Randall's Island, a nature outing

I spent two hours in the Freshwater Wetlands area of Randall's Island, between noon and 2 pm today. I managed to find a few new lifers, assuming I have ID'ed them correctly:

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Conoytachelus fissunguis -- several of these neat-looking true weevils were deep in a flower of Swamp Rose Mallow
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/89546274

Jumping Bush Cricket -- just one nymph
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/89546121

Eutreta noveboracensis -- a very cute little fruit fly
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/89549908

Coenosia tigrina -- a fly with stripes and hairs
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/89553415

A delicate mushroom growing under a log, next time I need to smell the mushroom.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/89549290

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Butterflies that I saw:

Cabbage White
Zabulon Skipper
Broad-winged Skipper
Monarch
Summer Azure
Eastern Tailed Blue
Red Admiral
Buckeye
Silver-spotted Skipper
Pearl Crescent
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And a few nice other things like five-angled dodder and dodder gall weevil galls in a tree pit on 125th Street.
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Posted on August 2, 2021 01:15 AM by susanhewitt susanhewitt

Observations

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August 1, 2021 12:19 PM EDT

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Zabulon Skipper (Lon zabulon)

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August 1, 2021 12:24 PM EDT

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Milkweed Leaf-miner Fly (Liriomyza asclepiadis)

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August 1, 2021 12:26 PM EDT

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Brown-lipped Snail (Cepaea nemoralis)

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August 1, 2021 12:28 PM EDT

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Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp (Sceliphron caementarium)

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August 1, 2021 12:35 PM EDT

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Broad-winged Skipper (Poanes viator)

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August 1, 2021 12:37 PM EDT

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Swamp Rose Mallow (Hibiscus moscheutos)

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August 1, 2021 12:41 PM EDT

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Zabulon Skipper (Lon zabulon)

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August 1, 2021 12:42 PM EDT

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Jumping Bush Cricket (Hapithus saltator)

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August 1, 2021 12:51 PM EDT

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August 1, 2021 12:54 PM EDT

Description

This was in the tube of a Hedge Bindweed flower.

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August 1, 2021 12:58 PM EDT

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Deep in a flower of swamp rose mallow.

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August 1, 2021 01:00 PM EDT

Description

These two fell out/were shaken out of a Marsh Hibiscus flower, and they came out well covered in pollen grains.

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Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)

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August 1, 2021 01:17 PM EDT

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American Pokeweed (Phytolacca americana)

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August 1, 2021 01:18 PM EDT

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Nearctic Blue Mud-dauber Wasp (Chalybion californicum)

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August 1, 2021 01:21 PM EDT

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Narrow-leaf Bird's-foot Trefoil (Lotus tenuis)

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August 1, 2021 01:29 PM EDT

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Locust Digitate Leafminer Moth (Parectopa robiniella)

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August 1, 2021 01:32 PM EDT

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August 1, 2021 01:37 PM EDT

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Zabulon Skipper (Lon zabulon)

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August 1, 2021 01:40 PM EDT

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Pinwheel Family (Family Marasmiaceae)

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August 1, 2021 01:54 PM EDT

Description

The stipe was super strong, almost like a piece of wire, but reddish towards the distal end.

It did not occur to me to smell this mushroom, unfortunately, because one species is supposed to smell very strongly of garlic.

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Pale Brittlestem (Candolleomyces candolleanus)

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August 1, 2021 01:58 PM EDT

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Lumpy Bracket (Trametes gibbosa)

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August 1, 2021 01:59 PM EDT

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Three-banded Tumbling Flower Beetle (Mordellistena trifasciata)

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August 1, 2021 02:09 PM EDT

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August 1, 2021 02:10 PM EDT

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August 1, 2021 02:10 PM EDT

Description

The gall starts out being made by a Eurosta fly, and then is often or maybe usually taken over by a beetle.

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Coppery Leafhopper (Jikradia olitoria)

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August 1, 2021 02:12 PM EDT

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White-footed Woods Mosquito (Psorophora ferox)

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August 1, 2021 02:15 PM EDT

Description

Both my husband and I got bitten a tremendous amount walking through the woodland of the freshwater wetlands area.

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Common Buckeye (Junonia coenia)

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August 1, 2021 02:20 PM EDT

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Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)

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August 1, 2021 02:21 PM EDT

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August 1, 2021 03:01 PM EDT

Description

This individual accidentally came halfway home in the taxi with us from Randall's Island!

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