Test post: Sunday, September 2, 2018

[ Posted Monday 9/3 ]

Seen in garden, afternoon around 2pm:

  • On great blue lobelia: 1 bumble bee (likely American bumble bee/bombus pennsylvanicus) & 2 goldenrod soldier beetles. Beetles mating and moving around the plant while attached. Same insects observed the day before (9/1). Also 1 Silver-spotted skipper.
  • On abelia: 1 hummingbird moth visited flowers in bloom. Did not come to lobelia, possibly because I was standing there?
  • On coastal plain tickseed: 1 orange assassin bug
  • Robber fly, later ID'ed as red-footed cannibal fly: hanging around coneflowers and abelias, did not see it hunting or carrying prey
  • Woodland pinkroot: late blooms on 2 of 4 plants.
  • Ants on lobelia and woodland pinkroot - not sure of species
Posted on September 3, 2018 02:25 PM by ch3chia ch3chia

Observations

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American Bumble Bee (Bombus pensylvanicus)

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ch3chia

Description

On great blue lobelia in residential garden

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Goldenrod Soldier Beetle (Chauliognathus pensylvanicus)

Observer

ch3chia

Description

Goldenrod soldier beetles mating, on great blue lobelia in residential garden

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Orange Assassin Bug (Pselliopus barberi)

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ch3chia

Description

On coastal plain tickseed in residential garden, Durham, North Carolina

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Red-footed Cannibal Fly (Promachus rufipes)

Observer

ch3chia

Description

Seen in residential garden, resting on coneflower seed head & abelia, Durham, NC

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Snowberry Clearwing (Hemaris diffinis)

Observer

ch3chia

Description

Visiting abelia flowers in residential garden

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