22-JUL-2009
Gray treefrog
After the FWG management meeting Diane and I did our usual check of the outside of the building to see what was around. Not much, as it turned out, although we did see a lot of graceful mayflies, a katydid, some moths including an Isabella Tiger Moth (better known in its caterpillar stage as the Woolly Bear). And one Gray Treefrog waiting to snare a passing insect.
17 July 2009
Milkweed floret
Stephen Bégin sent us the following photos. He says, "I just wanted to submit a few pictures I took at the FWG. I only discovered the FWG (and the OFNC) this year but I'm really enjoying it and am pleased to see there is a place to share pictures. I am not very good at identifying insects, so unfortunately aside from the aphid giving birth which I think is a brown ambrosia aphid, I couldn't really narrow down the rest.
17 July 2009
Jumping spider (Phidippus clarus
Despite the four eyes (there are four smaller ones on top of its head) and the mouth parts that look like something from an alien in Star Wars, this tiny jumping spider is rather cute.
17 July 2009
Jumping spider (Phidippus clarus)
In this image, the same spider seems to have caught an even smaller blue insect with white wings.
17 July 2009
Grasshopper
Many grasshoppers (and leafhoppers) can be found at the FWG at this time of year. In this closeup, you can see the armour-like exoskeleton of this brown grasshopper. Can you see the minuscule orange spider mite at the first joint of its middle right leg?
17 July 2009
Ctenucha moth (Ctenucha virginica), #8262
17 July 2009
Long-legged fly (Condylostylus sp.)
Possibly a Condylostylus sp.
17 July 2009
Lacewing
Green lacewing, possibly Chrysopa oculata
17 July 2009
Asian lady beetle (Harmonia axyridis)
Asian ladybeetle with faint spots and mostly white "face"
17 July 2009
Green grasshopper
A green species of grasshopper. Stephen thinks this might be a young two-striped grasshopper (Melanoplus bivitattus)
17 July 2009
Leafhopper nymph
Possibly Coelidia olitoria