“Bamboo Brook Outdoor Education Center, located on 687 acres, was once known as Merchiston Farm and was the home of William and Martha Brookes Hutcheson from 1911 to 1959. Bamboo Brook’s original 100 acres was donated by the daughter of Mrs. Hutcheson. Ms. Hutcheson one of America’s first women landscape architects attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s School of Architecture and Planning, along with other famous women garden designers of that time, including Marion Coffin and Beatrix Farrand. …”
In addition to butterflies we saw other insects and amphibians. I was pleased to be able to identify the Red Velvet and Ant which is actually in the wasp family.
Red Velvet Ant (Dasymutilla occidentalis), Pine Barrens, NJ 4/24/2022Six-spotted Green Tiger Beetle (Cicindela sexguttata), Pine Barrens, NJ 4/24/2022Beautiful Tiger Beetle (Cincindela formosa), Pine Barrens, NJ 4/24/2022Appalachian Tiger Beetle (Cicindela ancocisconensis), Pine Barrens, NJ 4/24/2022Spider, Pine Barrens, NJ 4/24/2022Orchard Orbweaver (Leucauge venusta), Pine Barrens, NJ 4/24/2022Jumping spider with prey, Pine Barrens, NJ 4/24/2022Mantled Baskettail (Epitheca semiequea), Pine Barrens, NJ 4/24/2022Skimming Bluet (Enallagma geminatum), Pine Barrens, NJ 4/24/2022Northern Cricket Frog (Acris crepitans), Pine Barrens, NJ 4/24/2022Leopard Frog (Rana), Pine Barrens, NJ 4/24/2022
We had a brief but rewarding trip out to Jamaica Bay in Brooklyn, New York on the 15th of August. I added a few new odonates to my life list. I learned the word odonates from my fellow Linnaean NY members. September starts the new Zoom meetings and they are free. You may attend one from anywhere or view a recording of one if the timing isn’t right linnaeannewyork.org. The first one on September 14 will be about Bats.
Reed grass (Phragmites), Jamaica Bay, NY 8/15/2021
Least Sandpiper (Calidris minutilla), Jamaica Bay, NY 8/15/2021
Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus), Jamaica Bay, NY 8/15/2021
Short-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus), Jamaica Bay, NY 8/15/2021
Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes), Jamaica Bay, NY 8/15/2021
Short-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus), Jamaica Bay, NY 8/15/2021
Short-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus), Jamaica Bay, NY 8/15/2021
Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes), Jamaica Bay, NY 8/15/2021
Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes), Jamaica Bay, NY 8/15/2021
Jamaica Bay, NY 8/15/2021
Eastern Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus), Jamaica Bay, NY 8/15/2021
Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe), Jamaica Bay, NY 8/15/2021
Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe), Jamaica Bay, NY 8/15/2021
Willow Flycatcher (Empidonax traillii), Jamaica Bay, NY 8/15/2021
Rambler’s Forktail (Ischnura ramburii), Jamaica Bay, NY 8/15/2021
Northern Bluet (Enallagma cyathigereum), Jamaica Bay, NY 8/15/2021
Marsh Bluet (Enallagma ebrium), Jamaica Bay, NY 8/16/2021
Silver-Spotted Skipper (Hesperia comma), Jamaica Bay, NY 8/15/2021
Common Buckeye (Junonia coenia), Jamaica Bay, NY 8/15/2021
Two-spotted or a Blue-winged Scoliid Wasp (Scolia dubia), Jamaica Bay, NY 8/15/2021
Yesterday we went to the Chandler Preserve in Mt Sinai, Long Island, New York with the Linnaean Society of NY. After the main field trip was over a few of us went to a field by the Chandler VOR-DME nearby.
Our second trip to Ward Pound Ridge was with The Linnaean Society of NY. It was a good trip and even though it was not ide3al weather, cloudy and cool, we saw a number of butterflies. On here – one there. Marc spotted the Checkerspot. The clumsy landing in the series of the black flying soldier beetle amused me. The last photo is by Marc.
This is one of two posts of the Butterfly Field Trip led by Richard Cech on June 12, 2021.