Visitors, expected and unexpected: an American woodcock, a purple gallinule, a black-chinned hummingbird, and a Northern parula in NYC this fall.

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A different type of crab spider (f. Thomisidae) catching a sweat bee on a small daisy.

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For those that don't know what lady bug larva look like, here's a Harmonia axyridis larva (also know as the Asian Lady Beetle). As you can see they eat aphids, so if you don't like aphids, let these guys eat them.

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For those who don't like aphids, try to encourage ladybugs. These charismatic beetles are voracious aphid preditors.

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This is a member of the genus Lasioglossum (family Halictidae), a type of sweat bees, and are effective pollinators.

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I think that this is a Larinus turbinatus, which is one of the 'true weevils'. Members of the genus can useful to humans b/c they eat the flower buds of noxious weeds.

#weevils #trueweevils #larinusturbinatus #turbinatus #curculionidae #insects #bugs #entomology #randallsisland #nycparks #canonphotography #luminarneo

I AM NOT SAD

Randall's Island, 2022

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A juvenile ring-billed gull landing on a flooded field on Randall's Island on Saturday.

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