VES News - Fall 2010 - Vermont Entomological Society

VES N 

VES NEWS 

The Newsletter of the Vermont Entomological Society 

Number 69 

Fall 2010 

On the web at www.VermontInsects.org

VES Officers 

Michael Sabourin 

Warren Kiel 

Trish Hanson 

Steve Trombulak 

Rachael Griggs 

Bryan Pfeiffer 

Emeritus Members 

Joyce Bell 

Ross Bell 

John Grehan 

Gordon Nielsen 

Michael Sabourin 

Mark Waskow 

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The Newsletter of the 

Vermont Entomological Society 

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The Vermont Entomological Society is 

devoted to the study, conservation, and 

appreciation of invertebrates. Founded in 1993, 

VES sponsors selected research, workshops 

and field trips for the public, including children. 

Our quarterly newsletter features developments 

in entomology, accounts of insect events and 

field trips, as well as general contributions from 

members or other entomologists. 

VES is open to anyone interested in 

arthropods. Our members range from casual 

insect watchers to amateur and professional 

entomologists. We welcome members of all 

ages, abilities and interests. 

You can join VES by sending dues of $15 per 

year to: 

Steve Trombulak, VES Treasurer 

Department of Biology 

Middlebury College 

Middlebury, VT 05753 

Contents 

Number 69 ♦ Fall 2010 

DEPARTMENTS 

Member Profile: Susan Sawyer Page 3 

Flea Market Page 4 

Field Notes 

♦ Black Swallowtail Pupation Page 4 

By H. Peter Wimmer 

♦ Garage Bugs Page 7 

By Kent McFarland 

Poet’s Corner 

♦ Habitat Page 8 

By Laurie DiCesare 

Feature: VES Field Trip to the Silvio Conte 

National Wildlife Refuge 

By Donald H. Miller and Michael Sabourin Page 5 

Book Review 

♦ Mariposa Road by Bob Pyle Page 10 


Newsletter Schedule 

Spring: Deadline April 7 - Publication May 1 

Summer: Deadline July 7 - Publication August 1 

Fall: Deadline October 7 - Publication November 1 

Winter: Deadline January 7 - Publication February 1 

Cover Photos: 

Kent McFarland photographed these Boxelder 

Bugs, Boisea trivittata, this fall at his home. 

Back Page Photo: 

Drawing by Susan Sawyer of the Red Milkweed 

Beetle, Tetraopes tetrophthalmus. 

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Thanks! 

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VES News - Fall 2010

Member Profile 

SUSAN SAWYER—ARTIST AND TEACHER 

By Susan Sawyer 

he first insects to make a big impression on me weren't 

really there – they were the creepy, hump-backed 

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exoskeletons of cicadas, left clinging to the bark of the 

huge elm trees that lined and met over the street in the 

little Iowa town I grew up in. I loved their clear amber 

eye-coverings and their fantastically armed front legs. In 

the summers in Vermont, there were aquatic insects to 

watch in the pond, and the occasional bumper crop of 

grasshoppers, which we valued for their excellence as bait 

for smallmouth bass. I liked cleaning fish, too, because it 

was interesting to open their stomachs and look at what 

they'd been eating. 

I decided early on that I wasn't going 

to give up either of my main interests, 

art or the study of nature, no 

matter who told me I had to if I 

wanted to have a successful career in 

the other field. They were probably 

right, but I was stubborn. I eventually 

earned a degree from New College 

in Florida in my made-up major, 

Graphics and Natural History, 

which consisted of drawing, printmaking, 

field ecology and botany. 

While I was there I studied aquatic 

birds, the plants of Florida, mangroves, 

and hermit crabs but not insects, 

somehow. The huge palmetto 

bugs in the cupboards were memorable 

(they ate bubble gum! and raw 

onions!) 

