Sunday, June 29, 2025

June 28th Butterfly World at Ward Pound Ridge

Snow White Moth

Rusty Harold's INaturalist list 

Leader Karlo Mirth

Alison M, Rusty H,Peter D.

30 species 

Hi Peter and Rusty, Ward Pound seldom disappoints - it's one of our favorite places. Here's the list of butterflies.
Delaware Skipper


Spicebush Swallowtail - 2
Cabbage White - 1
Orange Sulphur - 4 or 5
American Copper - 1
Banded Hairstreak - 3
Eastern Tailed-Blue - 1
Summer Azure - 20 plus
Great Spangled Fritillary - 40 to 50 (nice number)
Pearl Crescent - 1
Eastern Comma - 2
Compton Tortoiseshell - 1! 
Red Admiral - 1
Viceroy - 1
Appalachian Brown - 4
Little Wood-Satyr - 10
Common Wood-Nymph - 1
Monarch - 2
Silver-spotted Skipper - 4
Southern Cloudywing - 2
Least Skipper - 1
European Skipper - 2
Peck's Skipper - 1
Tawny-edged Skipper - 8
Crossline Skipper - 1
Northern Broken-Dash - 1
Little Glassywing - 20 plus
Delaware Skipper - 12
Hobomok Skipper - 1
Dion Skipper - 2
Dun Skipper - 3 to 4

One of the skippers that we saw turned out to be a Northern Broken-Dash. 

It was great meeting you guys.

Cheers,
Karlo



Eastern eye Click beetle
              


"Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill."

Harper Lee,author To Kill a Mockingbird



   

Monday, June 23, 2025

BBC Member’s Night Picnic and Bug Expo! June 21 @ 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm

 Insect expert : Matthew Wills


BBC Bug Night

Nethermead Prospect Park June 21, 2025

 

(Thanks to iNaturalist observers kenelma & elharo.)

 

 

Large Lace-border Moth/Scopula limboundata

Green Cloverworm Moth/Hypena scabra

Larentiinae carpet moth

 

Oriental Beetle/Exomala orientalis

Asian Lady Beetle/Harmonia axyridis (larva)

Maladera or Diplotaxis genus beetle

Ptilodactyla genus beetle

Phyllophaga crenulata beetle

2 other unknown Scarabaeidae beetle species (“June Bugs”)

(beetle IDs tentative)

 

Band-winged Crane Fly/Epiphragma fasciapenne (first iNat observation in Brooklyn)

Psectrotanypus dyari (midge: first iNat observation in Brooklyn)

At least 2 Adedes genus mosquitos

Several Chironomidae family non-biting midge species

 

Long-palped Ant-mimic Sac Spider/Castianeira longipalpus

Harvestman (Leiobunum vittatum?)

 

Lime Leaf Aphid/Eucallipterus tiliae

 

Subfamily Hydropsychinae caddisfly (first iNat observation in Brooklyn)

 

Rhododendron Leafhopper/Graphocephala fennahi

A bunch of other tiny Cicadellidae family leafhoppers

 

Assorted tiny wasps…








Insect world of Brooklyn Brdige Park

 Canceled due to weekend rain.

Saturday, June 7, 2025

June 7th The sights and sounds of Jamaica Bay Refuge

 Leader Tom Stephenson 

Note added location Plum Beach


Hi Peter,
It turned out to be a great day at Jamaica Bay (and also Plumb Beach). A fun group and lots of good birds.
The rain held off until the very end, so the weather was actually perfect.

I tallied 57 species but I think Sameer may have logged a couple more. If you didn't get his email link let him know.
Highlights were the Little Gull, distant Black-necked Stilt, a Clapper Rail parade, and more. Below is the list I put together.

And thanks very much to the drivers. We can't do these trips without you.
Don't forget to give them the BBC car fare for gas!

See everyone in the park again soon.

Best regards,
Tom

Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Glossy Ibis
Brant
Mute Swan
Gadwall
American Black Duck
Mallard
Bufflehead
Ruddy Duck
Osprey
Clapper Rail
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
American Oystercatcher
Black-necked Stilt
Willet
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Laughing Gull
Little Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Common Tern
Forster's Tern
Least Tern
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Willow Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Warbling Vireo
Fish Crow
Tree Swallow
Bank Swallow
Barn Swallow
Carolina Wren
House Wren
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Yellow Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Eastern Towhee
Song Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Boat-tailed Grackle
Baltimore Oriole
House Sparrow

Sameers' s checklists 

Hi all, here are the two eBird checklists; I've also shared each with this group via eBird.
I also created a trip report containing both checklists; we identified 58 species today: https://ebird.org/tripreport/382509

Here are our group photos:
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Video semipalmated sandpipers by Marisa 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/114xHvnDDopcEP7fSob1sk-Jan0dTV5Vh/view?usp=drivesdk