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Hammock Hills Nature Preserve, Ocracoke Island, Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Hyde County, NC 4/30/21
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| Juniper Hairstreak |
Karl |
Pearl Crescent |
Poison Ivy (Toxicodendron radicans) flowers and leaves |
Amber |
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| Eastern Blue-eyed Grass |
Fowler's Toad |
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Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 4/30/21
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| Carolina Anole |
Aphid |
White Campion (Silene latifolia) |
Another White Campion (Silene latifolia) |
Seen in a patch of White Clover, it was perhaps a mutant. |
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| Coral Honeysuckle |
More Coral Honeysuckle |
Mosquito (Toxorhina magna) |
Dwarf Blue-eyed Grass |
Eastern Blue-eyed Grass |
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| Eastern Blue-eyed Grass |
Departing ferry and channel marker |
Yellow Firewheel |
Firewheels (Gaillardia pulchella) |
Fowler's Toad |
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| Morning Glory |
Thicket Bean or Sandhills Bean (Phaseolus polystachios var. sinuatus) |
Another Thicket Bean or Sandhills Bean (Phaseolus polystachios var. sinuatus) |
Another Thicket Bean or Sandhills Bean (Phaseolus polystachios var. sinuatus) |
Yaupon Holly (Ilex vomitoria) |
Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 4/29/21
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| Aphid exuvia |
Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle |
Beach Pennywort |
Black Willow flowers |
Black Willow flowers and buds |
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| Black Willow flower |
Black Willow flowers, from a different angle |
Brookweed (Samolus parviflorus) |
Another Brookweed (Samolus parviflorus) |
Common Vetch (Vicia sativa) |
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| Milkweed Assassin Bug |
Pearl Crescent |
Whitetop Sedge |
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Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 4/28/21
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| Mustard plants |
Narrow-leaf Blue-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium angustifolium) |
Yaupon Holly (Ilex vomitoria) flowers |
Coral Honeysuckle |
Grounselbush Beetle (Trirhabda bacharidis) |
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| Fleabane |
Gray Catbird |
Hooked Buttercup |
Low Hop Clover |
March fly |
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| Northern Mockingbird |
Multiflora Rose, with Virginia Creeper |
Multiflora Rose |
Mustard |
Common Starling |
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| Mystery vine |
Yellow Thistle |
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Ramp 59, Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Ocracoke Island, Hyde County, NC 4/27/21
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| American Sea Rocket |
Boat |
Cedars |
Crab tracks |
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| Eastern Towhee |
Large washed-up fish |
Ring-billed Gull, victim of Hurricane Dorian |
Hurricane damage |
More hurricane damage |
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| As far as we could go |
Osprey |
Same Osprey |
Same Osprey |
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| Prickly Pear fruit |
Male Red-winged Blackbird singing |
Sanderlings |
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| Sanderlings |
Same Sanderlings |
Some Sanderlings |
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Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 4/27/21
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| Aphids |
Mystery bush |
Groundselbush (Trirhabda bacharidis) |
Groundselbush (Trirhabda bacharidis) |
Larva and an exuvia |
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| Milkweed Assassin Bug |
Milkweed Assassin Bug |
Male Spotless Ladybug Beetle |
Male Spotless Ladybug Beetle |
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Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Ocracoke Island, Hyde County, NC 4/26/21
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| Firewheels |
Sanderling |
Flying Sanderlings |
Sanderlings |
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| Sanderlings |
Willet |
Same Willet |
Another Willet |
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| Willets and Sanderlings |
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Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 4/26/21
