The Swallowtails are beautiful butterflies, many of them are native to North America.
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Metallic Green Bees
Metallic green bees sometimes known by their genus name Agapostemon are native to the Americas.
Virginia Ctenucha
The Virginia Ctenucha is a species of moth native to the eastern part of North America.
Banded Longhorn Beetle
The banded longhorn beetle is a North American flower longhorn beetle.
European Chafer Beetle
The European chafer beetle is native to Europe, but it has become an invasive pest in North America.
European Water Frogs
The frogs in the pictures below are European water frogs from the genus Pelophylax.
Milkweed
Milkweed is the common name for the flowering plants in the genus Asclepias.
Viceroy Butterfly
The viceroy is a species of butterfly that protects itself from predators by looking like the poisonous and foul tasting monarch butterfly.
Monarch Butterfly
Monarch butterflies are famous for their migrations from as far north as Canada to all the way down to Mexico.
Sand Lizard
Sand lizards are a European lizard species.
Potato Beetle
The Colorado potato beetle is a highly destructive pest that eats the foliage of the potato plant thereby destroying potato crops.
Dandelions
Dandelions are one of the most common wild plant native to Eurasia and North America.
Silverfish
Silverfish are wingless insects that live inside human dwellings and eat paper and other sources of carbohydrates.
White Trillium
The white trillium is a beautiful flower in the genus Trillium native to most of North America.
Hemp
Hemp used to be a traditional crop for its fiber and seeds all over Europe.
Ginkgo Biloba
The Ginkgo biloba also known in English as the maindenhair tree is one of the living fossils that we can encounter almost every day.
Gypsy Moth
The gypsy moth is an invading species and a really harmful pest in North America.
Wild Poppy
The common poppy is a beautiful red flower that grows wild in most of Europe.
Raccoon
Raccoons are probably the most annoying, disgusting, and destrive animals on the entire North American continent.
Marsh Gladiolus
In spite of its name the marsh gladiolus does not really grow in marshes.