10.7.26 Palmisano Park, Chicago, IL (insects I)

 


Wild Indigo Duskywing, a species of skipper butterfly common to Palmisano

Wild Indigo Duskywing

Yummy aster nectar

Flying off!

Common Eastern Bumble Bee

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Bumbler

Another Common Eastern Bumbler

Cute

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Brown-belted Bumbler

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Black Swallowtail

Perched on Indiangrass seeds

Black Swallowtail

Unidentified species of Euschistus stink bug. Euschistus is a genus of native stink bugs sometimes called Brown Stink Bugs. However, this is NOT the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug, which is invasive

Euschistus tummy

Western Honey Bee (invasive)

Common Green Bottle Flies (invasive)

Common European Flesh Fly (invasive, also bearing the visceral scientific name of Sarcophaga carnaria. The maggots eat carcasses like that rat that died in the wall of my family and my house.)

Unidentified Hemipteran (Hemiptera including Stink Bugs, other true bugs, aphids, and cicadas)

Unidentified sternorrhynchan bugs, possibly mealybugs

Alydus eurinus on my dad's arm

This insect usually feeds on plant sap, but is shown here sipping sweat off of my dad's arm. (Sap lacks the Sodium Fluoride salt ions found in sweat, and all animals need Sodium and Fluorine ions to survive.)


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