More flowers, grasses, and insects seen at Flushing Township N.P.

Fall brings purple asters and sumac leaves turn red Dime sized Deptford Pinks plus a black ladybyrd beetle with orange spots Coreopsis and Purple Vetch color the prairie in early summer
Queen Anne's Lace provides nectar for many insects like this Viceroy Phlox prefer the partial shade of the trees that border the prairie Joe-pye Weed hosts a Monarch in its classic pose
Ladybyrd beetle sitting high atop a grass seed head Waterdrops capture an inverted view of the tree line This Woodland Sunflower prefers the flood plane down by the Flint River