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Common Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis)Observer
susan3Description
This is a hybrid between I pallida and I capensis, both within a few feet. This is the third year these unspotted orange plants have appeared here.
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Narrow-winged Damselflies (Family Coenagrionidae)Observer
susan3Description
Segment 9 is black on top. I’d have said Orange bluet but for that.
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Genus TrochosaObserver
susan3Description
Spider with egg sac in a shallow retreat under a piece of firewood — she’s made walls with small bits of soil. I have not seen a nest like this before.
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Complex Thallose Liverworts (Order Marchantiales)Observer
susan3Description
On cliff, interbedded sandy limestone and slate, with Aquilegium canadense
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Scarlet Hawthorn (Crataegus coccinea)Observer
susan3Description
ID confirmed by Art Gilman and Arthur Haines.
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Green Algae (Phylum Chlorophyta)Observer
susan3Description
In shallow water at Delta Park. About 3-4 inches long, solid object with green algae strands all over —
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Shining Flatsedge (Cyperus bipartitus)Observer
susan3Description
Growing in driveway.
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Eastern Comma (Polygonia comma)Observer
susan3Description
We found the chrysalis near a nettle patch, attached to a tomato, and transferred it to a stick and kept it in the woodshed.
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Marginal Leaf Fold Gall Midge (Macrodiplosis erubescens)Observer
susan3Description
Gall on red oak leaf, marginal leaf-fold gall.
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Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui)Observer
susan3Description
15 - 20 individuals, mostly very fresh, nectaring on mint and New England aster for past three days.
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Northern Coralroot (Corallorhiza trifida)Observer
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Under hemlocks.
