deep sand
So sorry for the paint marks, we are doing a mark recapture study on this population
Stuck in spider web
Multiple individuals visiting Heuchera americana growing on NE facing cliff face next to road
On Rhododendron
common here on Rhus glabra
with a Cicada - Zammara smaragdina
Found 2 of these beautiful wasps hanging out near the open end of an old Solidago stem, where I think there might be halictid cells
For ID of host bee larva
Body length: 7.38mm
Bee larva ex. hollow Solidago stem (photo #8), containing 3 larvae and one adult male(?), presumably all of the same parasitoid wasp species floating around the periphery (IDed here). The host bee larva is hollowed out but you can still make out the head capsule, tracheae, and probably other features.
Associated observations:
Visiting Persicaria along the margin of a small lake.
I suspect this is the correct identification, but hope someone will correct or verify.
This or another individual was seen about 5 minutes before this sighting at a nearby stretch of the same lake shore; see https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/195196320.
Confirmed from specimens, Ill post photos of them soon
Seen on a field trip to Osteen Hammock led by Lydia Cuni for the Dade Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society. It was a great group of participants and we had a great time learning about pine rockland and hammock plants thanks to Lydia! For more info about field trips like this, keep an eye on the Dade Chapter's calendar here: https://dade.fnpschapters.org/events/
Their events are almost always free and open to the public. Joining is a great way to support this awesome organization :-)
All observations we posted from this area today:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=25.40723688179574&nelng=-80.62274759420741&on=2022-04-16&order=asc&order_by=observed_on&place_id=any&swlat=25.38591445714166&swlng=-80.64577882982174
Prey of Philanthus gibbosus
River otters!
Huttonia palpimanoides
Eucera albata
Need a new species page created.
In addition to the main spider photo, I've added more, showing where there were hundreds of thee spiders in their orb webs. There's a "scene" photo, in the middle of which you can see the main lit informational kiosk where there had to be something around 80 webs, most of which were these (including this spider). The whole structure to its left was also covered in webs - some even inside that vending machine, which contains fishing tackle, not snacks. They were around back, all the way around that stuff. That tree to the right was a veritable apartment building of webs, and I've added a screencap of a video I took showing that. They were on the signs and Dasani machine, and then you see the railings of the dock there - they were in between each upright, often multiple webs, and I included photos of that, too. There was another dock that had the same situation. On the far side of the parking lot is a fish processing station? Kind of a small roofed structure with counters, a wooden deck with railings, and three or four sets of bleachers. These spiders were in the deck railings and all over the bleachers as well.
first record for NJ, I think. Males and females visiting Heuchera americana growing in rocky outcrops on steep slope facing the Delaware River.
On Prunus. I believe this to be A. triquestra. Male will be posted next
This observation is for the individual in the first photo. All these photos are of Andrena in the same patch of Phacelia dubia, but the photos may include multiple individuals. A number of individuals were collected.
visiting Strophostyles umbellata. Thanks @gnatcatcher!
Sunny Flat Campground, Cochise County, AZ
Connal Eardley advised Meliturgula minima in 2017
Nectaring at Symphyotrichum pilosum.
Note: to some of the recently uploaded pictures I have the specimen available. I can upload detailed microscopic pictures as soon as pinning is done.
Note: to some of the recently uploaded pictures I have the specimen available. I can upload detailed microscopic pictures as soon as pinning is done.
The mountain mint patch at the Lakeside Commons Educational Gardens is once again a hotbed of pollinator activity. This interesting, stocky little bee, about 1 cm long, was having a rest and allowed me to take its photo. I've never seen one quite like it before, and it was the only one like that I saw today.
Colletes bees are often Physalis specialists, and I only saw these little grayish bees around my Calliphysalis plants, which are closely related to Physalis. Interestingly, Calliphysalis isn't native to this area, but the bees still recognized it as a good host.
On Verbesina encelioides
On Daucus