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At the Calvin University Ecosystem Preserve and Native Gardens in Grand Rapids, I spotted an Appalachian Brown/Lethe appalachia, although to be honest I first thought it was another of the rather similar Lethe species.

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Painted Beauty American Lady Black Swallowtail male Pipevine Swallowtail male Eastern Tailed-Blue Summer (presumably) Azure Clouded Sulphur Common Sootywing

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I have been on the lookout for Dogbane Leaf Beetles/Chrysochus auratus. They can potentially be found anywhere Hemp Dogbane/Apocynum cannabinum is found, for they eat the stuff. They’re known in NYC, including my subdivision thereof (Brooklyn). But it was only this past weekend that I finally came across several, including at least three mating pairs.…

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Marthalicia Matarrita’s Grey Hawk at 500 W. 135th St., part of the Audubon Mural Project. Spotted in Upper Manhattan recently, just before seeing two vocal no, three! no, four! Peregrine Falcons overhead. (Was in the car, couldn’t photograph.) Must have been a whole family above the avenue. Wow!

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The presence of several spider webs suggested that even on the 21st floor, there was good eating. I saw two moth species, two beetle species, a caddisfly, flies, and quite a few mud-dauber wasps, although most of them weren’t stopping on the windows. This, like the second picture above, is a Yellow Poplar Weevil/Odontopus calceatus.…

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One gets to be a little myopic living in a place. For instance, I was not even aware there was an Eastern Fox Squirrel/Sciurus niger out there. They’re found in most of the eastern half of the country, excepting New England and New York/New Jersey, the places I’m most familiar with. I spotted these in…

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