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.”

Insect Fashion

Best-dressed Invasive. Spotted Lanternfly/Lycorma delicatula

Color splotch! Black Swallowtail/Papilio polyxenes

Pure killer. Eastern Cicada-killer Wasp/Sphecius speciosus

Off the rack? Apantesis moth wing.

Can’t touch this. Great Golden Digger Wasp/Sphex ichneumoneus

Pin-stripe equivalent Macaria genus moth.

Red Milkweed Beetle/Tetraopes tetrophthalmus resort wear.

True bug formal. Lygaeidae family.

Geometric… Oblique Streaktail/Allograpta obliqua

Basics… Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp/Sceliphron caementarium

4 responses to “Insect Fashion”

  1. Elizabeth White

    Loved these. Though since I am not very fashionable, I’d also like their formal names. I know there are a few I’ve never met.

    1. Now updated with names

  2. elegant creatures, thanks.

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