Where we were - in the center upper is Queens condo where I live and in the middle bottom are a bunch of blue stick pins which indicate where I took these photos - Alexandra Hospital Butterfly Trail.
What an amazing evening. Larry and I decided to return to Alexandra Hospital Butterfly Trail as previous visits were full of surprises. We were not disappointed. We found a Lynx egg group that was hatching, the metamorphosis of a cicada and a couple of butterflies.
A yellow butterfly
A green bug - sort of like a shield bug but I think quite different
Eyes of the green insect
Here is the leaf on which the mom Lynx (Oxyopes ? or Hamataliwa ?) deposited her eggs. You can see part of the green leaf with veins in the upper left - and little spiderlings crawling everywhere
A close-up view of the babies
More of the cluster - eyes on me it seems
At the bottom of the cluster
At the top of the cluster. You can see the green leaf with veins that was the substrate for depositing eggs
Brown butterfly
Catching dinner
Preparing dinner
Maybe spores or eggs?
Two plant hoppers
This guy (Cicada) was extracting himself/herself from her pupal stage - note the micro-wings at the bottom and her eye. The next frames show the wings expanding and her inverting her position
Note the wings expanding as she inflates them (I think)
More wing development
Now she is raising herself to grab the old pupa shell and extract the remaining part of her abdomen
Reaching for the old shell
Long reach
Attaching one leg
Front legs attached to the old shell - and now extracting the remaining part of her abdomen
Arching her back and inflating her wings and extracting her abdomen
Fully extracted - now adjusting to a vertical position
Wings continuing to develop
Another view
Fully developed wings
Side view
Side view
Dorsal view
Closeup of her attachment to her old shell
C. Frank Starmer