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Genus SericaObserver
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Approximately 11:00pm. Attracted to mercury vapor light, resting on white sheet. In my backyard, 61 degrees.
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Butterflies and Moths (Order Lepidoptera)Observer
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Approximately 11:00pm. Attracted to mercury vapor light, resting on white sheet. In my backyard, 61 degrees.
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Lesser Maple Spanworm Moth (Macaria pustularia)Observer
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Approximately 11:00pm. Attracted to mercury vapor light, resting on white sheet. In my backyard, 61 degrees.
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Ichneumonid Wasps (Family Ichneumonidae)Observer
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Approximately 11:00pm. Attracted to mercury vapor light trap. One among dozens spotted. Caught and identified in my backyard. 61 degrees.
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Fireflies (Family Lampyridae)Observer
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Found resting on vinyl siding of house. Approximately 2:15 pm. Weather: sunny and 70 degrees.
Observer
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Approximately 2:15pm. Resting on blackberry bush. Weather: sunny and 70 degrees.
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Spittlebugs and Froghoppers (Superfamily Cercopoidea)Observer
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65 degrees and cloudy. Locality: power cut behind C-lot on the UConn Storrs campus. Approximately found at 11:00 am. Found resting on vegetation in meadow (power cut).
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Damselflies (Suborder Zygoptera)Observer
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65 degrees and cloudy. Locality: power cut behind C-lot on the UConn Storrs campus. Approximately found at 11:00 am. Found resting on vegetation in meadow (power cut).
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Blatchley Walkingstick (Manomera blatchleyi)Observer
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65 degrees and cloudy. Locality: power cut behind C-lot on the UConn Storrs campus. Approximately found at 11:00 am. Found resting on vegetation in meadow (power cut).
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Dogbane Leaf Beetle (Chrysochus auratus)Observer
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Found resting on vegetation (Milkweed plant) in a grassy meadow around 11:30 in the morning at Spring Manor Farm. Meadow was near the Willimantic River. 85 degrees and sunny.
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Lily Leaf Beetle (Lilioceris lilii)Observer
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Approximately 3:45 pm in the afternoon. 85 degrees and sunny. The scarlet lily leaf beetle is an invasive species originally from Europe. It feeds on lily plants and eventually destroys them. Found resting on lily plant.
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Small White (Pieris rapae)Observer
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85 degrees Fahrenheit and sunny. Found near purple flowers in a grassy meadow. Presumably sucking the nectar form the purple flowers. Approximately found at 11:00 am Monday (June 22) morning.
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Mosquitoes (Family Culicidae)Observer
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1:40pm, 81 degrees F and sunny. Tub of stagnant water in Hamden, CT (my backyard) contained mosquito larvae. From Order Diptera.
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Butterflies and Moths (Order Lepidoptera)Observer
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3:40pm. 81 degrees Fahrenheit and sunny. Resting on Birch Tree in my backyard. Caterpillar sitting close to a daddy long leg (Order Opiliones). Not entirely sure if one is eating the other or if they are just resting close to one another. Caterpillar has long gray hairs and a body length of less than one inch.
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European Earwig Complex (Complex Forficula auricularia)Observer
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3:41pm. 81 degrees Fahrenheit and sunny. Resting on Hydrangeas in my backyard.
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Greenbottle Flies (Genus Lucilia)Observer
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Approximately 1:30pm. Hamden, CT. 81 degrees Fahrenheit and sunny. Found resting and flying around wild blackberry bushes in my backyard.
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Fusca-group Field Ants (Complex Formica fusca)Observer
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Resting/crawling on peony flowers in my backyard. Hamden, CT. 81 degrees Fahrenheit and sunny. Approximately 1:30pm.
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Genus ScaritesObserver
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Near my home garden, crawling along the ground. 81 degrees Fahrenheit and sunny. Around 1pm.
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Genus AlydusObserver
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Mansfield Hollow Dam, Storrs, CT. Field environment. Approximately 11:30am. Found crawling along the ground along vegetation.
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North American Spur-throated Grasshoppers (Genus Melanoplus)Observer
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Mansfield Hollow Dam, Storrs, CT
Field area near running water. Around 11:30am. resting on vegetation. Wing pads not fully developed indicated immature.