{"id":6407,"date":"2013-05-30T15:11:17","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T22:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/?p=6407"},"modified":"2013-06-01T10:17:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T17:17:22","slug":"flying-insect-surveys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/flying-insect-surveys\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying Insect Surveys"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"UnidentifiedCurrently, the McDowell Sonoran Conservancy’s Field Institute<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is conducting surveys of ALL LIFE in the Preserve. These surveys will continue for the next few years and I’m so happy to be a part of them! My very favorites of these surveys are Flora, Flying Insects, Birds and Herps. With the exception of Flora (which I collect and document), my primary goal on the surveys is to photograph the outings. I then donate the images to the Conservancy for use on their website and\/or printed material.\u00a0 A bonus for me is the education I’m receiving. Love it!<\/p>\n

Below are photos from our most recent flying insect<\/strong> survey. Sorry for all the “unidentified”. Our experts are really busy. I must purchase bug books!<\/p>\n

\"Fraesfield<\/a>

Fraesfield Tank. A tank is a man made reservoir for watering cattle (created in the 1950s ranching days of Scottsdale). Although there is rarely much water in it, it does stay somewhat damp most of the year.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Michael<\/a>

Michael Shillingburg of the Nico Franz Lab at ASU photographing a tiny butterfly<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Checkered-Skipper\"<\/a>

This common Checkered-Skipper is what Michael was photographing in the previous image.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Male<\/a>

The grasses were teaming with male Checkered White Butterflies.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Female<\/a>

Female Checkered White Butterfly<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Coyote<\/a>

Sometimes Survey’s intersect such as finding this blooming Coyote Gourd. We had collected the plant but also needed the flower and fruit!<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Tiny<\/a>

Unidentified Tiny orange Grasshopper.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Queen<\/a>

We saw several Queen Butterflies but there was no Milkweed so they must have been nectaring.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Western<\/a>

The Western Pygmy Blue is one of the smallest butterflies in the world!<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Reakirt's<\/a>

Reakirt’s Blue Butterfly. Like most Blues, they rarely open their wings.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Unidentified<\/a>

Unidentified Stink Bug<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Unidentified<\/a>

Unidentified Assassin Bug<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Empress<\/a>

Empress Leilia Butterfly getting minerals from the wet ground<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"American<\/a>

American Snout getting minerals from the wet ground<\/p><\/div>\n

For more survey photos from April and May, CLICK HERE<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. (It’s a large gallery so give images time to load).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Currently, the McDowell Sonoran Conservancy’s Field Institute is conducting surveys of ALL LIFE in the Preserve. These surveys will continue for the next few years and I’m so happy to be a part of them! My very favorites of these surveys are Flora, Flying Insects, Birds and Herps. With the exception of Flora (which I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,155,29,28,553,52,953,58,804,57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6407"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6407"}],"version-history":[{"count":68,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6498,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6407\/revisions\/6498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}