A large, long, green caterpillar seen from the side. It has beautiful black, yellow, and red spots and little yellow pointed legs is eating the edges of a leaf on a wild Four O'Clock plant.
A large, long, green caterpillar seen from above. It has beautiful black, yellow, and red spots on each side with black stripes speckled with tiny yellow dots running above them, and a yellow spiked tail at the end. It's balanced on the stem and leaf of a wild Four O'Clock plant.

A view of a large moth from above as it flies next to and feeds on the nectar of Bee Balm flowers with their spiky pink petals.

A cluster of dozens of Golden Aster flowers, each of which has about 16 long thin yellow petals that are rounded at the end and deep golden orange center.

A Prickly Pear cactus plant. The main plant is a series of branching round flat green pads with thorns sticking out. Out of three of the pads are three delicate light yellow flowers with orange tints. One flower is still closed, one is just opening, and one is fully open. In the center of the open flower are dozens of this stamen with yellow pollen at the tips.