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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Observations
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Conotelus obscurusObserver
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This was in the tube of a Hedge Bindweed flower.
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Hibiscus Curculio (Conotrachelus fissunguis)Observer
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Deep in a flower of swamp rose mallow.
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Hibiscus Curculio (Conotrachelus fissunguis)Observer
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These two fell out/were shaken out of a Marsh Hibiscus flower, and they came out well covered in pollen grains.
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Pinwheel Family (Family Marasmiaceae)Observer
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The stipe was super strong, almost like a piece of wire, but reddish towards the distal end.
It did not occur to me to smell this mushroom, unfortunately, because one species is supposed to smell very strongly of garlic.
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Three-banded Tumbling Flower Beetle (Mordellistena trifasciata)Observer
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Genus MordellistenaObserver
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The gall starts out being made by a Eurosta fly, and then is often or maybe usually taken over by a beetle.
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White-footed Woods Mosquito (Psorophora ferox)Observer
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Both my husband and I got bitten a tremendous amount walking through the woodland of the freshwater wetlands area.
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Hibiscus Curculio (Conotrachelus fissunguis)Observer
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This individual accidentally came halfway home in the taxi with us from Randall's Island!
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