Ostentatiously flashy

Common Buckeye (Junonia coenia)

Eastern saltmarsh mosquito (Aedes sollicitans)

Seaside dragonlet (Erythrodiplax berenice)

European praying mantis (Mantis religiosa)

Argus Tortoise Beetle (Chelymorpha cassidea)

The saltmarsh caterpillar (Estigmene acrea)

A horsefly 

Marsh fly (Dilophus spinipes)

The suburban prairie

"At low tide, the wind blowing across Spartina grass sounds like wind of the prairie. When the tide is in, the gentle music of moving water is added to the prairie rustle.... " John and Mildred Teal, Life and Death of the Salt Marsh, 1969