At a vernal pool. Rusty cap, dark line through the eye. Reddish brown in the wings helps to distinguish from Chipping sparrow. Gray face.
On River birch.
H. pulicare documented to grow on bark of B. nigra:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3479&context=pias
On leaves of Erythronium americanum, with Vankya heufleri (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/208696306). The coloration is strange and I have no idea what it is. The spheres, viewed under 800x, could burst open and release its content.
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Voucher specimen Atha 16202 (NY)
Insect on plant
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/78299397
There is a lot of this plant growing in a bed that also contains a lot of Common Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) and a weedy Legume (see last photo).
I know both Chaerophyllum tainturieri and C. procumbens are unlikely but it seems to come down to them, everything similar (that I can find info on) has many more flowers in their umbellets, except maybe Anthriscus caucilus but its fruits are covered in hooked spines.
I have studied and photographed this species in a few other spots along Hudson River Park during 2020 but not put anything into observations (yet).
@djringer has a very good observation, identified to genus (with very helpful commentary from @mertensia), of what I believe is the same species, in the same general area, from May 2019: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/25315369
Deciduous woods. Same moth, two different lighting conditions. Tulip trees, Oaks, Hickories, Maples nearby
On Pinus strobus
About 3 mm wide
Tadpole. Bronze belly. Either Spring peeper or Wood frog is my guess. Both present here in this pond.
This bee was sleeping. The bee was biting down on the tip of a hickory leaf with her mandibles.
On the surface of a vernal pool, at night
On the underside of a Sycamore maple . Deciduous woods
Lots of them buzzing around and chasing each other.
Deciduous woods. Tulip trees, Oaks, Hickories, Maples nearby
Deciduous woods. Tulip trees, Oaks, Hickories, Maples nearby
Intertidal Midges (Telmatogeton japonicus)?, Bush Terminal Piers Park, Sunset Park, Brooklyn, NYC, April 2024
There were many, and they were so small and moved so fast, these are likely three different individuals.
Mellifluous song
The young leaves glisten like gold in the sunshine
Egg cavities on Viburnum dentatum that have been covered with lids made of the beetle's excrement. Photos 3 and 4 show one of the lids open exposing remains of old eggs.
https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/orn/beetles/viburnum_leaf_beetle.htm
The last four photos show red-seeded dandelion seeds next to common dandelion seeds. The color difference is apparent.
Found among Eastern skunk cabbage. Not far from the NJ State Botanical Garden.
Deciduous woods, hovering just above leaf litter and settling in sunny spots for a few seconds at a time
Several of these bees were going in and out from underneath a decayed log.
In a vernal pool.
Mosquito pupa believe.
These bees don't stay still for more than a few seconds, so photographing them is tricky
The belly of this small tadpole was a metallic bronze color and shimmered in the sun light. In a fresh water pond. Spring peepers and Wood frogs are both present in this pond. So are Bull frogs and Fowler's toads.
On Eastern Poison Ivy . This fly was perched on the poison ivy and was beating her wings at an extremely high rate. Then she stopped beating the wings, and I was able to get clear photos.
Beautiful little flies with tapering, metallic bodies and iridescent wings. Shown on White Wood Asters
Swimming in a fresh water pond . A damselfly larva?
Three babies. One on a branch and two in a tree cavity. Both adults nearby.
In a fresh water pond . Eyes were a beautiful burgundy color.
Along edge of MDNR snowmobile / ATV trail at bridge crossing of Laughing Whitefish River
Swimming in a freshwater pond
Buds finally starting to show.
Mystery tree.
Maybe Japanese tree lilac ?
A small snail with a flattened / planispiral, iridescent shell, found in a vernal pool
In a vernal pool. This particular individual had a beautiful marbled blue coloration on the upper half of the body and two orange down the lower half of the body. A cool little crustacean !
A larva can be seen in a gelatinous mass attached to a hickory (Carya sp) petiole
A tiny sapling that seems afflicted with some rust fungus. The young stem is pubescent. I scratched the twigs and they didn’t yet have the sweet wintergreen smell, so perhaps that’s not always detectable in saplings?
About 3.5 mm in diameter. On an Eastern cottonwood flower. A slug made a cameo in the last photo.
The owl was calling for a while and then went inside the cavity in a large Chestnut oak