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| Ocracoke sunrise |
Aphids |
Milkweed Assassin Bug nymph with fly prey |
Milkweed Assassin Bug nymph with fly prey |
Milkweed Assassin Bug nymph with fly prey |
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| Big Milkweed Bug |
Blowfly |
Curly Dock |
Eastern Blue-eyed Grass |
Fish reaching for food on pond surface |
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| Same fish |
Flea beetle larva (Trirhabda bacharidis) |
Tiny fly |
View of Pamlico Sound from the other side of Route 12 |
Northern Mockingbird |
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| Northern Mockingbird |
Pearl Crescent |
Pink Wood-sorrel |
Soldier fly (Odontomyia cincta), Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC, 4/26/21. Genus ID thanks to Vassily Belov. Species ID thanks to Norm Woodley. |
Sow Thistle |
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| Another Squirrel Treefrog |
Another Squirrel Treefrog |
Same Squirrel Treefrog |
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Ocracoke and Swan Quarter, Hyde County, NC 4/25/21
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| Brown Pelican |
Double-crested Cormorants and a few gulls on Big Foot Island |
Double-crested Cormorants and many gulls on Big Foot Island |
Beach Evening Primrose |
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| Double-crested Cormorants on Big Foot Island with Ocracoke houses in the background |
View from our deck in Ocracoke |
Dwarf Dandelion |
Eastern Blue-eyed Grass, still unfolding in the morning |
Brookweed or Water Pimpernel (Samolus parviflorus) |
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| Eurasian Collared Dove in Ocracoke |
Gulls on Big Foot Island |
House on the big marsh in Ocracoke |
Killdeer in Swan Quarter |
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| Full moon |
Ocracats is an organized effort to support feral cats in an Ocracoke neighborhood. |
Pink Wood-sorrel (Oxalis debilis) in Swan Quarter |
Little Quaking Grass (Briza minor) in Ocracoke |
Birdfoot Trefoil (Lotus corniculatus) in Ocracoke |
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| Flying Killdeer |
Two other Killdeers, one flying |
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Durham, NC 4/23/21
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| Black Cherry |
Blighted blackberry leaves |
Azure Bluets |
Spined Soldier Bug nymph with caterpillar prey |
Male Northern Cardinal |
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| Carolina Cranesbill |
Common Whitetail |
Coral Honeysuckle |
Curly Dock |
Dwarf Blue-eyed Grass flower |
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| Another Dwarf Blue-eyed Grass flower |
Yet another Dwarf Blue-eyed Grass flower |
Hairy Buttercups |
Herbwilliam |
Japanese Mazus |
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| Little Brown Jug flowers |
Mock Strawberry |
Mulberry fruits |
Needle-tip Blue-eyed Grass flower |
Purple Dead-nettle flowers |
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| Violet Wood-sorrel |
Common Greenbrier (Smilax rotundifolia) |
Same Common Greenbrier (Smilax rotundifolia) |
Flowering Dogwood |
Chipping Sparrow |
Durham, NC 4/21/21
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| Brown Thrasher with worm |
Same Brown Thrasher with worm |
Hairy Buttercups |
Cabbage White |
Same Cabbage White |
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| Carolina Cranesbill (Geranium carolinium) |
Common Chickweed (Stellaria media) |
Corn Speedwell (Veronica arvensis) |
Another Corn Speedwell (Veronica arvensis) |
Other Corn Speedwells (Veronica arvensis) |
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| Another Corn Speedwell |
Dog Fennel |
Dwarf Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium minus) |
Dwarf Dandelion (Krigia genus) |
English Bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) |
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| Field Madder (Sherardia arvensis) |
Fleabane (Erigeron genus) |
Ground Ivy (Glechoma hederacea) |
Other Ground Ivy |
Hearts-a-bustin' buds (Euonymus americanus) |
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| Littleleaf Buttercup (Ranunculus abortivus) |
Pearl Crescent |
Pennsylvania Bittercress (Cardamine pensylvanica) |
Persian Speedwell (Veronica persica) |
Southern Blue Flag Iris (Iris virginica) |
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| Exposed roots of a tree on a creek edge |
Tulip Poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera) fallen flower |
Tulip Poplar tree on old log |
