This July, the Bonoan Lab returned to Westerly Land Trust’s Avondale Farm Preserve for our third Pollinator Safari! This year, we were joined by the URI Bee Lab and RI DEM’s Pollinator Atlas Entomologist. Learn more about our past Pollinator Safaris (and the news coverage!) by clicking here.
Safari Report & Species List
Despite the foggy weather, we observed over 20 flower-visiting insect species, 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)
- Wilke’s mining bee (Andrena wilkella)
- Bicolored striped sweat bee (Agapostemon virescens)
- European honey bee (Apis mellifera)
- Green metallic sweat bee (Tribe: Augochlorini)
- Brown-belted bumble bee (Bombus griseocollis)
- Common Eastern bumble bee (Bombus impatiens)
- Half-black bumble bee (Bombus vagans/sandersoni)
- Confused sweat bee (Halictus confusus)
- Ligated furrow bee (Halictus ligatus)
- Masked bee (Hylaeus sp.)
- Grass-carrying wasp (Isodontia sp.)
- Small sweat bee (Lasioglossum sp.)
- Resin bee (Megachile sp.)
- Four-toothed mason wasp (Monobia quadridens)
- Eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica)
Butterflies (Lepidoptera)
- Sulphur butterfly (Colias)
- Eastern tailed blue butterfly (Cupido comyntas)
Flies (Diptera)
- Eastern calligrapher fly (Toxomerus geminatus)
- Margined calligrapher fly (Toxomerus marginatus)
- Robber fly (Family: Asilidae)
Beetles (Coleoptera)
- Seven-spot ladybird beetle (Coccinella septempunctata)
- Dogbane beetle (Chrysochus auratus)
- Red milkweed beetle (Tetraopes tetrophthalmus)
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