Durham, NC 8/30/17
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| Fledgling male Eastern Bluebird | Same bird | Male Fiery Skipper | Female Fiery Skipper | Flesh fly |
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| Flower fly | Same flower fly | Female Great Blue Skimmer | Leaffooted bug |
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| Green Treefrog | Same Green Treefrog | Nursery web spider | Pearl Crescent | Seedbox flower (Ludwigia alternifolia) |
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| Silver-spotted Skipper | Snout moth | Tachinid fly | Virgin's Bower |
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| Argiope aurantia | Blue Dasher | Brown Thrasher | Dogday cicada | Female Eastern Amberwing |
Durham, NC 8/28/17
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| Female Eastern Amberwing |
Durham, NC 8/23/17
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| Planthopper (Mysidia mississippiensis) | Thread-waisted wasp on Common Boneset |
Durham, NC 8/21/17 (Solar Eclipse, peaking at 2:43 pm, at 93% totality)
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| Crescent suns on the road | Same view, a little different | Crescent suns on a doorstep | Crescent suns on a flagstone | Crescent suns on another flagstone |
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| Crescent suns on leaves | Same view, a little different | Crescent suns on road | Artistic treatment of crescent suns |
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| Partial eclipse, 2:13 pm EDT | Karl D. Gottschalk's photo of crescent suns |
Durham, NC 8/20/17
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| Glassy-winged Sharpshooter | Little fruit fly? | Planthopper | Rice Stink Bug | Two-lined Froghopper |
Durham, NC 8/18/17
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| Snapping Turtle, which apparently came up the hill into our yard and then went across the street to a cul-de-sac island. | Same Snapping Turtle |
Durham, NC 8/16/17
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| Planthopper parasite moth caterpillar (Fulgoraecia exigua) |
Durham, NC 8/15/17
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| Twenty-spotted Ladybug Beetle larva | Weevil (Lixus genus) | Seven-spotted Ladybug Beetle | Snowberry Clearwing Moth | Hummingbird Clearwing Moth |
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| Rain backlit by the sun | Backlit rain closer | Long-jawed orb weaver spinning a web among Water Primroses at the local pond | Wasp | Female Zabulon Skipper |
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| Female Zabulon Skipper | Male Zabulon Skipper |
Durham, NC 8/14/17
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| Leaffooted bug nymph (late instar) | Red-headed Bush Cricket | Snout moth | Female Zabulon Skipper |
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| Male Zabulon Skipper on ironweed | Female Zabulon Skipper |
Durham, NC 8/11/17
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| Katydid | Leafhopper | Nursery web spider |
North Carolina Museum of Art grounds, Raleigh, Wake County, NC 8/10/17
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| Male Eastern Bluebird | Female Eastern Bluebird |
Downtown Raleigh, Wake County, NC 8/10/17
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| Female House Sparrow | Female/fledgling House Sparrows | Sculpture | Silver-spotted Skipper |
Prairie Ridge Ecostation, Raleigh, Wake County, NC 8/10/17
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| Cloudless Sulphur | Eastern Wood-Pewee | Flycatcher | Female Eastern Towhee | Fledgling |
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| Indigo Bunting | Passionflower | Pipevine Butterfly | Female House Finch | Hopper |
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| Female Red-winged Blackbird | Variegated Fritillary | Yellow Bladderwort (Utricularia macrorhiza) | A saddlebags | Same saddlebags |
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| Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle | Soldier fly (Sargus fasciatus). ID thanks to Norm Woodley. |
Durham, NC 8/7/17
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| Red-spotted Purple | Rose | Silver-spotted Skipper | Wolf spider | Female Zabulon Skipper |
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| Blue Dasher | Clouded Skipper | Least Skipper |
Durham, NC 8/5/17
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| Hummingbird Clearwing Moth on my butterfly bush | Another Hummingbird Clearwing Moth on Pickerelweed at the local pond | Same Hummingbird Clearwing Moth | Monarch on my butterfly bush | Same Monarch |
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| Same Monarch | Male Eastern Pondhawk | Slaty Skimmer | Squash plant | Male Eastern Tiger Swallowtail |
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| Green Treefrog | Cardinal Flower | Teneral Blue Dasher |
Durham, NC 8/3/17
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| False Dandelion | Leafcutter bee on goldenrod | Stink bug | Mystery wildflower | Male Zabulon Skipper |
Durham, NC 8/2/17
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| Planthopper (Rhyncomitra microrhina) | Prominent moth caterpillar (Furcula genus, Cerurinae subfamily) | Red-headed Bush Cricket | Another Red-headed Bush Cricket |
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| Long-legged fly | Female Zabulon Skipper | Appalachian Brown | Carolina Dayflower | Cricket |
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| Ichneumon wasp | Spicebush Swallowtail on Pickerelweed |