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Corn-ithian
The heads of the columns at the Litchfield Villa, once the home of real estate baron E.C. Litchfield, are decorated with corn cobs instead of acanthus leaves. Alexander Jackson Davis, one of the pre-eminent architects of the day, designed this Italianate pile, which was completed in 1857. The rest of the brick building probably looked…
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More Kestrel
On July 19th, with one sibling already fledged, there were still two females in the Chinatown nest. Here’s dad again. He is notably spotless. (Something he didn’t pass on to his male offspring.)
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Raptor Wednesday
More than a month after I saw my first American Kestrel fledglings, there were three nestlings in this Chinatown cornice cavity on July 15th. They were raring to go! On the morning of Juy 19th, one of them, the only male, was out and about. Here he is with dad in the background. The proud…
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Monarch Monday
Feeding on burdock. This one is on a white-flowered cultivar of Swamp Milkweed. And, same butterfly, whatever this is…
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Big Beetles
Female and male Reddish-brown Stag Beetles/Lucanus capreolus showing up at the BBC’s bug expo in Prospect Park. There were a couple males: one landed on this guy and hung around a while… The next day, I found some Broad-necked Root Borers/Prionus laticollis making more of themselves. Note how much smaller the male is but how…
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Squash Vine Borer
One of our most elaborate day-flying moths: Eichlinia curcurbitae is a clearwing with waspy attitude. As the common name, in the title, suggests, the larvae feed inside stalks of various things, including cultivated squash, zucchini, and pumpkin.
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