Bumble/Tiger Swallowtail.
A true bug, meaning an insect that sucks its food, and an unknown bee.
Another bee I can’t identify.
Don’t forget the butterflies, fools for flowers, too. One of the sulphurs, I’ve never been able to distinguish them.
Whoa, Nelly! Look at the patterning on this Oblique Streaktail (Allograpta obliqua)! Going to work on getting a better picture of one of these.
Another flower fly, which reminds me that there’s a new field guide to flower flies of the NE.
The invasive Sculptured Resin Bee, trouble for carpenter bees, whose nest sites they grab. Also a pollinator for kudzu.
An unknown bee, or is it a wasp? Speaking of wasps, I’ll have more this week…
Flower Fiends
Published August 6, 2019 Fieldnotes 2 CommentsTags: bees, Brooklyn, butterflies, flies, flowers, insects, wasps
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