Ramsey Canyon Racoon Family ~ While birding in Ramsey Canyon in Southeast Arizona, I spotted this family of racoons, a parent and three babies. They were high on a rocky cliff along the canyon walls.
This beautiful lime green beetle with purple legs (imagine this being real!) It is a Beyer's Leaf Chafer Beetle (Chrysina beyeri), which feeds on oaks in the mountains of Southeast Arizona. This one was photographed in Madera Canyon, Arizona, and was apparently "chafing" the leaves here, whatever that means :-)
Plains Lubber ~ This large grasshopper-type insect was about three inches long, and was crossing the road in Montosa Canyon in the Santa Rita Mountains in Southeast Arizona.
