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.”

Things Seen On Hotel Room Windows

The presence of several spider webs suggested that even on the 21st floor, there was good eating. I saw two moth species, two beetle species, a caddisfly, flies, and quite a few mud-dauber wasps, although most of them weren’t stopping on the windows.

This, like the second picture above, is a Yellow Poplar Weevil/Odontopus calceatus. At one point three of them were on a 9th floor Pittsburgh window.

One response to “Things Seen On Hotel Room Windows”

  1. Wow! They all heard you were in town and stopped by so you could take their picture! How marvelous.

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