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Much of the coast of Brooklyn is inaccessible, but a whole new swath of public access has just opened to the north of Bush Terminal Park. This is the Make NYC complex. They’re going to restore this old pier as park, but already there’s a lot more bay-fronting territory there there has been. I was…

I’ve put a lot of Cynipid gall wasps, who create galls on oak trees, up recently. Something I haven’t given much attention to in recent years are the Caryomyia genus midges who create galls on hickories. In this case, it’s a Pignut Hickory/Carya glabra.

A very ornamental late October grass. With a late Spotted Cucumber Beetle/Diabrotica undecimpunctata clambering around in there.

Juvenile Red-tailed Hawk. Adult Red-tailed Hawk, pretty much the same place a couple of days later. Another day’s juvenile and adult combo. And another day’s.

October 14. The day after a nor’easter, I went to Rockaway Beach. There were a lot of surfers. And this bee. There were quite a few of them on Northern Seaside Goldenrod. The only other bee in evidence was the Common Eastern Bumble. These three, bigger and with shorter antenna, are females of the same…

Solidago sempervirens is still blooming into late October. What a trooper! It’s where we find our last bees of the year. These two Eastern Common Bumblees were spotted 10/14. Look at that pollen bundle! October 17: a small Lasioglossom. No pictures, but on Oct 18, more Common Eastern Bumbles on goldenrod in the tree pits…