Date added
Dec. 27, 2012
03:40 AM CST
Description
Heard calling at ~0300 hrs (not seen, too dark).
Date added
Nov. 10, 2012
08:26 PM CST
Description
Found among leaf litter along the wooded banks of McCullough Creek at Meadowbrook Park, Urbana, Illinois.
Date added
Nov. 8, 2012
01:26 AM CST
Description
Female found on UIUC Research Park feeding on gravid female differential grasshopper. The mantis was kept in the laboratory and produced an ootheca on 18 October 2012.
Date added
Oct. 25, 2012
08:35 PM CDT
Description
On sidewalk near Evers Building on the research park at the University of Illinois.
Date added
Sep. 21, 2012
06:58 PM CDT
Description
A flea beetle, Luperaltica nigripalpis on what looks like some sort of Heliopsis.
Date added
Sep. 6, 2012
10:50 PM CDT
Description
A mature female found on a grassy man-made earthen bank on W side of Evers Building, UIUC research park.
Date added
Sep. 5, 2012
12:30 PM CDT
Description
Male found in grassy, "no-mow" zone on the research park at UIUC.
Date added
Sep. 5, 2012
12:25 PM CDT
Description
Found amidst grass in a "no-mow" zone on the research park at UIUC.
Date added
Aug. 24, 2012
10:31 PM CDT
Description
Male black-legged meadow katydid (Orchelimum nigripes) found on tall forbs at Meadowbrook Park prairie restoration.
Date added
Aug. 24, 2012
08:03 PM CDT
Description
Polites peckius (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) or "Peck's skipper", nectaring from the flower head of a pasture thistle (Cirsium discolor) at Meadowbrook Park prairie restoration, Urbana, IL.
Date added
Jun. 2, 2012
06:51 PM CDT
Date added
Jun. 1, 2012
09:51 AM CDT
Description
Nectaring on ornamental plants.
Tags
USA,
Illinois,
Champaign County,
Champaign,
Insecta,
Lepidoptera,
Papilionoidea,
Nymphalidae,
Danainae,
Danaini,
Danaus,
Danaus plexippus,
Monarch,
milkweed butterfly
Date added
Jun. 1, 2012
09:40 AM CDT
Description
Near water retention pond on apartment complex.
Tags
Date added
May. 31, 2012
11:55 PM CDT
Description
Bee (Apidae) on thistle (Asteraceae: Cirsium) in restored prairie at Meadowbrook Park
Tags
Date added
May. 31, 2012
11:33 PM CDT
Date added
May. 31, 2012
08:07 PM CDT
Description
Mature, male red-winged blackbird
Tags
Date added
May. 30, 2012
07:16 PM CDT
Date added
May. 30, 2012
08:05 AM CDT
Description
Nest in soil beneath old bricks.
Tags
Date added
May. 29, 2012
10:06 PM CDT
Description
Not the best photographs I'm afraid.
Tags
USA,
Illinois,
Champaign County,
Champaign,
Aves,
Piciformes,
Picidae,
Picoides,
Picoides villosus,
hairy woodpecker,
woodpecker
Date added
May. 28, 2012
09:06 PM CDT
Description
This male is tending a nest with two chicks.
Tags
Date added
May. 28, 2012
08:05 PM CDT
Description
Adult ♀ found inside garage.
Tags
Insecta,
Orthoptera,
Rhaphidophoridae,
Aemodogryllinae,
Aemodogryllini,
Diestrammena,
Tachycines,
Diestrammena (Tachycines) asynamora,
Illinois,
Champaign County,
Champaign,
USA
Date added
May. 28, 2012
11:53 AM CDT
Description
Found on sidewalk at night.
Tags
Mollusca,
Gastropoda,
Heterobranchia,
Eupulmonata,
Limacoidea,
Limacidae,
<i>Limax</i>,
<i>Limax maximus</i>,
leopard slug,
USA,
Illinois,
Champaign County,
Champaign
Date added
May. 27, 2012
10:06 AM CDT
Description
Found among leaf litter beneath oaks and maples.
Tags
Arilus,
Arilus cristatus,
wheel bug,
Heteroptera,
Reduviidae,
Harpactorinae,
Champaign,
Illinois,
Central Illinois,
USA,
Champaign County
Date added
May. 21, 2011
03:14 PM CDT
Description
Located in Urbana, IL. Growing in a shady spot in the corner of my yard.