Warty leaf beetle |
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Durham, NC 4/20/21
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| Jumping spider (male Pelegrina Proterva) |
Ashy Clubtail |
Mining bee |
Narrowleaf Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium angustifolium) |
Hairy Buttercup (Ranunculus hispidus) |
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| Eastern Brownsnake |
Green Six-spotted Tiger Beetle |
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Durham, NC 4/19/21
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| Antmimic jumping spider (Synemosyna formica) |
Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle |
Bee fly |
Black Willow |
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| Blowfly |
Female Blue Dasher |
Bowl-and-doily Spider pair |
Same Bowl-and-doily Spider pair |
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| Same Bowl-and-doily Spider pair (Photo is upside down) |
Carolina Cranesbill |
Common Chickweed |
Chipping Sparrow |
Common Vetch |
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| Cuckoo bee |
Juvenal's Duskywing |
Female Eastern Tailed-blue on Ground Ivy |
Herbwilliam |
Male catkins on Eastern Hophornbeam |
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| Male catkin on Eastern Hophornbeam |
Ladybug beetle larva |
Lyre-leaved Sage |
Orb weaver |
Post Oak catkin |
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| Post Oak catkins |
Probably a very young Yellow Passionvine. |
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail |
White Clover patch |
White Clover with moths |
Durham, NC 4/18/21
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| Crane fly |
Deerberry |
Ground Ivy |
Henbit |
Herbwilliam |
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| Japanese Honeysuckle leaves |
Japanese Maple samara and female flowers |
Japanese Mazus |
Little Brown Jug |
Mock Strawberry |
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| Oak catkins |
Another oak catkin |
Close-up of Post Oak catkin |
Purple Dead-nettle |
River Birch female catkin |
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| River Birch male catkins |
Spoonleaf Purple Everlasting blooms |
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Durham, NC 4/17/21
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| Sawtooth Blackberry (Rubus argutus) |
Common Yellow Wood Sorrel (Oxalis stricta) |
Post Oak (Quercus stellata) |
Same Post Oak |
Virginia Spring Beauty |
Durham, NC 4/15/21
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| Barklouse |
Bigseed Forget-me-not |
Black Willow |
Chipping Sparrow |
Same Chipping Sparrow |
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| Dwarf Cinquefoil (Potentilla canadensis) |
Eastern Tailed-blue |
Eggs |
English Bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) |
European Spindle Tree (Euonymus europaeus) |
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| Little Brown Jug leaves |
Little Brown Jug flower |
Lyre-leaved Sage |
Pearl Crescent |
Little Periwinkle (Vinca minor) |
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| Eastern Phoebe |
Sticky-willy |
Smooth Blackhaw |
Mystery vine |
Painted Buckeye |
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| Amur Honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii). This is an introduced species, from Asia. |
Very young Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle larva, with mites |
Common Vetch (Vicia sativa) |
Field Madder (Sherardia arvensis). This is an introduced plant from Eurasia. |
Ground Ivy (Glechoma hederacea) |
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| Hearts-a-bustin' (Euonymus americanus) buds |
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Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, Moore County, NC 4/13/21
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| Arrowleaf Violet (Viola sagittata) |
Bird's Foot Violet (Viola pedata) |
Bird's Foot Violet (Viola pedata) |
Male Blue Corporal (Ladona deplanata) |
Blue Corporal (Ladona deplanata) |
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| Blue Corporal |
Broadhead Skink |
Crane fly |
Striped Cream Violet (Viola striata) |
Diminutive Clubtail |
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Mystery dragonfly |
Ornate Pennant (Celithemis ornata) |
Juvenal's Duskywing |
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| Dwarf Cinquefoil |
Dwarf Dandelions |
Dwarf Iris (Iris verna) |
Another Dwarf Iris (Iris verna) |
Teneral male Little Blue Dragonlet |
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| Mantled Baskettail |
