Country: USA
State/District: MI
County: Manistee
Date (D-M-Y): 7 - 2003

Photographer: E. M. Barrows

Identifier: E. M. Barrows
Collector: not applicable
Location: Manistee National Forest
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Keywords: A FEnp fern
Additional Information:

The mornings of 16 and 17 July 2003 were beautiful in the Manistee National Forest, Michigan.   Direct sun hit the ground and foliage (often Bracken Ferns).   Many kinds of insects sunned before becoming active for the day.   My nephew and I watched and photographed the insects.   Assassin flies, Banded Hairstreaks, a Dun Skipper, grasshoppers, and a White Admiral sunned on Bracken Ferns.   An American Painted Lady, Atlantis Fritillaries, and banded-wing locusts sunned on the ground.   The Hairstreaks lay on their sides at first, warmed, and sat up vertically after they were very warm.   Then male Hairstreaks chased one another.   One Atlantis Fritillary sipped juices from an insect killed by colliding with a truck headlight.   You can call up all pages on insect sunning on these days with “keyword:” Manistee sunning.

E. M. B. (October 2003)

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Figure 1.   My nephew watching insect sunning.

Figure 2.   An immature grasshopper sunning on Bracken Fern.

Figure 3.   A robber fly sunning on Bracken Fern.

Figure 4.   A robber fly sunning on Bracken Fern.

Figure 5.   A Dun Skipper sunning on Bracken Fern.



Figure 6.   My nephew watching insect sunning.

Figure 7.   A White Admiral sunning on Bracken Fern.

Figure 8.   A White Admiral sunning on Bracken Fern.

Figure 9.   A White Admiral sunning on Bracken Fern.

Figure 10.   A White Admiral sunning on Bracken Fern.





Figure 11.   A Banded Hairstreak sunning on Bracken Fern.

Figure 12.   A Banded Hairstreak sunning on Bracken Fern.

Figure 13.   A Banded Hairstreak sunning on Bracken Fern.

Figure 14.   A Banded Hairstreak sunning on Bracken Fern.

Figure 15.   My nephew watching insect sunning.



Figure 16.   A Banded Hairstreak sunning on Bracken Fern.

Figure 17.   An Atlantis Fritillary sunning on a flower.

Figure 18.   An Atlantis Fritillary sunning on the ground.

Figure 19.   An Atlantis Fritillary sunning on the ground.

Figure 20.   An Atlantis Fritillary imbibing juice from a dead insect.



Figure 20.   Braconid wasp cocoons on a Bracken Fern leaf.   This group of braconids might have fed on the same caterpillar; for example, a Forest Tent Caterpillar.

Figure 21.   Braconid wasp cocoons on a Bracken Fern leaf.