User:Rhododendrites/Insects of New York City

(Spiders)

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  Agelenopsis (grass spider), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Argiope auranita (yellow garden spider) in a web with stabilimentum, Central Park
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  Argiope auranita (yellow garden spider) in a web with stabilimentum, Central Park
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  Leucauge venusta (orchard orbweaver) juvenile, Prospect Park
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  Mecynogea lemniscata (basilica orbweaver), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Neoscona crucifera (spotted orb weaver) wrapping a bee, Prospect Park
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  Verrucosa arenata (arrowhead orb weaver), Prospect Park

Coleoptera (beetles)

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  Cotinis nitida (green june beetle), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Meloe americanus (oil beetle), Floyd Bennett Field
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  Meloe americanus (oil beetle), Floyd Bennett Field
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  Mordella marginata (tumbling ragdoll), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Tylosis longhorned beetle, Central Park

Diptera (flies and mosquitos)

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  Cerotainia robber fly with prey, Central Park
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  Cerotainia robber fly, Prospect Park
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  Cerotainia robber fly, Prospect Park
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  Condylostylus patibulatus, Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Condylostylus patibulatus, Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Dolichopodidae (long-legged fly), Prospect Park
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  Efferia aestuans robber fly, Prospect Park
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  Eristalis dimidiata (black-shouldered drone fly), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Eristalis tenax (European drone fly), Central Park
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  Eristalis tenax (European drone fly), Central Park
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  Eristalis transversa (transverse-banded flower fly), Central Park
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  Holcocephala abdominalis (gnat ogre), Prospect Park
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  Holcocephala fusca (gnat ogre), Prospect Park
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  Holcocephala fusca (gnat ogre), Prospect Park
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  Laphrinnae robber fly, Prospect Park
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  Lucilia (green bottle fly), Bellevue Sobriety Garden
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  Odontomyia cincta (soldier fly), Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
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  Paragus haemorrhous (black-backed grass skimmer), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Psyillidae galls (plant lice), Prospect Park
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  Sarcophaga (flesh fly), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Toxomerus geminatus (eastern calligrapher), Prospect Park
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  Trichopoda pennipes (swift feather-legged fly), Central Park
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  Xenox tigrinus (tiger bee fly), Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
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  Xenox tigrinus (tiger bee fly), Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge

Hemiptera (true bugs)

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  Cosmopepla lintneriana (twice-stabbed stink bug), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Gerridae (water striders), Trepobates and Rheumatobates, Prospect Park
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  Glatormenis proxima (northern flatid planthopper), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Lycorma delicatula (spotted lanternfly) nymph, Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Lycorma delicatula (spotted lanternfly), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Lycorma delicatula (spotted lanternfly), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Lygaeidae (milkweed bug), Brooklyn Bridge Park
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  Lygaeidae (milkweed bug), Brooklyn Bridge Park
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  Neotibicen (dog day cicada), Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
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  Neurocolpus nubilus (clouded plant bug), Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Hymenoptera (ants, bees, wasps, sawflies)

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  Atanycolus braconid wasp, Green-Wood Cemetery
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  Augochlora pura (golden sweat bee), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus (four-banded stink bug hunter wasp), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Bombus griseocollis (brown-belted bumble bee), Prospect Park
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  Bombus griseocollis (brown-belted bumble bee), Central Park
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  Bombus griseocollis (brown-belted bumble bee), Central Park
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  Bombus impatiens (common eastern bumble bee), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Bombus impatiens (common eastern bumble bee), Central Park
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  Bombus impatiens (common eastern bumble bee), Central Park
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  Ceratina (small carpenter bee), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Dialictus (subgenus of Lasioglossum) (metallic sweat bee), Prospect Park
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  Dolichovespula maculata (bald-faced hornet), Central Park
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  Dolichovespula maculata (bald-faced hornet) nest, Prospect Park
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  Dolichovespula maculata (bald-faced hornet) nest, Governors Island
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  Eumenes fraternus (fraternal potter wasp), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Halictus ligatus (ligated furrow bee), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Halictus ligatus (ligated furrow bee), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Isodontia elegans (elegant grass-carrying wasp), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Lyroda subita, Green-Wood Cemetery
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  Melissodes bimaculatus (two-spotted longhorn bee), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Monobia quadridens (four-toothed mason wasp), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Philanthus gibbosus (hump-backed beewolf), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Pseudodynerus quadrisectus (potter wasp), Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
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  Scolia dubia (blue-winged wasp), Bellevue Sobriety Garden
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  Scolia dubia (blue-winged wasp), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Scolia dubia (blue-winged wasp), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Scolia dubia (blue-winged wasp), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Sphecius speciosus (eastern cicada killer), Prospect Park
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  Sphecius speciosus (eastern cicada killer), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Sphecius speciosus (eastern cicada killer), Prospect Park
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  Sphex ichneumoneus (great golden digger wasp), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Sphex ichneumoneus (great golden digger wasp), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Sphex pensylvanicus (great black digger wasp), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Xylocopa virginica (eastern carpenter bee), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Xylocopa virginica (eastern carpenter bee), Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths)

