2022 ASIW Day 4 – June 16
On day 4 of Art and Science in the Woods, I visited the Draw and Sculpt class in the morning and the Coyote Games class in the afternoon. As I did for previous days this week, I spent roughly 2 hours with each class. We searched for insects by walking the paths near the Sun Foundation, sweeping and beating vegetation and observing insects in flight and on plants. I separated the insects observed for each class below.
Insect taxa encountered – Draw and Sculpt Class
This list of insect taxa observed is arranged alphabetically by order and family within each order. These are the families of insects we observed during this class. Each link will take you to a page explaining more about that group of insects.
Totals for the morning – 7 orders, 29 families of insects. As mentioned on prior days, this list does not include non-insect arthropods we observed (such as spiders, ticks, centipedes, millipedes and their relatives).
Order Coleoptera (beetles)
- Family Buprestidae
- Family Carabidae
- Family Chrysomelidae
- Family Cicindelidae
- Family Curculionidae
- Family Staphylinidae
Order Diptera (flies)
- Family Agromyzidae
- Family Culicidae
- Family Dolichopodidae
- Fammily Mydidae
- Family Simuliidae
- Family Syrphidae
- Family Tachinidae
Order Hemiptera (true bugs)
- Family Anthocoridae
- Family Aradidae
- Family Membracidae
- Family Miridae
- Family Psyllidae
- Family Reduviidae
- Family Scutelleridae
Order Hymenoptera (ants, bees, wasps)
- Family Formicidae
- Family Ichneumonidae
Order Lepidoptera (butterflies, moths, skippers)
- Family Geometridae
- Family Lycaenidae
- Family Nymphalidae
- Family Pterophoridae
Order Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies)
- Family Aeschnidae
- Family Calopterygidae
Order Orthoptera (grasshoppers and crickets)
- Family Gryllidae
Insect taxa encountered – Coyote Games Class
This list of insect taxa observed is arranged alphabetically by order and family within each order. These are the families of insects we observed during this class. Each link will take you to a page explaining more about that group of insects.
Totals for the afternoon – 7 orders, 27 families of insects. As mentioned on prior days, this list does not include non-insect arthropods we observed (such as spiders, ticks, centipedes, millipedes and their relatives).
Order Coleoptera (beetles)
- Family Cantharidae
- Family Cerambycidae
- Family Chrysomelidae
- Family Curculionidae
- Family Lampyridae
- Family Lycidae
Order Diptera (flies)
- Family Agromyzidae
- Family Cecidomyiidae
- Family Syrphidae
- Family Tabanidae
Order Hemiptera (true bugs)
- Family Anthocoridae
- Family Blissidae
- Family Cercopidae
- Family Cicadellidae
- Family Membracidae
- Family Miridae
- Family Nabidae
- Family Scutelleridae
Order Hymenoptera (ants, bees, wasps)
- Family Apidae
- Family Formicidae
- Family Halictidae
Order Lepidoptera (butterflies, moths, skippers)
- Family Erebidae
- Family Geometridae
- Family Nymphalidae
Order Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies)
- Family Gomphidae
Order Orthoptera (grasshoppers and crickets)
- Family Tettigoniidae
- Family Trigoniidae