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Last Minute Costume Ideas
Mothra, or Mosura, with egg. The egg is much too avian for a Lepidoptera, but otherwise… Here’s the larval-stage caterpillar. A bit beetle-larval-ish. And back to the adult or imago, wrestling with fellow-kaiju Godzilla, or Gojira. From Mothra vs. Godzilla, 1964. In the 1992 re-boot, the pupal stage is show as well, silk-wrapped to the…
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Grass Screen
A very ornamental late October grass. With a late Spotted Cucumber Beetle/Diabrotica undecimpunctata clambering around in there.
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Raptor Wednesday
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.
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Late Late Bee
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…
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Northern Seaside Goldenrod
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…
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