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Title: Information Sheet, Dyke Marsh Wildlife Preserve, 11 August 2004
Arthropod Watching at DMWP
11 August 2004
1–3 p.m.
It was another great, sunny, cool day, with a gentle breeze off the Potomac River at DMWP.
Students (Cathy, Christi, Divya, Dan) and I looked for arthropods along Haul Road and the Bike Trail, searching primarily for ones on plants.
We saw many active arthropods.
I photograped a few of them.
Males of Southern Golden Skipper Butterflies (
Poanes zabulon)* pursued females.
A female Sachem Skipper Butterfly (
Atalopedes campestris)* sunned on leaves.
A dragonfly, with a light blue abdomen chomped, on its prey.
A large larva of a Black Swallowtail Butterfly (
Papilio polyxenes asterius)* rested on its food plant Queen Anns Lace (
Daucus carota).
Leaf-cutter bees (
Megachile sp.)* left cuts in leaves of a beggartick (
Desmodium sp.)* which was in full bloom.
A leaf-mining insect left a blotch mine in a leaf of Bearfoot (
Polymnia uvedalia)*.
Dun Skipper Butterflies (
Euphyes ruricola)*, and a small brown moth rested on foliage.
A large funnel-web spider nested on part of the boardwalk that Hurricane Isabel moved inland in September 2003.
An Red-banded Hairstreak (
Calycopis cecrops)* (with orange, rather than red bands) rested on a Porcelainberry leaf.
All in all, it was a day of much organism activity during the height of the summer of 2004.
To see many other organisms that I saw at DMWP on 7 September 2003, please use the keyword DMWP030907.
To see other DMWP organisms, please use keyword DMWP.
* = an organism with one or more images on this Website.
Many of those images are from DMWP.
E. M. B. (2004)
Please, click on images to enlarge them.
Figure 1.
Sailboats returning to the Marina.
Figure 2.
A marshy area on the south side of Haul Road.
Figures 35.
A male Southern Golden Skipper Butterfly (
Poanes zabulon)* pursuing a female.
The male is behind the female which is darker than he is.
Figure 6.
The same pair.
Figure 7.
A second pair of Southern Golden Skipper Butterflies (
Poanes zabulon)*.
Figure 8.
The same pair.
Figure 9.
A female Sachem Skipper Butterfly (
Atalopedes campestris)* sunning on a leaf.
Figure 10.
An old dragonfly with a light blue abdomen and tattered wings chomped on its prey.
Figures 1113.
A large larva of a Black Swallowtail Butterfly
Papilio polyxenes asterius* resting on its food plant Queen Anns Lace (
Daucus carota)*.
Figures 1415.
Leaf-cutter bees (
Megachile sp.)* left cuts in leaves of a beggartick (
Desmodium sp.)* which was in full bloom.
Figure 16.
The same plant.
Figure 17.
A leaf-mining insect left a blotch mine in a leaf of Bearfoot (
Polymnia uvedalia)*.
Figure 18.
A Dun Skipper Butterfly (
Euphyes ruricola)* resting on a Porcelainberry leaf.
Figure 19.
A Dun Skipper Butterfly (
Euphyes ruricola)* resting on a Dogwood leaf.
Figure 20.
A large funnel-web spider in its nest on part of the boardwalk that Hurricane Isabel moved inland in September 2003.
Figure 21.
A Red-banded Hairstreak (
Calycopis cecrops)* resting on a Porcelainberry leaf.
Figures 22–23.
A small moth resting on a Porcelainberry leaf
Figures 24–25.
Christi looking for ichneumon wasps.
Figures 25–26.
Cathy looking for noctuid moths.
Figures 27–28.
The Cracked-cup Polypore (
Phellinus rimosus (Berk.) Pil.) grew on a large Black Locust tree in the Marina.
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