Settling in the family's tumbledown farmhouse near 

South Woodbury, I spent ten years working on farms – 

picking apples, pruning orchards, milking cows, looking 

after a beef herd, helping my stepfather with the haying, 

growing food for my household, and surviving; I kept 

making art, and got serious about quilt making as an art 

form. I married and had children, and when the oldest 

started first grade I started volunteering in the ELF 

(Environmental Learning for the Future) program at 

Woodbury School. Teaching the workshops on insect 

anatomy and life cycles, galls, rotting logs, and stream 

and pond invertebrates gave me a solid grounding in entomology 

for beginners, and over the years I've seen 

many interesting insects. You get to see a lot when you go 

out with dozens of short, sharp-eyed bug hunters. 

I started working for VINS (Vermont Institute of Natural 

Science) as an ELF trainer in 1993, after finishing a Master 

of Fine Arts degree in visual art at Vermont College. I 

worked for VINS for 13 years – ten at the North Branch 

Nature Center in Montpelier; I also did many illustrations 

for various publications, and helped teach middle schoolers 

about vernal pools, river ecology, and other subjects. 

Working for VINS and belonging to the Guild of Natural 

Science Illustrators gave me many opportunities to learn 

about insects and illustrating them, from those in vernal 

pools, to special groups like fireflies, dragonflies, and butterflies. 

I've been lucky to get to meet many entomologists 

and insectophiles, and am grateful for my non-formal insect 

education. I don't know much, 

but I know people who do. 

These days I teach for the Four 

Winds Nature Institute and in Union 

Institute & University's undergraduate 

program, and I squeeze in 

some freelance work. I often get to 

visit classrooms to teach about 

learning and drawing from nature. 

Insects are a favorite subject of 

study! They are everywhere, and 

can be quite bizarre and remarkable, 

as well as vitally important in 

almost any ecosystem. They are intimately 

linked to the world of 

plants in many ways. They present 

challenges: tiny, strange, and a little 

scary for some. If you're going to 

draw them, you have to figure out 

how to make them slow down (or 

look alive, if they're dead already). 

When drawing an insect from above, you have to be rigorous 

about symmetry. Other animals are usually depicted 

from angles that make them easier to draw. The 

digital camera, a decent dissecting scope, and friends with 

collections have helped greatly in my efforts to draw insects 

and other arthropods. I spend more time with plants 

than bugs these days, but I have some insect projects in 

mind and hope to get to do them. And I would like to 

know where the woolly bears are going, and what the 

whirligig beetles are doing. 

(Editor’s Note: One of Susan’s exquisite drawings appears 

on the back cover of this issue.) 

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Field Notes 

BLACK SWALLOWTAIL PUPATION 

By H. Peter Wimmer 

hese photos of a black swallowtail pupation were 

T taken September 23 and 24 by Deb Catherman of 

Proctor on her horse training operation. The caterpillar 

pupated on a cedar fence post about 4 -5 inches above the 

ground. 

Deb used a Canon Powershot A-1100 in the autofocus 

macro mode. The camera does everything except 

frame the photo. I think this speaks well for this model of 

camera which is about the size of a pack of king-size cigarettes 

and can be purchased for only slightly more than 

$100. 

VES Flea Market 

Do you fancy spiders? Check out Rod Crawford’s Spider 

Myths Web Site and Spider Collector's Journal. 

http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/spidermyt 

h/index.html and 

http://crawford.tardigrade.net/journal/ 

Here’s a new butterfly link from Kent McFarland: 

http://butterfliesofamerica.com/intro.htm 

Housemate for Milton Farmhouse: Amiable, eco-friendly 

housemate desired to share renovated farmhouse with 

naturalist / writer (with special interest in edible/medicinal 

plants and dragonflies!) and peoplefriendly 

dog, Rosie. Quiet, country setting yet near shopping. 

1.4 acres includes organic flower and vegetable gardens, 

frogpond, sugarhouse, barn and walking paths. 

One bedroom, $475 a month (utilities and possibly DISH 

included.) Up to $75 a month work exchange possible. 

