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A couple of bees. Pug Moth caterpillar, bee, plant bug. Foraging bee walks right over immobile lizard. Another bee, of three while I watched, doesn’t stir the lizard. A mess of small rove beetles and a larger (half-inch at best) beetle enjoy some fungus. I think the larger one is Eustrophopsis bicolor. This Two-spotted Diaperis…

Orbweaver with firefly. Crab with fly. Jumping with ant.

Papilio polyxenes female on Butterfly Milkweed. How apropos. Here’s a male… or maybe two of them. ( Lots of flittering about when it comes to these things.) And two of the caterpillars.

Some more views of the young male seen included in yesterday’s post.

This female American Kestrel is not the same as this one. I think this one is a daughter of the first. Daughter with her brother. Here is that brother with his father. A closer look at dad. (All this within 30 minutes!)

An investigation revealed this to be a Bilobed Looper Moth/Megalographa biloba, dead of unknown causes, being recycled by ants. Just sitting out on a Common Milkweed leaf.

My first sighting of a Fifteen-spotted lady Beetle/Anatis labiculata. Only a handful of these have been reported in Brooklyn on iNaturalist. On Common Milkweed…

With their ample leaves, Common Milkweed plants are a convenient place to rest, recoup, and clean up.

Now for some hunters found on Milkweeds, waiting for visitors. In this case, the wait is over…

Northern Mockingbird trying to dislodge male American Kestrel. American Robin trying to do the same thing to female American Kestrel.