Figure 1.  Queen Anne's Lace


Figure 2.  Queen Anne's Lace in tree seedlings.


Figure 3. Ants forage on the flowers


       

Figure 4. Bees (Left) and Wasps (circled on right).


  

Figure 5. Flies (Diptera).


  

Figure 6. Beetles (Coleoptera).


      

Figure 7. Grasshoppers (Orthoptera).


 

Figure 8. True bugs (Hemiptera).


Figure 9. Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera).


Figure 10. Beetles foraging on a flower head that went to seed.


  

Figure 11. Japanese beetles foraging and mating in the tree seedlings.


Figure 12. A fly resting on a seedling branch.


Date

Time

Site

Temp

Rainfall

Species

Count

Order

Behavior & Location

09/10/04

10:00

Flower

22

0.1

big red ant

5

Hymenoptera

Moving dirt

green grasshopper

2

Orthoptera

Cleaning his mouth

Japanese beetles

4

Coleoptera

Mating

Web spider

1

Arachnida

Eating a bug

Preying Mantis

1

Dictyoptera

Looking around

Little black beetles

10

Orthoptera

Eating leaves

Little flies

8

Diptera

Just sitting there. Resting?

House flies

3

Diptera

Drinking

Red butterfly

1

Lepidoptera

Flapping wings slowly

11:20

Grass

23

0.1

black ants

30

Hymenoptera

Moving around, using antennae. Foraging?

crickets

2

Orthoptera

Moving

Figure 13. Suggested format for Excel table.


Figure 14. Wood Lice




Figure 15. Example Excel table across species, orders and days. These data are for one site. You will have two of these tables. A tutorial for using Excel is here


Figure 16. A comparison of the total numbers for each order at the two sites.  A tutorial for using Excel is here


Figure 17. Example plot of top-ten species visiting the flowers.


An computerized key to the Insect Orders. Stand-alone version
VISTA USERS READ THIS TO RUN THE PROGRAMS