Sunday, July 18, 2021

BBC Friday Insect walk

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Location Prospect Park Vale Cashmere 

Hi Peter and Dennis.


Thanks to Matthew Wills, we had our first insect walk Friday. It was lots of fun with many interesting finds.
Matthew is going to send a day list, which I"ll forward once I have it. He's also going to send links to his blog and his iNaturalist pages, which should help with our studies for next time.

Here are a few photos from the trip by myself and Jay. I'm sure Rusty (also very versed in insect ID) and Janet have many more.

Of course identifying insects is very difficult, since there are so many species. I put some guesses in the file names including:

Eastern Calligrapher Fly
Oblique Streaktail (by Jay)
Robberfly (by Jay) that had captured possibly one of the above species
Snout Butterfly ovipositing eggs on the underside of a leaf
Eastern Common Bumbleebee (2 pictures)
Japanese Beetle (2 photos)
Lightning bug sp (by Jay)
Reddish Brown Stag Beetle (by Jay)
A leaf and a stem gall

Best regarThis is roughly what I got:
Thanks for sharing, Rusty.
Sorry I missed that Orchesella villosa

Best regards
Tom
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Hello, All!

A list is on it's way, but in the meantime I'm putting in links to:

all the insect observations for Kings Co. on iNaturalist https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=2275&taxon_id=47158

and breaking out all mine https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=2275&taxon_id=47158&user_id=matthew_wills&verifiable=any

I didn't take many pictures during the walk, but these sets will give you a good idea of the variety of insects seen recently in Brooklyn.

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Please consider joining iNaturalist for all your natural history observations.

Stay hot and buggy,

Matthew

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Excellent. Thanks, Matthew. See you next week.

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