We went to Embury Road the other day searching for several birds that I hadn’t seen or heard this year – Blue-winged Warbler and Cerulean Warbler. We managed to find both species. But the high-lights for our time on there were the insects.
Nothing like starting the morning with a Leconte’s Haploa, a nice moth and typically found during the day.
It’s hard to believe that I’ve made it into July without seeing an Ebony Jewelwing. I guess that shows how much time we have been spending in the north. Anyway, I finally got my first of the year.
Much of the morning I bounced back and forth between butterflies and other insects. This is a Questionmark. I managed a photo of the underwing later.
This is why this butterfly is called a Questionmark.
This is a banded long-horned beetle, which I think is quite attractive.
This is a Common bog fly. Since we were on a road that ran through a bog this species made perfect sense.
A Mulberry wing on a swamp milkweed flower.
And finally – a a Blue dasher, a cute small dragonfly.
More tomorrow…
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