As I’m walking back to work from lunch, I spy these green darner dragonflies mating. They are strikingly beautiful! They are quite fierce in their aquatic stage nymph stage.
Archive for the 'Insects' Category
It’s only april but the mayflies and the may apples are out and about.
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Beetle - April 14 2008
I see some miner bees hovering over the ground and I notice something just a bit larger. This beetle is what I find. I don’t know what kind it is but its antenae look like something from Dr. Suess.
This tree is on the edge of the upper flat near the Sycamore lodge.
Here is another flying insect on the same white pine tree.
Glow worms under a log - April 9 2008, originally uploaded by Camp Naturalist.
My assistant finds these two glow worms(lighting bug larva) under a log outside the nature center.
Miner Bees Mating - April 6, 2008, originally uploaded by Camp Naturalist.
As I’m walking by the base of Turtle Hill to check out the wetland burn at main camp I spy these miner bees in what I guess to be a mating ball.
The hole to the right is a miner bee’s burrow.
IMG_2014, originally uploaded by Camp Naturalist.
I am looking at this basswood tree and counting the age of the branches when I notice these insects(shield bugs???). Boy, these are well camouflaged.
IMG_1948, originally uploaded by Camp Naturalist.
As I look down at the edge of the woods I see this skeleton of a leaf. It’s kinda neat.
White Pine Caterpillar in Needles Fused #2, originally uploaded by Camp Naturalist.
Inside these 2 clusters of white pine needles are little green caterpillars. One came very quickly out the home it had made as I begin to take apart some of the needles. I don’t know what kind of insect this is?
Insect gall - September 11, 2007, originally uploaded by Camp Naturalist.
This interesting object is the home to wasp of some kind. I believe these are called oak apple galls. I’m facinated that these wasps can cause oak to create a home for them.
