Early November Insects

November 10, 2012
MKT Trail

Common Buckeye
3 Dainty Sulphurs
1 Checkered White

I'm trying to keep records daily so I can see the species, date and location of the last butterfly of 2012.

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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A carpenter bee (Xylocopa sp.) just flew across the yard chasing a Monarch then spun around after a bird flying the opposite direction.


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Iliniwek Village State Historic Site, July 13

Mosquitoes!
Unidentified Syrphid

Red-spotted purple
Little yellow
Dainty sulphur
Monarch
Eastern tiger swallowtail
Hackberry emperor

Blue dasher
Wandering glider
Unidentified damselfly

Gray catbird
Mourning dove
Carolina wren
Northern flicker

There for about 1 hour. Hiked to the long house with a stop to follow the damselfly for photos. And a stop for mosquito photos which was harder than expected. I collected 3 to key out - with 1 ant as bycatch.

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Eastern amberwing
Baskettail
Common whitetail
Widow skimmer
Eastern pondhawk
Fragile forktail

Silver-spotted skipper
Pipevine swallowtail
Dainty Sulphur
Little yellow
Orange Sulphur
Hackberry Emperor
Red admiral
Common Buckeye
Cloudless Sulphur
Monarch
Azure
Variegated Fritillary
Duskywing
Pearl crescent
Least skipper
Eastern tailed-blue

Velvet ant
Robber flies - Proctacanthus hinei, Efferia
Moth fly
Mydas fly
Bee fly
Whirlygig beetles
Planthoppers - Metcalfa pruinosa (Citrus Flatid Planthopper)
Treehopper
Water striders

Robin
Eastern kingbird
Indigo bunting
Baltimore oriole
Cardinal
Bobwhite
Red-headed woodpecker
Mourning dove
Flicker
Canada goose
Catbird
Mockingbird
Orchard oriole
Chipping sparrow
Downy woodpecker
Blue jay

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Cuivre River, June 29

We headed here hoping for a Striped Hairstreak, but none so far. Probably at least 50 Pipevine Swallowtails nectaring at purple coneflowers.

Pipevine swallowtails
Eastern Tiger swallowtail & black female
Cloudless sulphur
Little yellow
Snout
Pearl cresent
Azure
Wood satyr
Painted Lichen moth
Eastern tailed-blue
Least skipper
Silver spotted skipper
Great spangled fritillary
Monarch
Question mark
Silvery checkerspot
Celery webworms

Clubtails
Pondhawk
Widow skimmer
Eastern Amberwing
Slaty skimmer
Common whitetail
Baskettail
Blue dasher

Damselflies - several species unidentified right now.
Moesta

Louisiana waterthrush
Carolina wren
Turkey vulture
Nuthatch
Flicker
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Great crested flycatcher
Robin
Phoebe
Catbird
Bobwhite
Pewee
Chat





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Cole County, May 27

Hackberry emperor
Least skipper
Orange sulphur
Red admiral
Azure
Monarch
Monarch caterpillar
Little wood-satyr
Polygonia
Dainty sulphur
Gray hairstreak
Great spangled fritillary
Giant swallowtail
Spicebush swallowtail

Dun skipper
Zabulon skipper

Bird-dropping moth
Moon-lined moth
Geometrid

Eastern pondhawk
Green darner
Black saddlebags
Spangled skimmer
Common whitetail
Twelve-spotted skimmer
Blue dasher

Lestes
Bluet
Citrine forktail
Eastern forktail

Bee fly
Crane fly
Syrphid fly

Spittle bugs
Giant water bug

Six-spotted tiger beetle
Firefly
Checkered beetle

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Orange sulphur
Common buckeye
Azure
Dainty sulphur
Little wood-satyr
Polygonia sp.
Monarch

Twelve-spotted skimmer
Common whitetail
Green darner
Eastern pondhawk
Possible Comet darner
Forktail
Black saddlebags
Blue dasher
Widow skimmer
Spangled skimmer
Slaty skimmer
Gomphidae
Baskettail

Lixus
Click beetle
Firefly

Spittlebugs
Bee fly

I also saw a Brown Thrasher bring nestling droppings from the nest and drop them into a pond.

White-eyed vireo
Baltimore oriole
Eastern kingbird

Chipmunk

On Saturday, I saw a Brenthia in Boone County.


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I watched what I think was a Common Whitetail emerge just after noon on a somewhat cooler day than we've been having. I'll edit this post later to add details and a photo.

Sightings:
Red-banded hairstreak
Common whitetail
Backswimmers
Water striders
Fragile forktail
Eastern forktail
Springwater dancer?
Zabulon Skipper
Painted lady
Red admiral
Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle
Cucumber Beetle
Publilia concava with ants
Carpenter Bee
Syrphid








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Sightings

Citrine forktail
Green darner
Black saddlebags
Eastern forktail
Lestes
Baskettail
Common whitetail
springwater dancer
Blue corporal
Monarch
Question mark
Red hairstreak
Red-spotted purple
Painted lady
Red admiral
Peck's skipper
Juvenal's duskywing
Orange sulphur
Backswimmer
Giant water bug
Whirlygig beetles
Water striders
Ants & aphids
Six-spotted tiger beetle





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Taking photos of a female Pipevine Swallowtail laying eggs on the pipevines growing in our yard. Pipevines in bloom.


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Lots of green lacewings flying around on this warm, sunny day.


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Spring Sightings

Water Striders, Eastern Comma, and plasterer bees in cental Missouri on 3/18. Flies at bait on 3/19. Forsythia blooming on 3/23. Dung fly (Scathophagidae) photo from 3/19 at http://donnabrunet.com/pages/stock/flies/scathophagidae.html

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Antlion

On February 23rd, I noticed what appeared to be a freshly dug antlion pit in the colony by our front door. It was very small - only about 1/2" across. I'm guessing that it was formed on either the 18th or 19th when it warmed up to the low 40s.





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