Call Laurie at 802-893-1845 or e-mail Nature- 

Haven8@Hughes.net. 

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VES FIELD TRIP TO THE SILVIO 

CONTE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE 

by Donald H. Miller 

and Michael Sabourin 

n July 31st, seven members of the Vermont Entomological 

Society (VES) journeyed to the Silvio Conte 

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National Wildlife Refuge located in the Northeast Kingdom 

(NEK) town of Bloomfield. 

The remains of a Black Vine Weevil, Otiorhynchus sulcatus, 

likely dismembered by ants was found. It reminded us of 

a miniature hairy tank. At first we didn’t have a clue what 

it was until Ross Bell and Don Chandler said that it was a 

weevil. 

Diptera (flies): 

Five species were 

determined by D. 

Miller and M. 

Sabourin at least 

to genus. The 

Tephritidae, Eutreta 

noveboracensis, 

is a very 

beautiful fly that 

makes the house 

fly look pedestrian. 

Hover flies, 

Remains of a black vine weevil 

(Syrphidae) are sometimes mimics of bees and wasps. 

The mimicry didn’t work for one wasp-looking specimen, 

Sericomyia chrysotoxoides, which was discovered in 

the clutches of a crab spider. 

The day itself was middling as far as invertebrates (it 

could have been warmer), but that is not to say we didn't 

have a good time. About three hours of the cool, sunny 

afternoon were spent surveying three sites at the refuge: 

1) a bridge over a stream along Stone Dam Rd, 2) walking 

along Peanut Rd., and 3) vicinity of Mollie Beattie Bog. 

Most of the time was spent at the latter two localities. Not 

enough time obviously for a more comprehensive review 

of the refuge's available habitats. 

Forty-five species were at least identified to genus level. 

Coleoptera (beetles): Seven species were determined by 

Don Miller at least to genus. Obera affinis, a long-horned 

beetle, had never been collected before in the NEK by 

Don Miller. We almost discarded the beetle thinking it 

was something else. Debbie Kiel retrieved it and a closer 

“lab” look revealed that it wasn’t what we had originally 

thought (in the field). Motto with insects is don’t be too 

quick with an identification (ID) even if you think it’s a 

common species. If in doubt, take a voucher specimen or 

have available a very good digital image, although the 

latter are sometimes insufficient to make a final determination 

with some of the real difficult taxa. 

Homoptera 

(true bugs): 

One leafhopper 

species was 

identified by 

M. Sabourin . 

A number of 

other undetermined 

froghoppers 

and 

tree-hoppers 

were seen. 

Hymenoptera One of the flies observed at the site 

(bees and 

wasps): One Northern Aerial Yellowjacket, Dolichovespula 

norvegicoides, was identified to species by M. Sabourin. 

Another very small braconid-like wasp was seen and released 

to do its duty as a parasitoid. Scott Griggs later that 

day identified Bembix americana at the Brighton airfield. 

D. norvegicoides was the only insect collected that is 

known to be a boreal species. Its behavior is what first got 

our attention. It was noticed along Peanut Rd. palpating 

(Continued on page 6) 

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SILVIO CONTE TRIP 

the sand and was swept up in hope that this “black and 

yellowish” wasp might have been Cerceris fumipennis, the 

emerald ash borer wasp. 

that day. 

Fourteen species of microlepidoptera were determined 

by Mike Sabourin. “Micros” are the little moths that constantly 

fly up when walking through a field in “broad 

daylight”. Many fly up and then land on the lower side of 

a leaf, making them quite difficult to photograph much 

less very frustrating to collect. M. Sabourin notes that a 

character trait for identifying tortricid moths, his specialty, 

is that they do not land on the underside of leaves when 

settling, but rather the upper side. 

Speyeria atlantis, Mountain or Atlantic Fritillary, is one of 

three species of Speyeris in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont 

and the one least well known. 

Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths): Six species of macrolepidoptera 

were determined by D. Miller at least to 

genus. Colias philodice, Clouded Sulfur , and Speyeria atlantis, 

Atlantis Fritillary, were common throughout the 

day. One Speryia cybele, Great Spangled-Fritillary, was 

observed from vehicle by keen-eyed Scott Griggs. 

Several individuals 

of 

Vanessa virginiensis, 

American 

Lady, and Polygonia 

?faunus, 

Green Comma, 

were seen. Unfortunately 

we 

never netted 

any commas to 

Speryia cybele, Great Spangled Fritillary be sure of identification. 

Of 

the three species of Polygonia likely to occur in the NEK, 

P. faunus tends to be more prevalent. Commas, like the 

well-known Mourning Cloak, overwinter as adults. 

A noctuid macromoth identified to species was Caenurgina 

erechtea, Forage Looper Moth, with several being seen 

Some “micros” larvae make distinct patterns in leaves of 

plants caused by the feeding of the larvae in tunnels 

within the leaf. These feeding tunnels are often speciesspecific 

in terms of the pattern that is formed. Very little is 

known about the biology of many non-pest microlepidoptera 

species. 

An individual has to have patience to work with microlepidotera. 

Many specimens require very exacting preparations 

of genitalia before a definitive determination can 

be made. Most lepidopterists avoid the “micros” like the 

plague, and just label them “unidentified (UID) micros”; 

akin to calling all Orthoptera grasshoppers or crickets. M. 

Sabourin and Warren Kiel are considered masters at 

mounting microlepidotera; D. Miller gave up years ago. 

The micro moths encountered at the refuge were not noteworthy 

from a boreal perspective. Of note though is that 

some have definitive host plants; Olethreutes valdana, and 

Evora hemidesma are known from Spirea, Aethes biscana 

from Solidago (goldenrod) and the undescribed Olethreutes 

sp. from Rubus (blackberry). Dichrorampha bittana’s host 

plant is unknown; a couple of individuals were collected 

in a blackberry patch at the bog stop, but blackberry is 

unlikely the species foodplant. Two of the moths, the 

choreutid, Tebenna onustana, and the undescribed 

Olethreutes species are species that are generally collected 

during the day and not at light. 

Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies): Three species of 

dragonflies (Anisoptera) were determined by D. Miller to 

at least genus. Sympetrum ?internum or S. janae , as well as 

several other unidentified meadowhawks, were seen. A 

Ski-tailed emerald, Somatochlora elongata, was netted 

along Peanut Rd. In D. Miller’s experience this is one of 

the more common emeralds in the northeast kingdom 

area. A very nice insect! 

At the parking lot adjacent to Mollie Beattie Bog, Odonates 

flitted about. The fast flying darners and emeralds 

seemed to enjoy teasing us in our efforts to net them; so 

near yet so high! Thus a number of dragonflies were seen 

but not identified. Perhaps if we were more facile with 

our nets we would have caught more. Only one darner, 

Aeshna interrupta, Variable darner,was netted, identified 

(Continued on page 9) 

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Field Notes 

I 

Garage Bugs 


discovered a new bug in my yard this week, the 

Box Elder Bug (Boisea trivittata), also known as the 

Garage Bug. And for 

my yard, that is the 

perfect name. I found 

them on my garage. 

The evening light was 

striking our small 

garage as I pulled into 

the driveway. It was 

painted red when I 

first bought the place, 

but that was years ago. 

Now it is painted 

“muddy waters”, one 

of those fancy paint 

company names for 

light brown. As I put 

the car in park I saw 

huge patches of red on 

the side of the garage 

and I exclaimed with 

dread to my wife, “I 

can’t believe that paint 

is peeling so badly.” 

She replied, “Honey, I 

wanted to show you 

that. That isn’t paint. 

Those are bugs!” 

Thousands of bugs I 

might add, maybe tens 

of thousands, coating 

the side of the garage 

soaking up the setting 

sun. 

