Randall's Island, a nature outing

I spent two hours in the Freshwater Wetlands area of Randall's Island, between noon and 2 pm today. I managed to find a few new lifers, assuming I have ID'ed them correctly:

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Conoytachelus fissunguis -- several of these neat-looking true weevils were deep in a flower of Swamp Rose Mallow
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/89546274

Jumping Bush Cricket -- just one nymph
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/89546121

Eutreta noveboracensis -- a very cute little fruit fly
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/89549908

Coenosia tigrina -- a fly with stripes and hairs
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/89553415

A delicate mushroom growing under a log, next time I need to smell the mushroom.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/89549290

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Butterflies that I saw:

Cabbage White
Zabulon Skipper
Broad-winged Skipper
Monarch
Summer Azure
Eastern Tailed Blue
Red Admiral
Buckeye
Silver-spotted Skipper
Pearl Crescent
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And a few nice other things like five-angled dodder and dodder gall weevil galls in a tree pit on 125th Street.
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Posted on 02 de agosto de 2021, 01:15 AM by susanhewitt