Battery Park, New York, NY

Today (7/13/13) we (Tina, My sister Deb and her husband Rob) ventured down to Battery Park to visit the National Museum of the American Indian and on the way visited Battery Park. First excitement was around a collection of bee hives which were VERY active near South Ferry. So, there were lots of honey bees in the area which I did not count in my observations. There were also at least two species of Bumble bees which I find difficult to ID without a specimen, so I did not include them in my observations either.

I did get good photos of a Katydid nymph, probably an angled-wing katydid since that is what I see most of the time in Manhattan when they as adults, but since this one was immature I left it at the Katydid family level. An interesting syrphid fly was observed on yarrow. Genus Chalcosyrphus, they have enlarged femora, I could not get this one to species for sure, so I left it at the Genus level. I will look further to see if I can get it down to species.

Posted on July 14, 2013 02:01 AM by jholmes