Come play pollinator bingo, pick up some pollinator swag, and learn how to observe and identify insect pollinators with the Bonoan Lab!
When: Tuesday, August 2, 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Where: Westerly Land Trust’s Avondale Preserve
Registration is FREE, but required. Click here for registration and more details on getting to Avondale.
UPDATE: Safari Report & Species List
Over 30 people joined us for the Pollinator Safari–including ABC6’s Kelly Bates! We observed over 20 flower-visiting insects and everyone (kids and adults alike) enjoyed using our new insect vacuums! Believe it or not, we observed all of those species on less than a quarter-mile walk into the Avondale Farm Preserve from the Quail Run parking lot. To see up-close photos of many of these species, visit my student Alexa Pudlo’s digital collection. Stay tuned for our ABC6 news segment!
Bees & wasps (Hymenoptera)
- Bicolored striped sweat bee (Agapostemon virescens)
- Western honey bee (Apis mellifera)
- Two-spotted bumble bee (Bombus bimacutalus)
- Golden Northern bumble bee (Bombus fervidus)
- Brown-belted bumble bee (Bombus griseocollis)
- Common Eastern bumble bee (Bombus impatiens)
- Blue mud wasp (Chalybion californium)
- Ligated furrow bee (Halictus ligatus)
- Small sweat bee (Lasioglossum)
- Leafcutter bee (Megachile)
- Two-spotted longhorn bee (Melissodes bimaculatus)
- Great black digger wasp (Sphex pensylvanicus)
- Eastern yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons)
- Eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica)
Butterflies (Lepidoptera)
- Sulphur butterfly (Colias)
- Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus)
- American copper butterfly (Lycaena phlaeas)
- Peck’s skipper (Polites peckius)
- Cabbage white butterfly (Pieris rapae)
Flies (Diptera)
- Black-shouldered drone fly (Eristalis dimidiata)
- Orange-legged drone fly (Eristalis flavipes)
- Transverse banded flower fly (Eristalis transversa)
- Eastern calligrapher fly (Toxomerus geminatus)
- Margined calligrapher fly (Toxomerus marginatus)
Beetles (Coleoptera)
- False potato beetle (Leptinotarsa juncta)
Other
- False milkweed bug (Lygaeus turcicus)
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