These are pretty unsatisfying pictures, but zoomy zounds! they’re hard to capture. (5th Ave. and 25th St. here in Brooklyn.)

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Some nymph katydids. Some Microcentrum katydid eggs.

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There are usually a few Common Grackle around the Sylvan Water in Green-Wood during the breeding season. At least one of the large pines nearby is a likely nesting place. And here’s a fledgling at the edge of the Water on June 2nd. Another (?) member of the Class of ’23, seen last week a…

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A few Common Snappers have been released into this pond, with permission, from an animal rescue organization. And although wildlife shouldn’t be fed, they are, and hence tend to come up begging.

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Lots of arm-waving from this male Thin-spined Jumping Spider/Tutelina elegans. This may be the female of the species. One of the running crab spiders, I think. Another look at the Variegated Ground Spider/Sergiolus capulatus.

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Common Milkweed/Asclepias syriaca. Note the yellow thing at 9:00. That’s half a pollen packet or pollinia. A pair of pollinia are connected into a saddlebag-like pollinium. Here’s a pollinium attached to a Brown-belted Bumblebee’s foot. It’s possible to get too many of these things attached to you, weighing you down. (This page details the hazards…

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More acts of unintentional pollination by various bees and such in celebration of Pollination Week.

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In lieu of not being quick enough to photograph the first adult Monarch I saw this year, on Wednesday, June 21st, here’s a detail of a mural on a new school. I did see some caterpillars on May 21st and 22nd.

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Angel of Milkweed wonders where the hell the pollinators are… But I managed to find a few in our cool, ashy June. These mating… Oxybelus wasps, I think… are simply covered in pollen, but will they land in other flowers to spread it around? Pollinator Week

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Above Bartel-Pritchard Square at the western-most corner of Prospect Park as I waited for the light to change. The Square is actually a traffic circle, and rather tricky for pedestrians. I heard the bird(s) before seeing them. Could only tell in the camera later that I had at least one female and one male crisscrossing…

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