Saturday, June 20th, A Memorial to Jean Bourque: Nature of Floyd Bennett Field

Jean Bourque from the 2009 BBC centennial party, ( photo by Suzanne Ortiz)

Chief Interpretive Ranger Rick Jenkins, NYC Audubon Susan Elbin Dir of Conservation, Ron Bourque, BBC Peter Dorosh & BBC President Rob Bate at the Milkweed dedication site. (photo by jess schulman )

BBC Trips Chair Peter Dorosh speaking  (photo by Jess Schulman )

Ron Bourque digging the hole for dedicated Milkweed plants

List of birds and plants 
( plants identified by Marielle Anzelone , NYC Wildflower week director;list courtesy of Lenore Swenson)

BIRDS:
1-Mallard
2-Double-crested Cormorant
3-Glossy
Ibis
4-Willet
5-Laughing Gull
6-Herring Gull
7-Great Black-backed   
BBC trips Chair Peter presenting the memorial plaque to Ron Bourque  (photo by jess schulman )
Gull
8-Common Tern
9-Rock Pigeon
10-Mourning Dove
11-Chimney
Swift
12-American Crow
13-American Robin
14-Northern Mockingbird
15-European
Starling
16-Cedar Waxwing
17-Yellow Warbler (h)
18-Savannah Sparrow
19-Song
Sparrow
20-Red-winged Blackbird
21-American Goldfinch
22-House
Sparrow   


PLANTS:
Black Cherry
White Mulberry
Gray
Birch
Cottonwood
Bayberry
Winged Sumac
Common
Blackberry
Dewberry
Multi-flora Rose
Virginia Creeper
Asiatic/Oriental
Bittersweet
Common Mullein
Sheep Sorrel
Field Garlic
Early Goldenrod
Common
St-John's-Wort
Yarrow
Yellow Wood Sorrel
Hawkweed sp. 
Spurge sp. 
Spotted
Knapweed
Red Clover
Japanese Knotweed
Deptford Pink
Black Medic
Queen
Anne's Lace
Daisy Fleabane
Japanese Brome
Black-eyed Susan
English
Plantain
Indian Hemp
Silvery Cinquefoil
Common Milkweed
White
Campion
Butter-and-Eggs
Horsenettle
White Clover
Path Rush
Deer Tongue
Grass
Poverty Grass
Hair Grass
Poa Grass sp.

Switchgrass/Panicum

Ron Bourque speaking along side Rob Bate , BBC president

Insect list ( courtesy of insect leader Steve Nanz )

Dogbane Beetle -  Chrysochus auratus

Delicate Cycnia -  Cycnia tenera

Grapeleaf Skeletonizer -  Harrisina americana

• Diptera (Flies)

Flower Fly -  Toxomerus sp.

• Hemiptera (True Bugs, etc.)

Small Milkweed Bug -  Lygaeus kalmii

Several species of Leafhoppers - Cicadellidae

• Hymenoptera (Ants_Bees_Wasps_Sawflies)

Yellow-faced Bee -  Hylaeus sp.

• Coleoptera (Beetles)

Red Milkweed Beetle -  Tetraopes tetrophthalmus

Red-necked Cane Borer -  Agrilus ruficollis

• Lepidoptera (Moths and Butterflies)

Double-banded Grass-veneer -  Crambus agitatellus

Grapeleaf Skeletonizer -  Harrisina americana

Delicate Cycnia -  Cycnia tenera

• Neuroptera (Antlions_Lacewings_Allies)

Ant Lion -  Myrmeleon immaculatus

• Arachnids

Crab Spider - cf. Misumena vatia