Now this was a whole 

lot better than pealing 

paint. I leapt out of the 

car to take a closer look. The nymphs had bright red 

bodies. The older individuals had black backs and 

the adults were mostly black with red edges and red 

eyes. Simply put, they were beautiful. The adults 

and nymphs of varying stages jostled for position. I 

ran for my camera to capture some close ups to aid 

in later identification. 

Box Elder Bugs feed on, you guessed it, Box Elder 

(Acer negundo) leaves and other soft tissues. And I 

have one growing right next to my garage. That 

made sense. But 

why are they also 

called garage 

bugs? 

Surely not all 

garages have a 

Box Elder next to 

them. Actually, 

this refers to their 

habit of massing 

in the fall before 

finding a place to 

winter in a crack, 

hole or a garage. 

In fact, some 

consider them a 

pest because they 

can winter by the 

thousands in 

outbuildings, 

garages and even 

your house. 

But, they are 

harmless. They 

don’t bite, they 

don’t eat anything 

and they don’t 

make any noises. 

They just sit there 

all winter long 

waiting for 

spring, unless of 

course your 

heating system 

warms them up 

and makes them 

think it is spring. 

People just don’t like bugs, especially moving 

around inside their buildings. But to me, these are 

simply a work of art. 

Box Elder Bug (Boisea trivittata) 

VES News - Fall 2010 Page 7

Poet’s Corner 

With boxes still unpacked 

In her new home, 

She made her way 

To the local hardware store. 

Habitat 

By Laurie DiCesare 

Pointing to the long-handled lightbulb changer, 

Suspended high above her head, she declared: 

“I’d like that one, please.” 

The obliging saleswoman 

Secured a stepladder 

And retrieved the desired implement. 

As the tip of the tool 

Came into view, 

Both women stood still, 

Staring at the attachment. 

Five jointed legs still clung 

To one of the metal prongs, 

But the sixth 

Remained outstretched 

As if reaching 

For a passing mosquito – 

A final snack before retiring. 

She paid the saleswoman 

For the bulb changer, 

And gently carried 

Her newfound treasure home 

In a small, cardboard box. 

Later that afternoon, 

As she stopped to watch dappled sunlight 

Swaying across the living room, 

She noticed a sunbeam 

Highlighting transparent wings. 

A perfectly-preserved dragonfly, 

More than two inches long, 

From mandibles to ovipositor, 

Perched on the claw-like gripper 

With delicate wings outstretched, 

Prepared for flight. 

She smiled at the Fawn Darner 

Illuminated on the bookcase; 

A symbol of transformation 

And a bright new beginning. 

September 9, 2010 

A puff of breath 

On the dark brown thorax 

Revealed two pale-yellow spots, 

Like small gold nuggets 

Shining among sand grains 

In a prospector’s swirling pan. 

The insect’s multifaceted eyes, 

Which once deftly perused 

Shaded, rippling streams 

And prime egglaying sites 

On the lee shore of some windswept lake, 

Were faded now 

But still decidedly green. 

Fawn darner, Boyeria vinosa 

Bonnie Pease 

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(Continued from page 6) 

More on the SILVIO CONTE TRIP 

for both being absolutely wingless, look like two completely 

different species; always a nice grasshopper to see. 

Long-horned Grasshoppers and kin collected were 

Merioptera roeselii, Roesel’s Cricket, which has been introduced 

fairly recently and therefore not mentioned in 

some of the older field books and Concephalus fasciatus, 

Slender Meadow Cricket, undoubtedly the most common 

of the genus in area. 

Terminal segments of Ski-tailed emerald, Somatochlora elongata 

and promptly released. No damselflies (Zygoptera) were 

noted for the day. 

Orthoptera (grasshoppers and crickets): Seven species of 

grasshoppers were determined by D. Miller at least to 

genus. Short-horned Grasshoppers collected were the 

common, big, and juicy Melanoplus bivittatus, Two-striped 

Grasshopper, and the very common M. curtipennis, 

Marsh Meadow Grasshopper; other Melanoplus were seen 

but not collected. 

