Saturday, July 24, 2021

2nd Friday BBC Insect Walk


Leader Matthew Wills
Hi Peter,
Thanks again to Matthew for our second insect walk. It was lots of fun and included Conor and Russell from NJ (with lots of experience with bugs) and two professors from Farleigh Dickinson: Harald and Elise, who are also running the chimney swift roosting site research (and would love to hear from anyone in the BBC about known roost sites.)

Matthew will send a list. In the meantime, attached are some photos I took along with a run at the IDs based on my best guesses based on iNaturalists suggestions.
The efferia was one of the strangest insects we've seen so far.
Note that the ladybug is eating some kind of prey.
Also very happy to learn that there is an Ogre in charge of Gnats...
I stand by for corrections.

Looking forward to the next one.

Best regards,
Tom

 Here's my list for yesterday's walk

Bug List 7/23

Great Blue Skimmer (Libellula vibrans)

Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis)

Carolina Saddlebags (Tramea carolina)

Pantala rainpool gliders (Spot-winged Glider and/or Wandering Glider)

Reddish-brown Stag Beetle (Lucanus capreolus)—all crushed dead, as last week

Bald-faced Hornet (Dolichovespula maculata)

Organ-pipe Mud-dauber (Trypoxylon politum) nest only

European Paper Wasp (Polistes dominula)

Philonix nigra oak gall wasp, no common name

Ichneumonidae wasp, possible tribe Atrophini

Bombus bumblebee species

Eastern Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa virginica)

Megachile genus leaf-cutter bee

Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)

Sculptured Resin Bee (Megachile sculpturalis)

Margined Calligrapher (Toxomerus marginatus)

Common European Greenbottle Fly (Lucilia sericata)

Long-legged flies, including Condylostylus genus

Holcocephala giant ogre fly

Liriomyza leaf-miner (on white snakeroot)

Efferia aestuans robber fly, no common name

Papilio swallowtail, either P. polyxenes or P, troilus

Silver-spotted Skipper (Epargyreus clarus)

Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta)

Summer Azure (Celastrina neglecta)

Cabbage White (Pieris rapae)

Green Cloverworm Moth (Hypena scabra)

Habilis Underwing (Catocala habilis)—awaiting confirmation on this ID

Swamp cicada (Neotibicen tibicen ssp. tibicen)

Hackberry Nipplegall Psyllid (Pachypsylla celtidismamma)

Hackberry Star Gall Psyllid (Pachypsylla celtidisasterisca)

Witch-hazel Cone Gall Aphid (Hormaphis hamamelidis)

Elm Sack Gall Aphid (Tetraneura ulmi)

Mediterranean Katydid (Phaneroptera nana)

Greenhouse millipede (Oxidus gracilis)

Green Lacewing (Family Chrysopidae) cocoon on underside of oak leaf

Unknown orb-weaving spider

Agelenidae family funnel-weaver

Pityohyphantes (?) sheetweb spider

Assorted tiny spiders, flies, wasps, true bugs, etc. 

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