A cool morning found several Two-spotted Scoliid Wasps unusually still. Common Eastern Bumblebee, too. There’s also little black and red beetle in the flowers that I didn’t notice at the time.

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The larval stage of Acronicta americana is more spectacular than the adult moth. These can be white-haired as well as yellow, but the long black setae are found in all forms. (Anything so extravagantly attired should be expected to be irritable to the skin.) They’re generalists and find ash, elm, hickory, oak, willow, and several…

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Try as it might, this Double-crested Cormorant could not swallow this Summer Flounder right off the edge of Lower Manhattan.

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Reflected in two different Polished Lady Beetles/Cycloneda munda. (Nice detail on the head and pronotum patterns here, btw, helpful in distinguishing these from the occasional other spot-less ladybugs one comes across)

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To make a prairie, says Emily Dickinson, you need one clover and one bee. (Also, to be frank today, some seed mixes.) Link to the ED poem has a parenthetical 1755 in title, which has led to at least one person on Facebook saying the poem was written in 1755, which would be remarkable since…

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Two or three species of ants are on this Cheeto.

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Scenes around the Old Chapel at Green-Wood. The Red-tailed Hawk and the male American Kestrel are perched at the same spot (on different days).

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Twelve-spotted Skimmer female. Two males, one missing half a hindwing. Good chance of seeing these on Sunday on my last Green-Wood Bugging Out Walk of the year. There may still be tickets available…

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