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Blueberry Digger Bee (Habropoda laboriosa)Observer
elevineDescription
Wing veination visible in photos 5 & 6.
Nectaring on Red Deadnettle, Lamium purpureum.
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Eastern Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa virginica)Observer
elevineDescription
I’m pretty sure this Carpenter bee is “nectar robbing” - the flowers of Pieris japonica have fused petals and provide only a small opening so the bee creates slits on the side to get to the nectar, failing to pollinate in the process. I believe that’s why there are all those little cuts on the side of the flowers. There were several bees of the same species working on the same shrub.
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Hermit Thrush (Catharus guttatus)Observer
elevineDescription
Eating the fruit of a Holly tree shortly after the partial eclipse.
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Little Mouse-Ear (Cerastium semidecandrum)Observer
elevineDescription
Cerastium semidecandrum (Little Mouse-Ear, aka Five-stamen mouse-ear chickweed) growing in the gravel of the Stonefield in Hudson River Park.
wide scarious edges of sepals
sepals longer than petals
petal apex shallowly notched
Five stamens
Reference: Flora of North America:
http://dev.semanticfna.org/Cerastium_semidecandrum
2020 observation of same species at same general location https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/40866110
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Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons)Observer
elevineDescription
Queen.
Stuck inside a florist shop which had just closed.
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North American Tarnished Plant Bug (Lygus lineolaris)Observer
elevineDescription
On Common Evening Primrose. Covered in small winged insects which will go into a separate observation.
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German Yellowjacket (Vespula germanica)Observer
elevineDescription
The prey may be a Western honey bee.
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Green Lacewings (Family Chrysopidae)Observer
elevineDescription
Egg attached to a leaf of Common Milkweed, Asclepias syriaca.
