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Poison Ivy Leaf-miner Moth
There’s a notable blotch on this large Eastern Poison Ivy leaf. Look closer. And you can see the actual larvae of the moth Cameraria guttifinitella. Two of the four inside mining away (eating the internal layers of leaf).
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Paper Wasps
Northern Paper Wasp/Polistes fuscatus comes in several forms. The one on top is the most elaborate I’ve seen. C.A. Kratzer, who wrote the big book of social wasps, calls this the yellow-spot form. These make umbrella-like paper nests that hang from a short anchor and are not covered by surrounding paper, unlike: I didn’t notice…
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Boardwalk Drama
At Arverne East Nature Preserve in Queens, on the Rockaway Peninsula, I ran into a little drama. This little blue-eyed, red-tipped wasp was has caught a grasshopper nymph. I might have stepped on them both if I wasn’t scanning the concrete/boardwalk here. (The wasp was so intent on her prey that she’d didn’t bulge when…
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Barn Swallow Nest
Mud and I’ll bet that’s horsehair, since there’s a horse ranch right next door to Third House Nature Center in Montauk. This land was the first cattle ranch in the US, which was news to me. And at one point it was a dude ranch! There were no swallows around, but evidence suggests this was…
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American Copper
Lycaena phlaeas can be fairly common some places, but it doesn’t make it to the heart of Brooklyn. I’ve never seen one in the city. This one was out at Montauk recently, slurping up some of that goldenrod nectar.
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