Bees, Bugs and Butterflies

How Pollinators Help the Cuyahoga Region Bloom Traveling Exhibit, Programming and Pollinator Gardens

About Bees, Bugs and Butterflies

The exhibit features images captured by 6 Northeast Ohio Photographers: Jerry Cannon, Danae Wolfe, Jim Roetzel, D. J. Reiser, Anthony Rodgers, and Jeffrey Gibson. Discover our native insects’ various life stages and see how they are hard at work supporting our local biome in this unique photographic journey

Generously Supported by:

Our Community Partners

Akron Community Foundation
Akron-Summit County Public Library
Chasing Bugs
Community Life Collaborative
Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park
Cuyahoga Community College
Cuyahoga Valley National Park
Judson Park

LEAD for Pollinators
The Nature Center at Shaker Lakes
Ohio Arts Council
Summit County Courthouse
Tinker’s Creek Watershed Partners
Twinsburg Public Library
West Creek Reservation, Cleveland Metroparks
Western Reserve Academy

Online Gallery

Locust Borer

Painted Lady Butterfly

Dunning’s Miner

Common Bumble Bee on Blueberry Flowers and Berries

Transverse-banded Flower Fly

Milkweed Bugs on Milkweed

Luna Moth on Trillium

Tulip Tree Silk Moth

Mosquito on Jewelweed

Monarch Caterpillar

Margined Leatherwing Soldier Beetles

Wavy-lined Emerald Moth

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly

Bumble Bee in Flight with Wingstem

Great Spangled Fritillary

Clearwing Hummingbird Moth

Red Admiral Butterfly

Monarch Butterflies on Boneset

Ambush Bug

Banded Tussock or Sycamore Tussock on Common Milkweed

Blue-winged Wasp

Cecropia Moth Caterpillar (underside)

Clouded Sulphur Butterfly

Cecropia Moth

Feather-legged Fly

Flesh Fly with Frost on It

Honey Bee Swarm

Green Sweat Bee with Pollen on It

Hoverflies on Chicory

Longhorn Bee

Peck’s Skipper Butterfly

Red-necked False Blister Beetle

Robber Fly with Hover Fly Prey

Rosy Maple Moth

Saddleback Caterpillar

Spicebush Swallowtail Caterpillar

Spiny Oakworm Moth

Swallowtail Caterpillar

Turbulent Phosphila Caterpillars

Virginia Ctenucha Moth

Bald-faced Hornet

Ailanthus Webworm Moth

Kendall Hills, Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Artists in Exhibit

Jim Roetzel is an Ohio native who has lived in Summit County his entire life. Growing up near Cuyahoga Valley National Park and Summit Metro Parkes, Jim has photographed all over the U.S. and Canada, following nature’s rhythms, migrations, and seasons. His work regularly appears in nation and local publications, including Audubon, Yahoo, Nature Conservancy, Birder’s World, Ducks Unlimited, Little Brown, National Parks, Ohio, Smithsonian and Time-Life.

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After Jerry Cannon retired from his career in the telecommunications industry in Akron, he turned his interests toward photography, a long-time area of fascination. Over the last decade, this self-taught photographer has pursued his passion non-stop as a second career, working primarily in Summit Metro Parks. His captivating and diverse mages soon came to the attention of Summit Metro Parks staff, who frequently features Jerry’s work on the Park’s social media pages and other communications. 

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Jeffrey Gibson is a retired biology teacher from Revere High School and has photographed extensively in the Cuyahoga River watershed, parks and green spaces. He earned First Place in the Ansel Adams International Photo Contest, and his images have been displayed in the Cleveland Institute of Music, University Hospitals and Cleveland Hopkins Airport. His images were selected by the Akron Symphony Orchestra for a musical tribute to Cuyahoga Valley National Park, and he has published 41 of them in the Park calendar over the last 10 years.

 

Anthony Rodgers was born and raised in Cuyahoga County and has a life-long interest in the natural world. He earned BS in Zoology from The Ohio State University and a Master’s in Education from Cleveland State University. Anthony has expertise in assessing wetlands, surveying snakes and studying beetles around the Cleveland area. Currently he is a high school science teacher in Cleveland where he teaches Conservation Biology. 

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Denny Reiser is a science and math educator turned renowned nature photographer of Northeast Ohio’s many environmental faces. He taught math and science for 30 years in Bay Village and Aurora, and was a seasonal Ranger for Cuyahoga Valley National Park for 6 years, frequently leading school groups. He has spent more than a decade as a Volunteer Photographer for CVNP, and his work can be viewed throughout the park, in the gift shops, in many publications and online. 

Danae Wolfe is a macro photographer and conservation educator. She launched her organization, Chasing Bugs, in 2015. She began photographing nature as a young girl, but it wasn’t until her first environmental studies course in college when she fell in love with the natural world and environmental education. Through photography, public speaking and writing, Danae teaches others about the beauty, diversity and importance of insects and spiders, while sharing ways to support these animals in the home landscape. Her career includes serving as a naturalist at Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Cleveland Metroparks and currently with the Ohio Nature Conservancy as Digital Marketing Manager.

Traveling Exhibit

 Stay tuned for additional exhibit locations!

Learn more about Cuyahoga Valley Insects by visiting this blog by Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

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