2021 ASIW Day 2 – July 20
I was only able to spend time with the morning class today (their focus was on the Monarch butterfly). Although my time at the Sun Foundation this day was limited, we managed to observe a number of insects.
Insect taxa encountered
As I did yesterday, the taxa we encountered are arranged alphabetically by order, then alphabetically by family within each order). This is what we observed. Links to more information will open in a new browser window/ tab.
All together, we encountered 7 orders / 29 families of insects in a few hours.
Order Coleoptera (beetles)
- Family Chrysomelidae
- Family Dytiscidae
- Family Elateridae
- Family Haliplidae
- Family Lycidae
Order Diptera (flies)
- Family Bombyliidae
- Family Culicidae
Order Hemiptera (true bugs)
- Family Anthocoridae
- Family Blissidae
- Family Cicadellidae
- Family Cicadidae
- Family Coreidae
- Family Fulgoridae
- Family Gerridae
- Family Lygaeidae
- Family Membracidae
Order Hymenoptera (ants, bees, and wasps)
- Family Braconidae
- Family Formicidae
- Family Halictidae
Order Lepidoptera (butterflies, moths, and skippers)
- Family Hesperiidae
- Family Nymphalidae
- Family Papilionidae
- Family Pieridae
Order Mantodea
- Family Mantidae
Order Odonata
- Family Coenagrionidae
- Family Libellulidae
Order Orthoptera (grasshoppers and relatives)
- Family Acrididae
- Family Gryllidae
- Family Tettigoniidae