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One month or so after fledging, the young American Kestrels are out and about, usually found by their plaintive cries. This one was hovering over Lizard Hill. (That’s what I’d call it if I was a Kestrel!) These two were by the Civil War soldiers monument. By the Sophie Calle exhibit, a.k.a. Woodchuck Hill. On…

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…