John Reed Pavan · @johnpavan
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A red milkweed beetle (Tetraopes tetrophthalmus) in Carl Schurz Park in early June.
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A moisture ant (g. Lasius) farming aphids in Carl Schurz Park in early June.
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John Reed Pavan · @johnpavan
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A leaf beetle (f. Chrysomelidae) in late May. North Woods of Central Park.
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A jumping spider (f. Salticidae) in the North Woods of Central Park in late May. This particular one was being a picky eater. It would grab one bug, pause for a moment, then drop it. It repeated this behavior for about 20 minutes before it finally settled on one that it actually wanted to eat.
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John Reed Pavan · @johnpavan
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A ladybug larva (Coccinellidae) ending an aphid.
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An unidentified fly in the north woods of Central Park.
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John Reed Pavan · @johnpavan
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A green lacewing larva (f. Chrysopidae) eating an aphid in Central Park in late May. Lacewing larva are a bit terrifying, but the adults are nearly harmless.
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A birtch catkin bug (Kleidocerys resedae) in the North Woods of Central Park in late May.
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John Reed Pavan · @johnpavan
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A bagworm (f. Psychidae) in the North Woods of Central Park in late May. These eventually end up as moths called bagworm moths.
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John Reed Pavan · @johnpavan
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An aphid of some sort. Note that this one extrudes white lacy stuff. That helps to disguise it, and also if something does try to eat it, they may end up with the extrusions rather than the aphid.
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A leafhopper nymph of some sort. Central Park in late May.
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John Reed Pavan · @johnpavan
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An unidentified butterfly or moth caterpillar in Central Park (late May). From a distance these look 'fuzzy', but up close you can see that the hairs really are big spikes/needles. Hopefully no one was silly enough to actually touch it.
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John Reed Pavan · @johnpavan
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According to seek these are chincatana leafcutter ants. However, I'm skeptical b/c this picture was taken in New York City instead of Mexico, Arizona or the surrounding regions.
Note how much smaller the male is than the female. Late May in Central Park.
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John Reed Pavan · @johnpavan
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Checkout the pedipalps on this spider. Taken in Central Park in late May.
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John Reed Pavan · @johnpavan
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A western (European) honey bee (Apis mellifera).
Sooo fuzzy! :-)
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John Reed Pavan · @johnpavan
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I think this is a member of the family Miridae. E.g. plant bugs. Like all true bugs, these have sucking mouth parts, this one was found in Central Park in late May.
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John Reed Pavan · @johnpavan
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A fifteen-spotted lady beetle (Anatis labiculata) on a yellow leaf. These are darker colored ladybugs and their bodies can be nearly entirely black. As mentioned in previous posts, ladybugs and their larva are voracious aphid predators.
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John Reed Pavan · @johnpavan
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A braconid Wasp (f. Braconidae). There are 17000 species in this family of parasitoid wasps. Never trust anything with an ovipositor!
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John Reed Pavan · @johnpavan
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Ants farming aphids in late May in Central Park. Ants will gather up aphids and protect them in exchange for sugary liquids that the aphids occasionally extrude.
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John Reed Pavan · @johnpavan
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I have no idea what this is. This was at 5x magnification, so this is quite small.
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