Chicago Quarry HawkWatch

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 My family and I have started the first recurring HawkWatch in the Chicago city limits! This page is dedicated to all of our visits to Palmisano Park in Bridgeport, Chicago. Also see the Hawkcount site info.

7.11.26 Prairie Rosinweed

Below is a list of Love of Bugs posts with my photographic records from visits to Palmisano Park.

• 8.8.26 (not insects) Pictured: Song Sparrow, Red-winged Blackbird, Broadleaf Arrowhead, Prickly Lettuce, Lady's Thumb smartweed, Giant Bulrush, Canada Goldenrod, Slippery Elm, Common Duckweed, algea, Chinese Pennisetum.

• 8.8.26 (insects) Pictured: Green Darner, Band-winged Meadowhawk, Black Swallowtail, Monarch, Wild Indigo Duskywing, wild indigo, Black-and-gold or Golden Northern Bumble Bee, Common Eastern Bumble Bee, Eastern Boxelder Bug, Great Black Digger Wasp, Thread-waisted Sand Wasp, American Sand Wasp, Metallic Harpalus, Western Honey Bee, Black Diabrotica, ants, Partridge Pea, Large Milkweed Bug, Pearl Crescent, European Paper Wasp and a Common European Greenbottle Fly nd Broadleaf Arrowhead flower.

• 8.7.26 (pollinators) Pictured: Orange Sulfur or Clouded Yellow, Brown Belted Bumble Bee and a Black Diabrotica beetle, Red-belted Bumble Bee drone, Common Eastern Bumble Bee, Great Black Digger Wasp and a Goldenrod Soldier Beetle.

• 8.7.26 Pictured: Grapevine Beetle, Widow Skimmer, American Trumpet Vine flowers, Blue Dasher, Partridge Pea, Band-winged Meadowhawk, Eastern Forktail, Eastern Amberwing, Green Darners, ant, Oak Lace Bugs, algae, oak, duckweed, and Swamp Rose Mallow.

• 8.2.26 Butterflies, moths, flies, and plants Pictured: Dense Blazing Star, Rattlesnake Master, Maryland Senna, unidentified Wild Indigo, Graceful Cattail, Prickly Lettuce, Partridge Pea, Butterfly Milkweed, Riverbank Grape, Garden Webworm Moths, Fly, Orange Sulfur, Pale Purple Coneflower, Sideoats Grama, and Gray-headed Coneflower, Black Diabrotica beetles, Common Green Bottle Fly, Rattlesnake Master, and ant mound.

• 8.2.26 Palmisano Park, Chicago, IL Ants, bees, & wasps Pictured: Great Black Digger Wasp, Virginia Mountain Mint, Bumble Bee drone, Prairie Blazing Star, Boneset, Eastern Carpenter Bee, Rattlesnake Master, Bicolored Striped Sweat Bee, Pale Purple Coneflower, Ants, Oleander Aphid honeydew, Common Eastern Bumble Bee.

• 7.11.26 I Pictured: Common Green June Beetle, Condylostylus sp., Common Greenbottle Fly, Band-winged Meadowhawk, Band-winged Meadowhawk, Lady beetle pupa, Oleander Aphids, European Paper Wasp, Black Diabrotica, Large Milkweed Bug, Louisiana Painted-Dark Bee, Showy Tick-trefoil flower, and Eastern Kingbird.

• 7.11.26 II Pictured: Golden Northern (aka Yellow) Bumble Bee, Confusing Bumble Bee, Monarch, two-spotted Bumble bee, Black-eyed Susan, Virginia Mountan Mint and Western Honey Bees.

• 7.6.26 (not bees) Pictured: Eastern Amberwing, Band-winged Meadowhawk, Widow Skimmer, Monarch butterfly, Black Swallowtail, Orange Sulphur, European Paper Wasp, Neararctic Blue Mud-dauber, ants, Partridge Pea, Goldenrod Soldier Beetle, Morning Glory, Green Darner, Brown-headed Cowbird, and landscape.

• 7.6.26 (bees) Pictured: Yellow Bumble Bees, Black-and-gold Bumble Bees, Brown-belted Bumble Bees, Two-spotted Bumble Bee, Pale Purple Coneflower, and Wild Bergamot.

• 6.22.26 Pictured: Black Swallowtails, Red Milkweed Beetles, Bumble Bees, Eastern Carpenter Bees, Double-crested Cormorant, and turtles.

• 6.20.26 Pictured: Widow Skimmer, Red Milkweed Beetles, Ohio Spiderwort flowers, common milkweed, Black Saddlebags, Goldenrod Soldier Beetle, Common St. John's Wort, Western Honey Bee, Bumble Bee, Asian Lady Beetle, Black Swallowtail, Black-crowned Night Heron, Canada Geese, Blue Wild Indigo, Queen of the Prairie, turtles, Prairie Milkweed, and Western Honey Bee.

• 6.15.26 Pictured: Twelve-spotted Skimmer, moth, beetle, spiny softshell turtle, common snapping turtle, painted turtle/red-eared sliders, Canada Geese, Prairie Milkweed, and a jumping spider.

• 4.10.26 Pictured: American Robin, moss Golden-crowned Kinglet, and Common Easter Bumble Bee.

• 4.9.26 Pictured: Bumble Flower Beetle, Green Darner, Canada Geese, Downy Woodpecker, Red Winged Blackbird, Field Sparrow, Plains Garter Snake, and Chinese Mantis Ootheca,

• 12.20.25 Pictured: Palmisano Park landscape images, skyline images, and vole guts.

• 10.17.25 Pictured: Virginian Tiger Moth caterpillar, Woolly Bear caterpillar, Orange Sulphur, Oblong Running Spider, and Spotted Orbweaver.


• 9.19.25 Pictured: Oblong Running Spider, Black Swallowtail, Monarch, Fiery Skipper, Giant Leopard Moth caterpillar, Vagabond Sod Webworm Moth, Spotted Orbweaver, and Two-striped Grasshopper.

• 9.9.25 Pictured: Black Swallowtail caterpillar, Virginian Tiger Moth, Eastern Tailed-blue, Orange Sulphur, Pearl Crescent, European Paper Wasp, Common Eastern Bumble Bee an Common European Greenbottle Fly, Goldenrod Soldier Beetle, Swamp White Oak, and Spiring Field Cricket.


• 9.2.25 Pictured: Chinese Mantis, Black Swallowtail, Monarch, Eastern Tailed-Blue, Orange Sulphur, Common Buckeye, Chickweed Geometer, European Paper Wasp, Yellow-legged Mud-dauber, Western Honey Bee, Eastern Carpenter Bee, Goldenrod Soldier Beetles, Dark Flower Scarab, unidentified foam, Bumble Flower Beetle, and Aulacigaster sp.