I hadn’t been to the Naval Cemetery Landscape since 2015. In anticipation of helping with a bug and bird tour last Saturday, I visited the day before. It’s quite a special place.
Note the raised boardwalk: it was built to not disrupt the remains below.
Some of the sights:
Native lady beetles are uncommon locally. This is one of them: Polished Lady Beetle/Cycloneda munda. They can be mistaken for spotless forms of the Asian Lady Beetle/Harmonia ayridis, but the pronotum pattern here is quite distinct.
I saw four species of potter wasps, my first of the year, all gathering food from the Golden Alexanders/Zizia. One of them was this Walden’s Potter Wasp/Ancistrocerus waldenii. This seems to be the first iNat sighting of this species in NYC.
Three species of dragonfly. None of them frequent perches…
You know who. Just one, but she was laying eggs on Common Milkweed.
Bald-faced Hornets scraping wood fibers off the architecture.
Backyard and Beyond 
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