Coney Island 19Sep20

From KH

Coney Island is such a haven for insects. First and foremost, here are some of the bees. A banded-digger bee was collecting nectar from Porterweed before heading over to bite on a blade of grass. To rest?

While this male White-cheeked Carpenter Bee hovered around. From my observations, he likes to return to roughly the same spot to hover. Hence, I could point my camera at a spot that it has hovered over and wait for it to return.

Next, some of the beetles. What a shiny beetle Platycorynus robustus and a pretty Variable Ladybird Coelophora inaequalis.

A damselfly, male Common Bluetail.

Golden-armed Mantis vs Asian Ant Mantis - who will win??

A Phlaeoba infumata and a Javanese Grasshopper nymph.

A flesh fly.

A Dark-branded Bushbrown.

A Pelopidas skipper.

A few Lesser Darts.

Bidens alba

A Cosmolestes picticeps assassin bug and its nymph.

A leafhopper: an Orange Sharpshooter.

A couple of Ricaniid planthoppers: left unid, right Ricania taeniata.

A couple of wolf spiders - Lawn Wolf Spider, a unid wolf spider.

A couple of jumping spiders - female Metallic Blue Jumper, a unid jumping spider.

A Rusty Millipede.

Not forgetting the vertebrates: a Bowring's Supple Skink.

And of course the birds, like this Oriental Magpie-robin.