Category: Insects

Gall (Gall Wasp?) Searsport, Maine There are a few of these fuzzy galls on the underside of the leaves of the maple tree that is next to our RV. I hadn’t noticed galls like this before…all of the others had smooth surfaces rather than fuzzy as these ones are. Galls are an abnormal growth of…

Carolina Locust (Searsport, Maine) Dissosteira carolina Vinnie (one of our standard poodles) has taken to hunting locusts every day. She has learned where they can be found and regularly patrols there…getting so excited when they fly up and away from her. Carolina locusts are a type of short-horned grasshopper found throughout North American and southern…

Monarch Butterfly (Searsport, Maine) Danaus plexippus We started seeing Monarchs here over the last couple of days. Yesterday while we were taking our morning walk on the beach, we saw a Monarch being chased by a Merlin. As agile as the little falcon was, the butterfly still got away! The Monarch is one of the…