On a Hackberry tree. Third image is two weeks later.
A friend from Mayne Island sent this suggesting it was a murder hornet? Thank you to this group for helping identifying it as a European hornet. Found on Mayne Island, BC apparently. See comments below. No I did not take this photo myself.
Found on cart coral at grocery store
Today I found this guy on our stoop. It was clearly injured. Its wings almost appear burnt? Lots of nightly fireworks in Brooklyn so that would be my guess. It was still alive and I got it into this box. About an hour later it passed. It is huge! Hand for scale. I’m wondering what this is?
Sorry the photos are blurry, the bag made it hard to focus
Butterfly was sighted by North Lake along the Platte River near South Bend, NE.