This list of insects is rudimentary and only represents taxa 

noted that day. It gives an example of how many species 

can be recorded by a group of "amateurs" in a couple of 

hours without really doing much collecting. Likely a couple 

thousand species of insects could be discovered at the 

refuge with extensive field work. 

The records for microlepidoptera are probably a significant 

contribution to the insect records for the Refuge. In 

general, little is published of insect groups and other invertebrates 

in the Refuge and nearby areas. There is no 

known list of insects for the region that reflects the efforts 

of researchers, amateur and professional, over time. 

Don H. Miller has tramped over much of the region for 

about 50 years, recording a variety of groups of insects 

and did a funded butterfly and odonate survey for The 

Nature Conservancy (TNC) a couple of years ago; that 

manuscript is on file at the Refuge office. Scott Griggs of 

Grand Isle and M. Sabourin have collected lepidoptera in 

the area as undoubtedly have an array of other amateur 

and professional entomologists. The late Gordon Nielsen 

was known to regularly collect tabanids in the Moose Bog 

area and Dr. Ross Bell has collected carabids in the same 

area. The scattered records of past researchers, amateur 

and professionals, is in great need of consolidation. 

Likewise a great deal more field work needs to be 

done, in view of the need for baseline data about insects 

for management purposes. 

Most of the voucher specimens collected represented micro-moths 

and are in the M. Sabourin collection. A number 

of digital images were taken by D. Miller. 

Laurie DiCesare, Scott and Rachel Griggs, Warren and 

Deb Kiel, Don Miller, and Michael Sabourin were the 

VES participants for the day. 

Green form of Melanoplus bivittatus 

A specimen of Booneacris g. glacialis, Wingless grasshopper, 

was collected. This is the only completely wingless 

grasshopper in Vermont. The males and females except 

Our sincere thanks to the refuge manager, Mark Maghini, 

and his staff for their hospitality and granting permission 

to collect specimens. We thank Ross Bell, Don Chandler, 

and Dan Hansen for assistance with identifications. 

The list of insects recorded during this excursion is presented 

on page 11. 


Book Review 


oted lepidopterist and author, Robert Michael Pyle, 

N kicked off the Vermont Butterfly Survey in 2002 

with an evening lecture and helped us with the survey for 

a few days. Now, our friend has written a new travelogue 

aptly titled, Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year, 

which chronicles his 2008 attempt to see as many 

butterflies as he could in one year. 

The book is full of 

tales of lost and 

found landscapes, 

fascinating natural 

history, and 

interesting 

characters as the 

reader follows Bob 

on his quest to see 

as many of the 800 

(or so) American 

butterflies as he 

can find. 

Like his account of 

following 

migrating 

monarchs 

southward in 

Chasing Monarchs 

(2001), Mariposa 

Road recounts his 

adventures, high 

and low, in tracking down butterflies on his terms – no 

internet, no GPS, no camera, no endless airfares. He 

simply takes off with his old friend Marsha, a 

cottonwood-limb butterfly net, stuffed into Powdermilk, 

his 1982 Honda Civic with 345,000 miles on the odometer 

and modified slightly so he could sleep in it; and a pair of 

compact Leitz binoculars he carried for more than thirty 

years. At the start, he envisioned his home in Washington 

State to be the center of a daisy and his trips like ray petals 

as he circled out across the continent and returned home 

from time to time. In fact each chapter is called a ray. 

fading fauna are all rich stories for the reader as we travel 

along. 

In the end Bob found 478 species (this could increase 

pending some taxonomic splitting in the works), raised 

over $46,000 dollars for the Xerces Society from pledges 

for his year long Butterfly-A-Thon, traveled 183 miles per 

species, saw 158 life butterflies and the stats go on and on. 