Narrowleaf Blueberry |
Another Narrowleaf Blueberry |
Orchard Spider |
Pinxter Flower |
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| Turkey Oak |
Sand Wasp |
Silver-spotted Skipper |
Spicebush Swallowtail on Pinxter Flower |
Spicebush Swallowtail on Dwarf Iris |
Southern Pines, Moore County, NC 4/13/21
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| Blue Toadflax (Nuttallanthus canadensis) |
Another Blue Toadflax (Nuttallanthus canadensis) |
Camellia, cultivated plant |
Carolina Cranesbill (Geranium carolinianum) |
Probably a Cypress Vine (Ipomoea quamoclit) |
Heartwing Sorrel |
Wisteria (Wisteria frutescens) |
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| Hawkweed? |
Heartwing Sorrel (Rumex hastatulus), up close |
Low Hop Clover (Trifolium campestre) |
Mystery bush |
Female Eastern Tailed-Blue |
Durham, NC 4/11/21
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| Bigseed Forget-me-not |
Bigseed Forget-me-not |
Hairy Buttercup |
Juvie female Northern Cardinal |
Same juvie female Northern Cardinal |
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| Male Eastern Bluebird |
Field Madder |
More Field Madder |
American Goldfinch |
Grass |
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| Green Ash |
Planthopper nymph, with mite |
Eastern Gray Squirrels doing courtship routine |
Sticky-willy |
Another Sticky-willy |
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| Tachinid fly |
Warty Spurge |
Mystery wildflower |
Another mystery wildflower |
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Durham, NC 4/10/21
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| Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle |
Beaked Cornsalad |
Another Beaked Cornsalad |
Beetle |
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| American Bladdernut (Staphylea trifolia) |
American Bladdernut (Staphylea trifolia) |
American Bladdernut (Staphylea trifolia) |
Female Northern Cardinal |
Male Northern Cardinal |
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| Male Northern Cardinal |
Male Northern Cardinal |
Northern Cardinal pair |
Fowler's Toad |
Mystery grass |
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| House Finch pair |
Inchworm |
Jumping spider |
Mock Strawberry |
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| Orb weaver |
Male Red-winged Blackbird |
Female Red-winged Blackbird |
Same Female Red-winged Blackbird |
Male Red-winged Blackbird |
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| River Birch male catkins |
Female River Birch catkin |
Male and female River Birch catkins |
Male River Birch catkins |
Orb weaver |
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| Turkey Vulture |
Possumhaw Viburnum |
Warty Spurge |
Same Warty Spurge |
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Nature Trail, North Carolina Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC 4/9/21
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| Bluets |
Common Blue Violets |
Green and Gold |
Jack-in-the-pulpit |
Another Jack-in-the-pulpit |
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| Another Jack-in-the-pulpit |
Little Brown Jug flowers |
Another Little Brown Jug flower |
Several Little Brown Jug flowers |
Close-up of one Little Brown Jug flower |
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| Little Sweet Betsy |
Another Little Sweet Betsy |
Mayapple with a flower bud |
Moth |
Orchard Spider |
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| Painted Buckeye/Red Buckeye hybrid |
Painted Buckeye/Red Buckeye hybrid |
Painted Buckeye |
Phlox |
Another Phlox |
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| Red-bellied Woodpecker |
Rhododendron |
Round-lobed Hepatica |
Star Chickweed |
Sweetshrub |
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| Tufted Titmouse |
Tufted Titmouse |
Warty Spurge |
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North Carolina Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC 4/9/21
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| Bladdernut |
May beetle in pond |
Blueberry flowers |
Buckbean |
Dog-hobble |
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| Heartleaf foamflower |
Hoary Puccoon |
Heartleaf foamflowers and Eastern Indian Paintbrush |
Jacob's Ladder |
Silver-spotted Skipper |
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| Eastern Termite |
Same Eastern Termite |
Another Eastern Termite |
White-throated Sparrow |
The same White-throated Sparrow |
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| Wild Geranium |
Mystery tree flowers |
Mystery flowers |
Witch Alder |
Red Buckeye |
