Beetlemania begins…

I saw more than two dozen beetle species last week in a yard and along a nearby street. Plum Curculo above…you might have to take a seat here, this is going to continue into tomorrow…

Oak Leafrolling Weevil

One of the numerous Agrilus species

Kuschelina vians

Rove beetle

Six Spotted Tiger

Wrinkled Soldier

Agrilus cyanescens

Basswood Leafminer

Harpalinae subfamily something

Subgenus Loxopeza

Ellychnia diurnal firefly

Red-collared Click

Unknown

Fiery Searcher (These last two were dead on the road. )

This was the view at 2pm Wednesday, only in real life it was brighter and, most creepily, yellower. This is like a thick fog, only it’s smoke. On a clear day, you can see the Watchung Mountains in New Jersey twenty miles away. Here we can’t even see the Bay, seven long avenue blocks or a little less than a mile away.