He found butterflies threatened by habitat loss, wildfires 

and prescribed fires, windshields, climate change and all 

the rest we can all list. But what Bob really found was 

perhaps the heart of the condition. On a ridgeline in 

southern California he wrote, “When I contemplated the 

sheer pulchritude of these diminutive hairstreaks I'd been 

hunting, versus the vanishingly small number of people 

who have ever beheld them, it seemed to me nothing less 

than tragic. All those people reveling down there in the 

hollow, pallid blandishments of the cities and the plain -- 

and this, right up here, unseen but by us. Well, it's just a 

particular of the general condition.” 

This book will surely warm your soul in front of the wood 

stove this Vermont winter as we wait with great 

anticipation of seeing all of friends in the spring yet again. 

From his home in Gray’s River where he finds his first 

butterfly of the year in his wood shed (California 

Tortoiseshell); to the California coastline in company with 

overwintering monarchs; to the northern tundra in 

pursuit of mysterious sulphurs and arctics; from the 

zebras and daggerwings of the Everglades to the 

leafwings, bluewings, and border rarities of the lower Rio 

Grande; and out to Kauai down to Key West, these 

intimate encounters with the land, its people, and its 

Bob Pyle with his first ever sighting of a Harris' 

Checkerspot while completing a census for the Vermont 

Butterfly Survey. Bob is the author of fourteen books, 

including Chasing Monarchs, Where Bigfoot Walks, and 

Wintergreen, which won the John Burroughs Medal. A 

Yale-trained ecologist and a Guggenheim fellow, founder 

of the Xerces Society in 1971 when he was just 24, he is 

now a full-time writer. Photo by Bryan Pfeiffer. 

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INSECTS OBSERVED AT SILVIO CONTE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE 

Insects are listed alphabetically by order and family. 

Coleoptera- 

Carabidae: 

Bembidion sp. 

Omphron americanum 

Nebria pallipes 

Cicindela punctulata 

Cicindela sp. 

Cerambycidae: 

Obera affinis 

Curculionidae: 

Otiorhynchus sulcatus 

Diptera- 

Syrphidae: 

Sericomyia chrysotoxoides 

Tabanidae: 

Hybomitra cincta 

Hybomitra ?arpadi 

Tachinidae: 

Hystricia abrupta 

? Panseria sp. 

Tephritidae: 

Eutreta noveboracensis 

Homoptera - 

Cicadellidae: 

Cuerna striata 

Hymenoptera - 

Braconidae: 

Braconidae sp. 

Vespidae: 

Dolichovespula norvegicoides 

Lepidoptera - 

macrolepidopterabutterfllies- 

Nymphalidae: 

Polygonia ?faunus 

Speyeria atlantis 

S. ?cybele 

Vanessa virginiensis 

Pieridae: 

Colias philodice 

moths- 

Noctuidae: 

Caenurgina erechtea 

microlepidoptera- 

Choreutidae: 

Tebenna onustana 

Crambidae: 

Anania fundebris glomeralis 

Crambus ?albellus 

C. perlella 

Neodactria zeellus 

Tortricidae: 

Aethes biscana 

Dichrorampha bittana 

Eucosma derelecta 

Evora hemidesma 

Hulda impudens 

Olethreutes bipartitana 

O. cespitana 

O. valdana 

Olethreutes new species. 

Odonata - 

Anisoptera - 

Aeshnidae: 

Aeshna interrupta 

Corduliidae: 

Somatochlora elongata 

Libellulidae: 

Sympetrum ?internum or janae 

Orthoptera - 

Acrididae: 

Booneacris g. glacialis 

Melanoplus bivittatus 

M. curtipennis 

Melanoplus spp. 

Tettigoniidae: 

Conocephalus fasciatus 

Metrioptera roeselii 


Vermont Entomological Society 

c/o Steve Trombulak 




Detail, Red Milkweed Beetle, Tetraopes tetrophthalmus. Graphite on bristol, 8.5"x 7" 

Susan Sawyer

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