This June, the Bonoan Lab was lucky enough to be invited back to Westerly Land Trust’s Avondale Farm Preserve for our second Pollinator Safari! Learn more about last year’s Pollinator Safari (and the news coverage!) by clicking here.
Safari Report & Species List
Again, we observed over 20 flower-visiting insects, all within less than a 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 lab’s (growing) digital collection.
Bees & wasps (Hymenoptera)
- Dunning’s Mining Bee (Andrena dunningi)
- 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)
- Small carpenter bee (Ceratina sp.)
- Ligated furrow bee (Halictus ligatus)
- Masked bee (Hylaeus sp.)
- Small sweat bee (Lasioglossum)
- Long-horned bee (Melissodes sp.)
- Northern paper wasp (Polistes fuscatus)
- Yellow-legged mud-dauber wasp (Sceliphron caementarium)
- Great black digger wasp (Sphex pensylvanicus)
- Eastern yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons)
Butterflies (Lepidoptera)
- Sulphur butterfly (Colias)
- American copper butterfly (Lycaena phlaeas)
- Peck’s skipper (Polites peckius)
- Cabbage white butterfly (Pieris rapae)
Flies (Diptera)
- Transverse banded flower fly (Eristalis transversa)
- Eastern calligrapher fly (Toxomerus geminatus)
- Margined calligrapher fly (Toxomerus marginatus)
Beetles (Coleoptera)
- Seven-spot ladybird beetle (Coccinella septempunctata)
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