I'm midway through an insect monitoring project at the Fermilab prairies. My primary focus is bumblebees and honeybees, but I'll take pictures of most everything I find (and will cooperate). K5, FA100 f2.8 macro, and OGPS module ensure I know when and where the insects were so I can compile the critical data.
So far so good - only a few shots once in a while lack GPS data. Flickr displays the images on a map easily so I can group everything - and Lightroom does as well, I'll have to see how I can segregate species data for display.
I've found one very rare bumblebee (B. rufocinctus) active, and a few unusual ones. I've got probably about another month to gather data, after that we're in the decline for insects. The images are available for view on my Flickr site, and have their own folder called Insects at Fermilab. Not all the images are what I'd consider great quality - but they're valuable for identification purposes. I have collected some really good images, though.
https://www.flickr.com/gp/ter-or/9kM8md
I've learned a few things during the project, such as autofocus doesn't like brown and green dragonflies perching on brown and green plants in front of brown and green backgrounds...who'd have guessed that?
Fortunately it's very easy to switch to manual focus and since it's so bright the manual images have been stellar.
Fermilab is a Dept. of Energy property, and still doing active science. The land above is a lot of reconstructed and some remnant prairie, plus creeks, some ponds and some more managed areas. They even have some bison in one area. They used to do a midnight bike ride, which was so fun because most of the property is DARK at night, very novel for us suburbians. I've really come to appreciate the prairies like never before, the variety of plants and wildlife is astonishing.