Backyard and Beyond

Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.

As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”

Mountain Mint Time

Mexican Grass-carrying Wasp/Isodontia mexicana

Bombus

Megachile

Sachem/Atalopedes campestris

Hump-backed Beewolf/Philanthus gibbosus

Common Eastern Physocephala/Physocephala tibialis

Hidalgo Mason Wasp/Euodynerus hidalgo

Lunate Longhorn-cuckoo Bee/Triepeolus lunatus

Two-spotted Longhorn Bee/Melissodes bimaculatus

Bombus

Four-banded Stink Bug Wasp/Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus. (Males have five bands.)

Pycnanthemum.

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