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But are still feeding ’em. False Milkweed Bug/Lygaeus turcicus Four-toothed Mason Wasp/Monobia quadridens Rusty Spider Wasp/Tachypompilus ferrugineus Coelioxys sharp-tailed bee male Coelioxys sharp-tailed bee female Margined Leatherwing Beetle/Chauliognathus marginatus ! Northern Italian Fence Lizard/Podarcis siculus ssp. campestris. A ringer: not so much feeding on the flowers are using as a lookout, and perhaps hunting for visiting insects.

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Sphaerophoria genus fly Mediterranean Katydid/Phaneroptera nana nymph Greater Anglewing/Microcentrum rhombifolium nymph Carolinian Elegant/Meromacrus acutus–a wasp-mimicking fly usually found further south. This is the second NY state iNat observation, the first being seen a bit further up the Hudson two days earlier. Emerald Jumping Spider/Paraphidippus aurantius (honorary “bug”) Twice-stabbed Stink Bugs/Cosmopepla lintneriana Villa genus fly. Inactive…

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Sightings of female and male American Kestrel about 45 minutes and a 1000 feet apart.

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Male perching on Common Milkweed pod. Female ovipositing on Common Milkweed pod. Have not seen this before: usually they lay on the underside of the leaves. Especially on young plants, before they flower, much less fruit. A couple more eggs. I spotted this one for my last Green-Wood Members’ walk. A couple of days later,…

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Best-dressed Invasive. Spotted Lanternfly/Lycorma delicatula Color splotch! Black Swallowtail/Papilio polyxenes Pure killer. Eastern Cicada-killer Wasp/Sphecius speciosus Off the rack? Apantesis moth wing. Can’t touch this. Great Golden Digger Wasp/Sphex ichneumoneus Pin-stripe equivalent Macaria genus moth. Red Milkweed Beetle/Tetraopes tetrophthalmus resort wear. True bug formal. Lygaeidae family. Geometric… Oblique Streaktail/Allograpta obliqua Basics… Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp/Sceliphron caementarium

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Look inside those bindweed flowers. Here we have two beetles and some tiny ants, probably Monomorium minimum. This looks like Loew’s Lady Beetle Scymnus loewii. First I’ve ever seen. Conotelus obscurus? A sap-feeding beetle. But presumably in the nectar? And what’s all this then? An aggregation of thrips!

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This is some kind of sticky trap for Spotted Lanternfly on a mature Ailanthus tree in Owl’s Head Park. I don’t know if this was the work of NYC Parks or someone freelance. Last nymph stage emerging. The trouble with this sticky stuff is that everything sticks to it. I saw flies wasps, true bugs,…

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