A quick photo-diary on insect and flower sightings in western New York over Labor Day weekend. Photos are from a variety of places including Selkirk Shores State Park, Black River Trail (Watertown, NY), and Geneseo, NY. A few of these were included in other diaries relating to this trip.
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I am mainly familiar with the seed heads of Teasel after it has bloomed. And swaths of it can be seen along the roadsides in New York state now. Here it was mixed in with milkweed, goldenrod, pokeweed, orange jewelweed, wild lettuce and a number of other meadow plants.
More below the fold.
While walking in the woods we located a bumblebee nest that was in a fallen log. (No picture here since it was just a log in the woods with a crack on the end of it.)
Trees right around the house in Geneseo are apple, pear*, and a lot of dogwood, sumac, buckthorn and hawthorn that have gotten established. * — The pear was hard to identify due to being thoroughly coated by grape and virginia creeper vines.
The long ovipositor is so the female wasp can get to the larva of Pigeon Horntails that live in tunnels in dying or decaying wood in order to lay eggs on them.
White on green — but it looks a lot like a smear of bird droppings!
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