Comments on: Monomoy Island http://www.bugsforthugs.com/2007/08/12/monomoy-island/ An Entomologist's Blog Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:14:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Rodger Gwiazdowski http://www.bugsforthugs.com/2007/08/12/monomoy-island/#comment-1184 Rodger Gwiazdowski Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:56:03 +0000 http://www.bugsforthugs.com/2007/08/12/monomoy-island/#comment-1184 Hi Kelley, Great pictures! A few quick IDs: The "sea lion" is a seal, the two are in two separate families. Besides lots of morphological diffs, sea lions are mostly pacific. Your pic is of a Grey Seal Halichoerus grypus which are cool and fairly common along the coast but drop off around long island and NJ south. The tiger beetle is Cicindela hirticollis, a fairly accepted common name is the hairy-necked tiger beetle as they have tufts of long dense white seatae around the midsides of their thorax. Thanks for so many great pics. I leave for Mexico friday to return late octobe r/early Nov and will keep you in the picture e-mail loop. Hope all is well, Rodger Hi Kelley,

Great pictures!

A few quick IDs:

The “sea lion” is a seal, the two are in two separate families. Besides lots of morphological diffs, sea lions are mostly pacific. Your pic is of a Grey Seal Halichoerus grypus which are cool and fairly common along the coast but drop off around long island and NJ south.

The tiger beetle is Cicindela hirticollis, a fairly accepted common name is the hairy-necked tiger beetle as they have tufts of long dense white seatae around the midsides of their thorax.

Thanks for so many great pics.
I leave for Mexico friday to return late octobe r/early Nov and will keep you in the picture e-mail loop.

Hope all is well,
Rodger

]]> By: Kelley http://www.bugsforthugs.com/2007/08/12/monomoy-island/#comment-1174 Kelley Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:20:32 +0000 http://www.bugsforthugs.com/2007/08/12/monomoy-island/#comment-1174 I know practically nothing about sea lions/seals...all the same to me ;) I know practically nothing about sea lions/seals…all the same to me ;)

]]> By: Oran_Taran http://www.bugsforthugs.com/2007/08/12/monomoy-island/#comment-1172 Oran_Taran Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:04:55 +0000 http://www.bugsforthugs.com/2007/08/12/monomoy-island/#comment-1172 Hmm. Are you sure those are sea lions? They look strange to be a sea lion. To my untrained eye they look like elephant seals. Hmm. Are you sure those are sea lions? They look strange to be a sea lion. To my untrained eye they look like elephant seals.

]]> By: Monsma http://www.bugsforthugs.com/2007/08/12/monomoy-island/#comment-1170 Monsma Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:31:26 +0000 http://www.bugsforthugs.com/2007/08/12/monomoy-island/#comment-1170 Great pictures as always. And clearly there are benefits to not living in Iowa. :-) Great pictures as always. And clearly there are benefits to not living in Iowa. :-)

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