Start of Summer Bugs

I spent today poking around a few areas mostly in northern Middlesex county, mostly looking for bugs. Some highlights below:

Morning Snack

Lancet Clubtail with Slender Spreadwing snack

Robber

Presumed Laphria sp Robber Fly, also with snack.

Elegant

Elegant Spreadwing

Buckeye

Common Buckeye (1 of 4!)

Brook

Brook Snaketail, the main highlight of the day, waiting for confirmation on some of the details but likely the northeasternmost for Mass. Also thought that spot should have a snaketail. Update: confirmed as first for the Merrimack watershed in MA.

Moustached

Moustached Clubtail

Moustached

Why it’s named

Also American Kestrel and a chickadee nest I could peer into, a very nice day.