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Long-horned Bee, Melissodes bimaculata
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 2007-07-22

There are actually several species and genera of Long-horned Bees. They don’t have individual common names.
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There’s a popular belief about homeopathy and other folk cures that “It can’t hurt”. You might as well try it. Sadly that isn’t true as this case indicates. It seems that “A chewing gum company turned cold remedy manufacturer” was selling a homeopathic nasal spray that destroyed people’s sense of taste and smell.

For a long time, I didn’t know much about homeopathy, and just thought it was some sort of mild herbal medicine. Then one day while I was waiting for a prescription to be filled at my pharmacist’s I picked up a pamphlet advocating homeopathy and started reading. It very quickly became obvious that it was total quackery.
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Eastern Amberwing, Perithemis tenera, ♀
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 2007-07-22

Broad-winged Skipper, Poanes viator
Ridgewood Reservoir, 2007-07-14
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Eastern Carpenter Bee, Xylocopa virginica
Ridgewood Reservoir, 2007-07-14
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Common Tern, Sterna hirundo
2007-07-06