Barton Mountain Nature Guide
Flora, fauna, fungi of the mountain in northeast Vermont.
Common Aspen Leaf Miner
The Common Aspen Leaf Miner or Aspen Serpentine Leafminer (Phyllocnistis populiella) is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is found in northern North America, including Alberta, Massachusetts, Ontario and Alaska.
Bagworm moth
Psyche casta is a nocturnal moth from the family Psychidae, the bagworm moths. The wingspan of the males ranges from 12 to 15 millimeter. The females do not have wings.
Arched Hooktip
The Arched Hooktip or Masked Birch Caterpillar (Drepana arcuata) is a moth of the Drepanidae family. It is found from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island, south to at least North Carolina, South Carolina and California.
Lettered Habrosyne
The Lettered Habrosyne or Scribe (Habrosyne scripta) is a moth of the Drepanidae family. It is found in southern Canada and the northern United States, from Labrador to Vancouver Island, south in the Appalachians, Ozarks and Rocky Mountains to North Carolina and Mississippi and south in the west to Arizona.
Black and Yellow Mud Dauber
Black and yellow mud dauber is a common name for the sphecid wasp species Sceliphron caementarium. They are solitary insects that build nests out of mud, in sheltered locations, frequently on man-made structure such as bridges, barns, open porches or under the eaves of houses. These nests are not aggressively defended, and stings are rare.
Northern Amber Bumble Bee
Bombus borealis is a species of bumblebee known commonly as the northern amber bumblebee. It is native to northern North America, where it occurs across Canada and Alaska and the northern and eastern contiguous United States.
Two-spotted Bumblebee
Bombus bimaculatus, or the twospotted bumblebee, is a common species of bumblebee in eastern North America. Its range extends from Ontario to Maine, south to Florida, and west to Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma and Mississippi. The species' abdomen have two yellow spots.
Common Eastern Bumblebee
The Common Eastern Bumble Bee (Bombus impatiens) is the most often encountered bumblebee across much of eastern North America. Its range includes Ontario, Maine, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, south to Florida, west to Michigan, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, and Wyoming.
Confusing Bumble Bee
Bombus perplexus is a species of bumblebee known by the common name confusing bumblebee. It is native to northern North America, where it occurs across Canada and into the eastern United States.
Tri-colored Bumble Bee
Bombus ternarius, commonly known as the Orange-belted Bumblebee or Tricoloured Bumble Bee, is a yellow, orange and black bumblebee. Bombus ternarius is a ground nesting social insect whose colony cycle lasts only one season. Common throughout the northeastern United States and parts of Canada. the bumblebee forages on Rubus, goldenrods, ...more ↓
Half-black Bumblebee
The half-black bumblebee (Bombus vagans) is a small bumblebee with a wide distribution in North America, its range extending from Ontario and Nova Scotia southward to Georgia.
European Paper Wasp
The European paper wasp (Polistes dominula often misspelled as dominulus) is one of the more common and well-known species of social wasps in Europe. Polistes dominula is often referred to as the European Paper Wasp because of its native distribution and its nests, which are constructed from paper and saliva. Its diet is more versatile than that of most Polistes ...more ↓
Bald-faced Hornet
Dolichovespula maculata is a North American wasp commonly called the bald-faced hornet, white-faced hornet, white-tailed hornet, blackjacket or bull wasp. Its well-known features include its hanging paper nests and the females' habit of defending them with repeated stings.
Six-spotted Tiger Beetle
The Six-Spotted Tiger Beetle or Six-spotted Green Tiger Beetle (Cicindela sexguttata) is a common North American species of beetle in the Carabidae family.
Wood Ground-beetle
Carabus nemoralis is a ground beetle common in central and northern Europe, as well as Iceland and the island of Newfoundland. It has also been introduced to and expanding its range in throughout North America.
Red Milkweed Beetle
Tetraopes tetrophthalmus, commonly known as the red milkweed beetle, is a beetle in the family Cerambycidae. The binomial genus and species names are both derived from the Latin for "four eyes." As in many longhorn beetles, the antennae are situated very near the eye - in the red milkweed beetle, this adaptation has been carried to an extreme: the antennal base actually ...more ↓
Milkweed Leaf Beetle
The Milkweed Leaf Beetle (Latin : Labidomera clivicollis) is a species of Beetle from the family Chrysomelidae. Its range extends from the Rocky Mountains to eastern Maritimes Provinces and eastern United states.
