A return to The Farm at Sunnyside to look for odonates. I photographed two new species for me, a really nice image of Amber-winged Spreadwing (Lestes eurinus), and Stream Bluet (Enallagma exsulans).
I didn’t stop for plants (trip leader John Lenox was only into dragonflies) but, on the run, I did catch a lovely dorsal view of one of our super-common small butterflies, Eastern Tailed-Blue (Cupido comyntas), a female. Mixed feelings about the dipteran I snapped which turned out to be a species of deer fly, Chrysops callidus, and which turned out to be ovipositing. Quite surprised to get the ID on something in an order I rarely see, Black Dancer Caddisfly (Mystacides sepulchralis).
I must have sweated more than I thought: I’ve been slurping fluids all evening.