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  Atalopedes campestris (sachem), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Calycopis cecrops (red-banded hairstreak), Central Park
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  Celastrina argiolus (holly blue), Central Park
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  Celastrina neglecta (summer azure), Prospect Park
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  Colias eurytheme (orange sulphur), Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
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  Colias eurytheme (orange sulphur), Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
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  Colias eurytheme (orange sulphur), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Colias eurytheme (orange sulphur), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Danaus plexippus (monarch), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Danaus plexippus (monarch), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Danaus plexippus (monarch), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Epargyreus clarus (silver-spotted skipper), Prospect Park
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  Epargyreus clarus (silver-spotted skipper), Central Park
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  Euphyes vestris (dun skipper), Prospect Park
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  Hesperia (branded skipper), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Hesperiinae (skipper), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Hesperiinae (skipper), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Hesperiinae (skipper), Central Park
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  Hesperiinae (skipper), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Hypena snout-nosed moth, Green-Wood Cemetery
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  Junonia coenia (common buckeye), Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
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  Nymphalis antiopa (mourning cloak), Prospect Park
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  Nymphalis antiopa (mourning cloak), Central Park
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  Papilio glaucus (eastern tiger swallowtail), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Papilio polyxenes (eastern black swallowtail), Governors Island
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  Pholisora catullus (common sootywing), Bellevue Sobriety Garden
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  Phyciodes cocyta (northern crescent), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Pieris rapae (cabbage white), Bellevue Sobriety Garden
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  Pieris rapae (cabbage white), Central Park
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  Pieris rapae (cabbage white), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Pieris rapae (cabbage white), Central Park
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  Poanes melane (umber skipper), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Poanes zabulon (zabulon skipper), Prospect Park
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  Poanes zabulon (zabulon skipper), Central Park
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  Poanes zabulon (zabulon skipper), Central Park
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  Poanes zabulon (zabulon skipper), Central Park
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  Vanessa atalanta (red admiral), Central Park
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  Vanessa atalanta (red admiral), Central Park
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  Vanessa atalanta (red admiral), Central Park
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  Vanessa atalanta (red admiral), Central Park
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  Vanessa cardui (painted lady), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Vanessa cardui (painted lady), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Vanessa cardui (painted lady), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Vanessa cardui (painted lady), Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
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  Vanessa virginiensis (American lady), Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Mantodea (mantises)

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  Tenodera sinensis (Chinese mantis) oothecae, Gerritsen Beach
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  Tenodera sinensis (Chinese mantis) oothecae, Gerritsen Beach
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  Tenodera sinensis (Chinese mantis) oothecae, Gerritsen Beach

Odonata (damselflies and dragonflies)

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  Anax Junius (common green darner), Prospect Park
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  Enallagma aspersum (azure bluet), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Enallagma civile (familiar bluets) mating in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
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  Enallagma civile (familiar bluet) with prey in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
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  Enallagma cyathigerum (northern bluets) in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
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  Ischnura posita (fragile forktail), Prospect Park
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  Ischnura posita (fragile forktail), Prospect Park
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  Ischnura verticalis (eastern forktail), Central Park
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  Lestes rectangularis (slender spreadwing), Prospect Park
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  Libellula incesta (slaty skimmer), Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
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  Libellula pulchella (twelve-spotted skimmer), Prospect Park
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  Libellula vibrans (great blue skimmer), Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Pachydiplax longipennis (blue dasher) female, Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Pachydiplax longipennis (blue dasher) male, Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Pachydiplax longipennis (blue dasher) male, Central Park
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  Perithemis tenera (eastern amberwing) male, Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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  Perithemis tenera (eastern amberwing) male, Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets, and katydids)

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  Melanoplus femurrubrum (red-legged grasshopper), Central Park