Monday, July 3, 2023

Fwd: Saturday's Insect walk list Brooklyn Bridge Park

Insect walk led by Matthew Wills to Brooklyn Bridge Park.

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From: Matthew Wills <matthewwills@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, Jul 3, 2023 at 7:21 AM
Subject: Saturday's Insect walk list Brooklyn Brisge Park
To: Peter Dorosh <prosbird@gmail.com>, 


Peter and walk attendees:

 

These are (most) of the insects and arachnids seen on Saturday's BBC walk in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Some IDs are tentative. (I added a couple of things I saw on Pier 6 on my way out to the park.)

 

Thanks to Rusty Harold for documenting many of these on iNaturalist.

 

For biodiversity purposes, this iNaturalist link shows all the arthropods reported in Brooklyn Bridge Park by all users: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=64626&taxon_id=47120

 

 

Lepidoptera

Question Mark Polygonia interrogationis

Painted Lady Vanessa cardui

Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta

Unidentified moth

 

Hymenoptera

Hibiscus Sawfly (adults and larvae) Atomacera decepta

Mexican Grass-carrying Wasp Isodontia mexicana

European Paperwasp Polistes dominula

Oak Button Gall Neuroterus umbilicatus

Oak Rough Bulletgall Wasp Disholcaspis quercusmamma

Typical aphid wasp, genus Pemphredon

Brown-belted Bumblebee Bombus grisecollis

Common Eastern Bumblebee Bombus virginica

Golden Northern Bumblebee Bombus fervidus

Long-horned bee, genus Melissodes

Western Honeybee Apis melifera

Eastern Carpenter Bee Xylocopa virginica

Small carpenter bee, genus Ceratina

Central European Bicolor Ant Lasius emarginatus

Carpenter ant, genus Camponotus

Odorous House Ant Tapinoma sessile

 

Diptera

Stiletto fly, genus Ozodiceromyia

Long-legged Flies, Condylostylus spp.

Long-tailed Aphideater Eupeodes americanus

Unidentified hover fly larvae: Syrphidae

Flesh fly, genus Sarcophaga

False Stable Fly Muscina stabulans

Common Picture-winged Fly Delphinia picta

Carbonifera Goldenrod Gall Midge Asteromyia carbonifera

Daylily Leafminer Ophiomyia kwansonis

 

Coleoptera

Asian Lady Beetle Harmonia axyridis

Two-spotted Lady Beetle Adalia bipunctata

Fourteen Spotted Lady Beetle Propylea quatuordecimpunctata

Twenty-spotted Lady Beetle (larva) Psyllobora vintimaculata

Seven-spotted Lady Beetle Coccinella septempunctata

Unidentified beetle

 

Odonata

Common Green Darner Anax junius

Blue Dasher Pachydiplax longipennis

Fragile Forktail Ischnura posita

Slaty Skimmer Libellula incesta

 

Hemiptera

Asian Wooly Hackberry Aphid Shivaphis celti

Other aphid species, Aphididae

Soft scale on Viburnum, perhaps genus Pulvaria

Spotted Lanternfly Lycorma delicatula

False Milkweed Bug Lygaeus turcicus

Plagiognathus politus, a plant bug spotted by Rusty that may be the first sighting in NYC

Other plant bugs

Unidentified true bug

 

Arachnids

Bold Jumping Spider Phidippus audax

Other unidentified spiders

Poison Ivy Leaf Mite Aculops rhois

 

 

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