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On, V. riparia

On Rhus aromatica. Could not find any chasmothecia. Mostly on the upper leaf surface, especially on new growth, where it seemed to cause stunting and distortion.

Abdomen and mesosoma covered in pale hairs .

On Circaea canadensis

A cute weevil on Oenothera biennis.

This weevil feeds on the leaves of Oenothera biennis.

This critter was dangling from a silk strand in the woods. Alive, soft and squishy. A moth larvae of some sort?

Two raccoons talking after one of them noticed me. They scurried up the tree.

Narrowly lobed leaves. A graceful plant with a nodding cluster of pale yellow flowers at the tip of the stem. Leaves and stem glabrous. Growing on a roadside, alongside Erigeron annuus

Spotted, glaucous stems

Blotch leafmines on Circaea canadensis.

Here is a beautiful blog post by @ceiseman:
https://bugtracks.wordpress.com/tag/mompha-terminella/

On a Quercus rubra snag

Taste slightly bitter

Larva On a Tulip tree

On the underside of Ulmus americana leaf

https://bugguide.net/node/view/50672/bgpage

Striped legs. Black spots on each wing.

On a young Tulip tree trunk

Proximal part of antennae darker than the rest of the antennae .

https://bugguide.net/node/view/245325

On the walkway by the river

A beautiful beetle with burgundy antennae, burgundy proboscis, black thorax, yellowish elytra with black spots and a burgundy line down the middle. On a large fallen White oak (Quercus alba)

raiding a colony, huge group

A tiny wasp ovipositing on a dead Box elder (Acer negundo) twig, next to a fungus Rhytidhyseron rufulum. About 3 mm long and 1-1.5 mm wide.

Mama and babies

Gray and pink moth. On Black locust trunk.

There was some Witch-hazel nearby

On Houttuynia cordata (Chameleon plant)

In a dried out vernal pool

Important food source for Sora during their spring migration
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carex_tribuloides

At the base of Populus grandidentata

Spotted on a New York Mycological Society mushroom walk by another member

In bloom

On American hornbeam

This observation is about the dark scale insects being tended to by Crematogaster sp ants . On a young American elm.

For ants see:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/220686160

Two youngsters

On Eucalyptus

Goose - like calls made by the frogs can be heard