Red-eyed Bee
Centris rhodopus
female
Tornillo Creek
near its confluence with
the Rio Grande
Hot Springs,
Big Bend National Park,
Brewster Co., Texas
3 May 2010
Strange orange mutant from Brood XIX, probably a tredecassini. This individual never developed out of this coloration over several days of observation.
While I was photographing some hummingbirds, I noticed this snowberry clearwing moth that was nectaring on the butterfly bush. I only had my big lens so I turned it towards the beautiful moth and began taking pictures of it.
Mientras que tomaba fotos de unos colibrÃs, me fijé en esta polilla esfinge, Hemaris diffinis, que libaba néctar de este arbusto, Buddleja davidii. Sólo tenÃa mi objetivo grande pero no me importaba. Giré el trÃpode con la lente en dirección de la polilla y empecé a tomar fotos.
Observed and photographed from a distanced and obscured location as to not disturb the animal. "Scranton" used as general location.
If anyone knows what he is eating in the last two pics, please let me know! Very curious but personally am unsure.
Found one of the rare blue eyes cicadas in Glen Ellyn IL!
Egg inside an oak branch.
11 Aug 2017.
Buckingham Springs, Bucks Co, PA.
Found on a cultivated Zinnia on the patio.
West DuPage Woods: warming quickly to a fairly hot afternoon. Intense choruses of cassinii with a background of septendecim (most notable in forest areas with mature trees). Choruses peaked at 101.8 dB at the prairie margins. A fair number of cassinii had some degree of orange on the sternite margins; no decula were heard, but lots of cassinii ticking and various phases of courtship calls.
A poor connection between my shotgun mic and phone disrupted a few of the recordings.
This observation is for the Blue Jay.
A bird (juvenile grackle?) hit the front window. A few minutes later, a Blue Jay had arrived and was busy plucking the feathers off the back of the bird. After plucking most of the feathers away, it pecked through the back (last photo) and made several trips back and forth to carry away meat. Later it apparently managed to flip the bird over and pecked through the abdomen under the rib cage, leaving a large hole in the abdomen. It removed the intestines but ate most of the other organs. The rest of the dead bird then disappeared overnight.
Se observa ejemplar adulto y dos cachorros
Radnor Lake State Park.
It is either this Magicicada cassinii or Magicicada tredecassini. Given location and also the sound recordings themselves, I think this is M. cassinii. There was, from what I could tell, only one individual. I was able to see it fly a couple of times, just within the same tree canopy. I am presuming that it is a hitchhiker. It is in an urban parking lot and the habitat is quite bad. It is hanging out in a European elm of some kind (I would probably call it Ulmus glabra) and there are only two trees in the whole parking lot. I obscure my locations all the time, but if you are a cicada researcher and want the exact coordinates, please DM me!
Kishwauketoe Nature Conservancy
Very large population. All in the area appear to be M. septendecim, but I believe I heard an isolated pocket or two of M. cassini along Sunny Shade Rd.
Big foot beach state park
Big foot beach entrance. Note the last 2 pictures of one with peach eyes.
Large population of tredecassini in this park. Little or no Cicadas in surrouding areas
Blue eyed mutation! I retained it and allowed it to emerge inside.