The Crossing Church, May 6

Fragile Forktail
Eastern Forktail
Common Whitetail

Monarch
American Lady
Pearl Crescent
Variegated Fritillary
Gray Hairstreak
Dainty / Little Yellow
Orange Sulphur
Common Buckeye
Cabbage White
Sachem
Least Skipper
Tawny-edged Skipper

Ladybug
Tumbling Flower Beetle
Cucumber beetle

Leafhopper

Bumble bees

Great Blue Heron
Red-winged Blackbird
Canada Goose
Northern Mockingbird

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Stephen's Lake, May 5

Common Buckeye
unidentified Lady
Dainty Sulphur
Great Spangled Fritillary
Pearl Crescent
Eastern Tailed-Blue
Cabbage White
Orange Sulphur

Six-spotted Tiger Beetle

Damselfly
Common Whitetail


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Stephens Lake, May 2

Variegated Fritillary
Orange Sulphur
Little Yellow



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Stephens Lake, May 1

While riding my StreetStrider, I saw a Mourning Cloak besides a few common butterflies. I just saw a pair of Eastern Kingbirds near the top of a tall tree after hearing their distinctive calls.


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Rock Bridge Memorial State Park, April 26, 2012

List of insect species seen:

Butterflies and Skippers:
Pearl Crescent
Clouded Sulphur
Eastern Tailed-Blue
Orange sulphur
American Lady
Colias, white form females
Red Admiral
American Snout
Anglewing, Polygonia
Black Swallowtail (tentative id)
Great Spangled Fritillary
Cloudywing

Moths:
Deep Yellow Euchlaena
Celery Webworm Moth


Dragonflies
Common Whitetail




Birds noticed:
Northern Parula
Blue-winged Warbler

Runge Nature Center, Cole County, Missouri

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Highlight of the day: dozens of Red Admirals; late afternoon there were at least 20 on a single bush

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Spicebush Swallowtail
Red Admiral
Monarch
Eastern Tailed-Blue
Juniper Hairstreak
Red-banded Hairstreak
Eastern Tent Caterpillars

Six-spotted Tiger Beetle
Milkweed Longhorn
Rove Beetle
Whirligig Beetles

Common Green Darner (ovipositing)
Common Whitetails (ovipositing)
Spreadwing Damselfly

Flower Flies
Bumble Bee

First periodical cicadas today in Boone county!


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