Flint Hills and Tallgrass National Prairie Preserve Field Trip

This Field Trip was part of the 2013 America's Grasslands Conference, held recently in Manhattan, Kansas. You can read my whole account with photos in my open notebook called Ant Ecology and Other Adventures, as well as an account of the meeting, at http://tinyurl.com/lsesc7q

I give the link rather than writing a different account because on my open notebook I include panoramic photos of the prairie and of local buildings that would not be appropriate to upload here. Many of the flower and insect photos are on the iNaturalist site.

Posted on August 18, 2013 06:30 AM by littleant littleant

Observations

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What

Milkweed Stem Weevil (Rhyssomatus lineaticollis)

Observer

littleant

Date

August 12, 2013

Photos / Sounds

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Augochlorine Sweat Bees (Tribe Augochlorini)

Observer

littleant

Date

August 12, 2013

Description

Pale tegulae + purplish band across clypeal + narrow head with narrow vertex + pale green color = Augochlorella female
confirmed by entomologist, John Ascher

Photos / Sounds

What

Metallic Sweat Bees (Subgenus Dialictus)

Observer

littleant

Date

August 12, 2013

Photos / Sounds

What

Prairie Rose (Rosa arkansana)

Observer

littleant

Date

August 12, 2013

Photos / Sounds

What

Compass Plant (Silphium laciniatum)

Observer

littleant

Date

August 13, 2013

Photos / Sounds

What

Giant Blue Sage (Salvia azurea)

Observer

littleant

Date

August 12, 2013

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