Colorado Potato Beetle
The Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata), also known as the Colorado beetle, the ten-striped spearman, the ten-lined potato beetle or the potato bug, is an important pest of potato crops. It is approximately 10 millimetres (0.39 in) long, with a bright yellow/orange body and five bold brown stripes along the length of each of its elytra. ...more ↓
Asian Lady Beetle
Harmonia axyridis is a large coccinellid beetle. Its colour ranges from yellow-orange to black, and the number of spots between none and 22. It is native to eastern Asia, but has been artificially introduced to North America and Europe to control aphids and scale insects. It is now common, well known, and spreading in those regions, and has also established in South Africa and ...more ↓
American Carrion Beetle
The American carrion beetle (Necrophila americana, formerly Silpha americana) is a North American beetle of the family Silphidae. It lays its eggs in, and its larvae consume, raw flesh (particularly that of dead animals) and fungi. The larvae and adults also consume fly larvae and the larvae of other carrion beetles that compete for the same food sources as its ...more ↓
American Rose Chafer
Macrodactylus subspinosus is a North American beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is one of at least two beetles in this family known as the "rose chafer", the other being the European Cetonia aurata. M. subspinosus occurs from Eastern Canada to Colorado and is considered a pest of many crops and flowers. It is given its common name of rose chafer because it eats ...more ↓
Two-striped Grasshopper
The Two-striped Grasshopper (Melanoplus bivittatus) is a species of grasshopper belonging to the genus Melanoplus. It is considered a pest species to the United States and Canada.
Tarnished Plant Bug
The tarnished plant bug (TPB) is one of the most serious pests of small fruits and vegetables in North America. No truly effective or reliable management options currently exist. Growers routinely make 3-5 applications of insecticides each year to control this insect. The cost is $200-$500/acre. Considering the narrow profit margin for today's farmers, these costs are significant. The ...more ↓
Twice-Stabbed Stink Bug
Cosmopepla lintneriana, the twice-stabbed stink bug, is a species of insect in the Pentatomidae family. Cosmopepla lintneriana was first described in 1798 by Johan Christian Fabricius as Cimex carnifex and then again in 1865 by Thomas as Cosmopepla bimaculata....
White-faced Meadowhawk
The White-faced Meadowhawk (Sympetrum obtrusum) is a dragonfly of the genus Sympetrum. It is found in the northern United States and southern Ontario. Adult males are identifiable by a distinctive pure white face and red bodies.
Common Whitetail
The Common Whitetail or Long-tailed Skimmer (Plathemis lydia) is a common dragonfly across much of North America, with a striking and unusual appearance. The male's chunky white body (about 5 cm long), combined with the brownish-black bands on its otherwise translucent wings, give it a checkered look. Females have a brown body and a different pattern of wing spots, ...more ↓
Twin-spotted Spiketail
Cordulegaster maculata, also known as the Twin-spotted spiketail, is a dragonfly of the Cordulegastridae family. It was described by Edmond de Sélys Longchamps in 1854.
Eastern Forktail
Eastern Forktail (Ischnura verticalis) is a member of the damselfly family Coenagrionidae.
Ebony Jewelwing
The Ebony Jewelwing (Calopteryx maculata) is a species of broad-winged damselfly. It is one out of the 170 species of the Odonata found in New England, the Mid-Atlantic states, and southeastern Canada.
Slender Spreadwing
Lestes rectangularis is a species of damselfly commonly called the slender spreadwing.
Common Oblique Syrphid
Allograpta obliqua is a common North American species of hoverfly. The larvae are important predators on aphids
Eristalis arbustorum
Eristalis arbustorum is a European species of hoverfly. The size of the coloured patches on the abdomen varies with larval rearing temperature, as does wing length. They are attracted to the flowers of cow parsley, common hogweed, creeping thistle and knapweed.
