Wild basil with insect customer, Schenley Park, 15 June 2025 (picture by Kate St. John)
22 June 2025
This week I noticed flowers, fruiting fungi, and bugs in Schenley and Frick Parks. The flowers are city pioneers, the fungi are native, and the bugs are principally mysteries. Right here’s the story in photographs:
City pioneer vegetation: When unsure I used the Image This app to determine them.
Numerous moist climate has inspired fruiting fungi in Schenley Park. Google Lens tells me they’re:
Bugs:
Noticed lanternfly nymphs on Satan’s strolling stick/Japanese aralia
Galls on shagbark hickory leaves. This tree was infested in Frick Park.
Spittlebugs on wingstem in Frick Park.
Frequent nipplewort, Frick Park, 18 June 2025 (picture by Kate St. John)Galinsoga, Schenley Park, 15 June 2025 (picture by Kate St. John)Flowers of oriental bittersweet, Schenley Park, 15 June 2025 (picture by Kate St. John)Oriental girl’s thumb, Schenley Park, 15 June 2025 (picture by Kate St. John)Google Lens says that is Blushing amanita (Amanita rubescens), Schenley Park, 15 June 2025 (picture by Kate St. John)Oak bracket fungus or weeping polypore, at base of oak in Schenley Park, 15 June 2025 (picture by Kate St. John)Noticed lanternfly nymphs on Japanese aralia, Schenley Park, 15 June 2025 (picture by Kate St. John)Shagbark hickory leaf galls, an infested tree in Frick Park, 18 June 2025 (picture by Kate St. John)Spittlebugs on wingstem, Frick Park, 18 June 2025 (picture by Kate St. John)
