Bugs are friends
- Regarded as a symbol of love and luck
- Bright red with black spots
- Feed on aphids, mites, and mealybugs in gardens
- They maintain ecosystem balance and are also important pollinators
What is a ladybug?
- Was discovered in Staten Island August of 2020
- Certified planthopper
- Feed on trees of heaven (which are also invasive AND poisonous), but also infest soybean fields
- Native to China and Vietnam
- You know it, you love(hate) it, and kill them at every opportunity
What is a spotted lanternfly?
- A green space acting as a recreational area, leisure, habitat as well as refugee habitat
- There are around 1,900 of them in NYC, totaling near 30,000 acres
What is a park?
This 585-acre park in Brooklyn features a lake with a charming boathouse and tree-fringed walkways.
What is Prospect Park?
- They eat lots of household pests, like mosquitoes, flies, and cockroaches (KEEP THEM IN UR HOUSE OVER THE SUMMER.)
- Reduce spread of disease
- Their venom has therapeutic benefits, and is used to treat heart disease and high blood pressure
- Minecraft enchantment Bane of Arthropods is very useful in light levels below 12...
What is a spider?
- Carry diseases like malaria, the zika virus, the West Nile virus, and Dengue
- They also eat flower nectar
- Everyone HATES THEM
- Are attracted to sebum
What is a mosquito?
- A garden managed by residents of a specific neighborhood
- Help with food insecurity and health
- Usually divided into plots
What is a community garden?
- Has over 58 miles of walkways
- 632 different types of trees
- Bigger than Monaco 🇲🇨 (that is not indonesia.)
- Has foxes, bears, and a multitude of crime occurrences
What is Central Park?
- Evolved from the snail
- Decomposers; eating fallen leaves, dead worms and other insects, but they also eat lots of other things!!
- Often regarded as garden pests
- they are very very cute in my humble opinion .
What is a slug?
- You will see a strange accumulation of sawdust inside your house
- Build their nests in dead/damp wood
- Bites may contain formic acid (found in bee stings)
- Tunnel through wood
What is a carpenter ant?
This practice in urban green spaces supports invertebrate populations by providing food and shelter, is resilient towards local climate, and restores natural habitats.
What are native plant gardens?
This 85-acre park features views of the Manhattan skyline and includes playgrounds, walkways, multiples piers, and seasonal restaurants.
What is Brooklyn Bridge Park?
- They mimic their habitat through color
- Both predator and prey, important to food webs
- Feed on flies, moths, and beetles, therefore reducing possible damage
- Long, narrow body and upright posture
What is a praying mantis?
- Feed on carbohydrates and are able to digest cellulose
- Spiders and centipedes eat them
- Antique book collectors worst nightmare
- Are completely harmless, but a worse problem than cockroaches
What is a silverfish?
- Include shallow lakes and marshes
- Semi-aquatic ecosystem
- Control erosion and help water quality
- There is one in Marine Park
What are wetlands?
This tranquil park is known for its flowering cherry trees and historic boulder marking the neighborhood's Dutch heritage.
What is Amersfort Park?
- Can fly BACKWARDS. (Don't think of hummingbirds. they have spines.)
- Do NOT have stingers
- Often mistaken with bees and wasps
- Pollinators!!! They love meadows and wooded areas
What is a hoverfly?
- Feed on hardwood trees (maple, birch, elm, etc.)
- Known as starry sky or sky beetle
- Lay their eggs inside of trees, feed on tissue which then kills the tree
- Found in North American ports in the 90s
What is an asian longhorned beetle?
- Urban areas that mimic natural ecosystems
- Designed to support both plants and invertebrates
- Are elevated, but don't hit the ground
What are green roofs?
- Its conservancy was created in '94 to rebuild the area
- Has 240,000 sq ft. of perennial gardens
- Created an urban farm program
- Sits on the far south end of Manhattan
What is Battery Park?