Erin Nichols

Three Legged Box Turtle at my house
by Barb Cerutti

Tiemeyer Lake Before Sunrise
3-18-2025
by Geoffrey Stillwell

Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly on Prairie Blazing Star
by Ellen Harmon
Two bees on American Beautyberry, July 24- Rockwoods Reservation
by Erin Nichols

Very Cold Day at Sunrise at Tiemeyer Lake
by Geoffrey Stillwell

Walking Stick
by Barb Cerutti

West Arm of Wild Acres Lake
3-12-2025
by Geoffrey Stillwell