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.”

A New One

Fluttering at the dune end of Plumb Beach recently…

An adult antlion, the first I’ve seen in NYC. This is a female Brchynemurus abdominalis. (Which makes it the first species of antlion I’ve identified.)

This one is a male. I presume of the same species, for he was nearby.

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