Durham, NC 4/8/21
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| Mystery aster |
Our azalea |
Carolina Cherry Laurel |
Common Bluebell |
Common Yellow Wood-sorrel |
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| Confederate Violet |
Flowering Dogwood |
Early Saxifrage |
Meadow Hawkweed |
Hearts-a-bustin' buds |
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| Ivyleaf Speedwell |
Japanese Cherry (Prunus serrulata) |
Another Japanese Cherry (Prunus serrulata) |
River Birch male catkins |
Possumhaw Viburnum |
Eno River State Park (Cole Mill Road access), Orange County unless specified otherwise, 4/7/21
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| Eastern Redbud, Durham County |
Azure Bluets |
Bobbitt's Hole |
Common Blue Violet |
Cutleaf Toothwort |
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| Foam at Bobbitt's Hole |
Ground Ivy |
Pennsylvania Bittercress |
Purple Dead-nettle |
Hybrid Painted Buckeye (Aesculus sylvatica) and Red Buckeye (Aesculus pavia) |
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| Hybrid Painted Buckeye (Aesculus sylvatica) and Red Buckeye (Aesculus pavia) |
Another Hybrid Painted Buckeye (Aesculus sylvatica) and Red Buckeye (Aesculus pavia) |
Rue Anemone |
Another Rue Anemone |
Star Chickweed |
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| Star Chickweed |
Painted Buckeye |
Another Painted Buckeye |
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Durham, NC 4/6/21
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| American Hornbeam bracts and catkin |
American Lady caterpillar |
Aphids |
Male Northern Cardinal |
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| Same male Northern Cardinal |
Same male Northern Cardinal |
Carolina Chickadee |
Another Carolina Chickadee |
Common Chickweed |
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| Corn Speedwell |
Flower fly (Toxomerus marginatus) |
Ground Ivy |
Oriental False Hawksbeard |
More Oriental FalseHawksbeard |
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| Henbit |
Yellow Jacket |
Japanese Mazus |
Strawberry Rootworm (Paria fragariae) |
Another leaf beetle |
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| Mining bee |
Same mining bee |
Orb weaver |
Another orb weaver |
Sassafras flower |
Durham, NC 4/5/21
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| Mining bee |
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
Same Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
Common Vetch |
Japanese Rose |
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| Male march fly (Dilophus genus) |
Picture-winged fly (Chaetopsis genus) |
Sticky-willy |
Weevil (Lixus concavus) |
Winged-elm seedpods |
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| Painted Buckeye |
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Durham, NC 4/4/21
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| American Lady |
Same American Lady |
Same American Lady |
Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle |
Blackjack Oak catkins |
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| Blackjack Oak catkins |
Cryptocephalid beetle larva |
Pearl Crescent |
Red Maple samaras |
Spider missing a leg and wasp - a mystery! |
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| Six-spotted Fishing Spider |
White-lined Burrowing Bug |
Yellow Poplar Weevil |
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Durham, NC 4/3/21
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| Chinese Witchhazel |
Chipping Sparrow |
Dogwood blooms |
Early Saxifrage |
Green Six-spotted Tiger Beetle |
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| Mock Strawberry |
Eastern Redbud |
American Robin |
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Durham, NC 4/1/21
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| American Elm seedpods |
American Hornbeam catkin |
Beetle |
Black Oak leaves and catkins |
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| Blueberry flower and buds |
Other blueberry flowers |
Common Chickweed |
Dovefoot Geranium |
Another Dovefoot Geranium, showing leaf |
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| Hawkweed |
Hooked Buttercup |
Male Eastern Hophornbeam catkins |
Close-up of part of a male Eastern Hophornbeam catkin |
Jumping spider |
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| Jumping spider |
Another jumping spider |
Leafhopper |
Male Rambur's Forktail |
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| Sassafras flowers |
Stickywilly |
Another Stickywilly |
Virginia Spring Beauty |
White Clover |
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