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Durham,
NC 7/31/15
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| Young
Gray (Copes?) Treefrog |
Ambush Bug nymph |
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Durham,
NC 7/30/15
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| Male Zabulon Skipper |
Paper
wasp and some tiny flies |
Turkey Vulture |
Fiery Skipper on Lantana |
Planthopper Parasite Moth (Fulgoraecia exigua) caterpillar |
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| Least Skipper |
Egg mass |
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Durham,
NC 7/28/15
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| Green Treefrog |
Barklouse |
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Mason
Farm Biological Reserve, Orange County, NC 7/27/15
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| Appalachian Brown |
Horace's Duskywing |
Sleepy Orange |
Northern Pearly Eye |
Red Admiral |
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| Meadow Beauty |
Meadow Beauties |
Rose Pink (Sabatia
angularis) |
Male Widow Skimmer |
Skipper |
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| A worn Red Admiral |
Another Red Admiral |
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Durham, NC 7/27/15 (Third Fork Creek Trail)
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| Teneral Great Blue Skimmer |
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Durham,
NC 7/24/15 (the marsh, evening)
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| Ambush bug nymph |
Another ambush bug nymph |
Rice Stink Bug |
Insect eggs |
Rambur's Forktail |
Durham,
NC 7/24/15 (the marsh, evening)
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| Ambush bug
nymph |
Crane fly |
Acanaloniid
planthopper |
Scudderia genus katydid |
Arabesque
orb weaver |
Jordan
Lake (east of 751), Chatham County, NC 7/24/15
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| Red-spotted Purple |
Same Red-spotted Purple |
Two Red-spotted Purples
apparently seeking sap |
Same
Red-spotted Purples |
Duskywing |
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| Mating grasshoppers |
Male Great
Blue Skimmer |
Ground beetle |
Horse fly
(Tabanus atratus) |
Orb weaver
(Mangora genus) |
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| Red Admiral |
Robber fly
(Diogmites genus) |
Robber fly (Promachus genus) |
Blue Dasher |
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| Robber fly
(Diogmites genus) with wasp prey |
Silver-spotted Skipper |
Same
Silver-spotted Skipper |
St. Andrew's Cross |
Toad bug |
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| Eastern
Tiger Swallowtail on a Common Buttonbush |
Another
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, also on a Common Buttonbush |
Ichneumon wasp |
Some of a
large group of water striders (Trepobates genus) on the lake |
Four of
the Trepobates genus water striders |
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Red-spotted Purples seeking sap |
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Third
Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 7/23/15
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| Female Zabulon Skipper |
Male Zabulon Skipper |
Swamp Milkweed Beetle |
Wolf spider
with spiderlings |
St. John's Wort |
North
Carolina Museum of Art grounds, Raleigh, Wake County, NC 7/17/15
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| Common Buckeye |
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail |
Same Eastern Tiger Swallowtail |
Orange Sulphur |
Male Sachem |
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| Painted Skimmer |
Great Blue Heron |
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Prairie
Ridge Ecostation, Raleigh, Wake County, NC 7/17/15
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| Common Buckeye,
on Rattlesnake Master |
Another
Common Buckeye, on Mountain Mint |
Variegated Fritillary |
Another
Variegated Fritillary |
Leafhopper
(Oncometopia genus) nymph |
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| Painted Skimmer |
Aphids and
their exuviae |
Horace's Duskywing |
A Common
Buckeye on Mountain Mint |
Green June Beetle |
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| Common Bladderwort flower (Utricularia macrorhiza) |
Mating
Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetles |
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North
Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, NC 7/16/15
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| Delta
Flower Beetles mating |
Green Anole |
Ailanthus
Webworm Moth |
Blue Dasher |
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| Delta
Flower Beetle |
Gray Hairstreak |
Green Frog
(partially submerged, in the aquatic plant exhibit) |
Hog Peanut
flowers (in the wooded trail outside the gardens) |
Micrathena sagittata |
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| Lamb's Ears |
Pipevine Swallowtail |
Spot-winged
Glider (Pantala hymenaea) |
Fowler's Toad |
Wasp and Ailanthus Webworm Moth
on Rattlesnake Master |
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| Tachinid flies |
Wasp |
Another wasp |
Watershield
flower |
Pipevine Swallowtail |
Mullein Foxglove (Dasistoma
macrophylla) |
Third
Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 7/15/15
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| Red Admiral |
Ichneumon wasp |
Male Great
Blue Skimmer |
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Jordan
Lake Gamelands (east of 751), Chatham County, NC 7/12/15
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| Ringed Assassin
Bug (Pselliopus cinctus) nymph with two acanaloniid planthopper
nymphs |
Toad bug |
Male
Eastern Pondhawk |
Robber fly |
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| Male midge |
Amber on a
pine tree |
Antmimic
spider (Castaneira longipalpa) |
Spined
micrathena |
Female
Great Blue Skimmer |
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| Robber fly |
Fish
apparently attacking a water boatman. Yes, this type of
predation is apparently
well-known, according to a guide by
the Missouri Department of Water Conservation. |
A Horace's
Duskywing and an Ailanthus Webworm Moth on a Common Buttonbush
composite flower |
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| Fly,
aquatic snails and other forms of life |
Clamshells,
possibly showing human intervention |
Eastern
Tailed-Blue, with spider exuvia |
The lake
itself |
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| Sunflower |
Leafhopper |
Slaty Skimmer |
Long-legged fly |
Another Slaty Skimmer |
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| Female
Great Blue Skimmer |
Red Admiral |
Same Red Admiral |
Grasshopper
making itself at home on this leaf |
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Durham,
NC 7/11/15
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| Broad-nosed
weevil, maybe an Asiatic Oak Weevil |
Red-headed Bush Cricket |
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Durham,
NC 7/10/15
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| Wasp attacking a horse fly |
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Jordan
Lake Gamelands (east of 751), Chatham County, NC 7/8/15
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| Southern
Bee Killer, a robber fly (Mallophora orcina) with bumblebee prey |
Same
Southern Bee Killer |
Horace's
Duskywing? Note the little flower (unable to ID). |
Teneral
Eastern Pondhawk |
Adult male
Eastern Pondhawk (with some teneral green on his head.) |
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| Fowler's Toad |
Ground beetle |
Horace's
Duskywing on unidentifiable flower |
Entrance to
a bumblebee nest |
Bumblebee |
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| Toad bug,
well-camouflaged |
Teneral
Widow Skimmer in flight |
Slaty Skimmer in flight |
Trees/bushes in Jordan Lake |
Spider wasp |
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| Teneral
male Common Whitetail |
Male Great Blue Skimmer |
The pond
connecting with Jordan Lake |
Water Primroses in the pond |
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Third
Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 7/6/15
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| Male
Basilica Spider |
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Third
Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 7/5/15
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| Bee fly |
Hackberry Emperor |
Same
Hackberry Emperor |
Grasshopper nymph |
Dead Eastern Amberwing |
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| Flower
longhorn beetle |
Praying
Mantis |
Grasshopper
nymph |
Snout moth |
Shield-backed katydid |
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| Rose
Mallow, in the Hibiscus genus |
Pearl Crescent |
Weevils |
Silktree |
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| Blue-gray
Gnatcatcher with prey |
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Durham, NC 7/4/15
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| Eastern
Gray Squirrel |
Flower longhorn beetle
(Typocerus velutinus) |
Orchard Spider |
American House Spider |
Longhorn
beetle caught in web |
Durham, NC 7/1/15
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| Jumping
spider (Phidippus genus) |
Leafhopper
nymph (Coelidia olitoria) |
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