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April 2010
Durham, NC 4/30/10
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| Wolf spider | Pearl Crescent | Lanternless Firefly Beetle | Mock Strawberry | Paper wasp (Polistes genus) |
Penny's Bend Nature Preserve, Durham, NC 4/26/10
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| Wild Blue Indigo | Dogbane Tiger Moth (Cycnia tenera), found on the underside of a Common Milkweed leaf | Shield-backed Katydid | Ox-eye Daisy |
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| Multi-colored Asian Ladybug Beetle, anomalous with no spots | Male Juvenal's Duskywing | Large Bee Fly in flight | Mating muscid flies |
Eno River State Park, Old Cole Mill Road access, Orange County, NC 4/24/10
I was accompanied by Lori Musick, a fellow naturalist, who helped me spot some of these plants and animals and was generally a great help.
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| Juvenal's Duskywing | Adult female Eastern Fence Lizard | Pink Wood-sorrel |
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| Blue-eyed Grass | Stream Cruiser (Didymops transversa) | Coral Honeysuckle | Pinxter Flower (Rhododendron periclymenoides), a member of a wild azalea species |
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| Fowler's Toad | Owlet moth | Broad-shouldered Water Striders (Rhagovelia obesa). These tiny insects, no more than 1 mm long, were in frantic motion at Bobbitt's Hole. | Deerberry (Vaccinium stamineum), held upside-down by Lori. |
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| Black Widow | Awl fly (Coenomyia ferruginea) being attacked by a black widow, Eno River State Park, Old Cole Mill Road, Orange County, NC, 4/24/10 | Woodland Stonecrop (Sedum ternatum), Eno River State Park, Orange County, NC, 4/24/10 | Atamasco Lily (Zephyranthes atamasca) |
Durham, NC 4/22/10
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| Fringe Tree (Chionanthus virginicus, Oleaceae family) | Spined Soldier Bug |
Durham, NC 4/20/10
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| Baby praying mantises, Durham, NC, 4/20/10 |
Durham, NC 4/19/10
The current drought allowed me to go way back in my local marsh, where I saw most of these things.
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| Tiny water strider (Trepobates subnitidus), on a stream in the marsh | Apparently an upside-down aquatic snail, scroffing up some blue organic matter and breathing heavily. On a stream in the marsh. | Semiaquatic, succulent buttercup producing fruit. | Boxelder Bug nymph apparently scavenging. Seen at roadside. The casualty rate among caterpillars on dark paved surfaces was striking today. |
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| Dark Fishing Spider, very small | Wolf spider, also very small. These spiders routinely walk on water, and no one's impressed! | Very small fly on a buttercup flower. Seen on the margins of the marsh. | Small bee on a cattail leaf. | A kind of wild geranium, away from the marsh |
Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, Orange County, NC 4/18/10
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| Ashy Clubtail | Common Goldstar (Hypoxis hirsutis). Not really so common: this remote spot in Johnston Mill NP is the only place I've seen any. | Seven-spotted ladybug beetle | Dung beetle, note clay on margins | Bashful Trillium | Yellow Buckeye flowers |
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| Tachinid fly | Large Beefly (Bombilius major) | Female Eastern Fence Lizard | Jack-in-the-pulpit |
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| Heartleaf Foamflower | Eastern Bluestar | Ground Ivy | Ichneumon wasp | Common Vetch |
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| Rue Anemone | Male Eastern Tailed Blue | Flower fly (Toxomerus genus) | Orchard Spider | Jack-in-the-pulpits: five spathes |
Durham, NC 4/15/10
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| Stink bug (Brochymena genus) |
Hanging Rock State Park, Stokes County, NC 4/11/10
Stars can shine. In fact, stars can light up the sky: even at new moon, everything here was clearly visible at night. The air was so clean I could get to the summit of Moore's Knob (2500 feet) with little more effort than it takes to do a routine walk back home in the big city. We never think of air quality as being related to heart health, but maybe we should start doing it.
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| Ant dragging a bee by one wing. Bee was marginally alive. | Sleepy Duskywing (Erynnis brizo) | Fan Clubmoss (Lycopodium digitatum), somewhat past "blooming" time | Leaf beetle (Chrysomela scripta), seen at the observation tower at the summit of Moore's Knob, far from anything with leaves on it. | Mourning Cloak. Photo taken by Karl D. Gottschalk. |
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| Field Pansy | Small (10 mm) scarab beetle (Hoplia trivia) | Halberd-leaved (Yellow) Violet (Viola hastata). Seen at the same elevation as the lake (about 1200 feet). | Carolina Hemlock (Tsuga caroliniana) cones, opened. These showed up in the rocky upper reaches of Moore's Knob (2500 feet high). These are endangered by the woolly adelgid, but state-listed only in Tennessee. |
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| Fetter-bush, Mountain Andromeda or Lily-of-the-Valley shrub (Pieris floribunda), Ericaceae family | Common Groundpine (Dendrolycopodium obscuram) | Fan Clubmoss (Lycopodium digitatum) | Might be part of a pear tree. Seen at Moore's Knob summit. |
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| View from Moore's Knob summit | Pilot Mountain: view from Moore's Knob summit |
Durham, NC 4/10/10
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| Large Beefly | Blister Beetle (Lytta aenea), probably not in great shape | Mating march flies, female on left | Common Cinquefoil |
Durham, NC 4/8/10
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| Eastern Tiger Swallowtail on Carolina Jessamyn | Large Bee Fly in flight | March fly | Leaffooted Bug |
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| Southern Green Stink Bug | March flies mating | Plant bug, Miridae family. This one was about 2 mm long and hopping around in the street. I thought it was a gnat at first. |
Durham, NC 4/5/10
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| Wolf Spider | Mazus japonicus flower |
Durham, NC 4/1/10
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| Cimbicid sawfly (Abia genus). Not a bee, but an Abia! |
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