Incredible Insects
This morning at the Lehigh Gap Nature Center, a group went in search of insects near the Kittatinny Ponds. The five observers focused on butterflies, dragonflies, and damselflies, but also looked at any insects they could find.
Damselflies:
Elegant Spreadwing
Swamp Spreadwing
Variable Dancer
Powdered Dancer
Blue-fronted Dancer
Stream Bluet
Azure Bluet
Fragile Forktail
Eastern Forktail
Dragonflies:
Common Green Darner
Black-shouldered Spinyleg
Lancet Clubtail
Common Baskettail
Eastern Pondhawk
Spangled Skimmer
Slaty Skimmer
Widow Skimmer
Twelve-spotted Skimmer
Blue Dasher
Common Whitetail
Meadowhawk sp.
Black Saddlebags
Butterflies:
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Spicebush Swallowtail
Cabbage White
Orange Sulphur
Great Spangled Fritillary
Pearl Crescent
Red Admiral
Wild Indigo Duskywing
Crossline Skipper
Northern Broken-Dash
Little Glassywing
Delaware Skipper
Other insects:
Carolina Locust (Dissosteira carolina)
Sidewalk Tiger Beetle (Cicindela punctulata)
Asian Multicolored Lady Beetle (Harmonia axyridis)
Margined Leatherwing (Soldier Beetle) (Chauliognathus marginatus)
Red Milkweed Beetle (Tetraopes tetrophthalmus)
Banded Longhorn (Typocerus velutinus)
Antlion (Brachynemurus sp.)
Long-legged Fly
Beefly
Blue Dasher
Syrphid Fly
Widow Skimmer
Variable Dancer
Powdered Dancer
