Durham, NC 7/31/16
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| Sundog | Same sundog, different perspective | Male Common Whitetail | Least Skipper | Male Blue Dasher |
Durham, NC 7/29/16
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| Corn Earworm (Helicoverpa zea) | Ocola Skipper | Little Glassywing | Northern Cricket Frog | Male Citrine Forktail |
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| Little Glassywing? | Gray Catbird | Fly with strange abdomen | Female Sachem | Planes very close together |
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| Green Treefrog | Male Fiery Skipper |
Durham, NC 7/28/16
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| Blue Dasher |
Durham, NC 7/26/16
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| Male Blue Dasher | Common Buckeye |
Durham, NC 7/24/16
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| Male Eastern Bluebird | Male and female Eastern Bluebird | Common Grackle, maybe | Silver-spotted Skipper on Pickerelweed (Pontederia cordata) | Ocola Skipper on Pickerelweed (Pontederia cordata) |
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| Female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | Halloween Pennant | Same Halloween Pennant | Same Halloween Pennant |
Durham, NC 7/21/16
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| Bowl-and-Doily Spider | Same Bowl-and-Doily Spider | Long-legged fly | Planthopper | Wolf spider with newborns |
Durham, NC 7/20/16
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| Female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail on Pickerelweed | Same Eastern Tiger Swallowtail on Pickerelweed | Silver-spotted Skipper | Teneral Blue Dasher | Damselfly |
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| Dog-day cicada | Lynx spider | Water striders |
Durham, NC 7/19/16
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| Leafhopper (Osbornellus genus) |
Durham, NC 7/18/16
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| True Katydid | Wreckage from our last flooding rain | Eastern Mud Turtle |
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| A bat, seen at 8:42 pm | Another bat |
Durham, NC 7/17/16
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| Common Green Darner | Same Common Green Darner with its abdomen in the water | Male Eastern Amberwing | Familiar Bluet | Same Familiar Bluet |
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| Male Fiery Skipper on Pickerelweed | Male Great Blue Skimmer | Another male Great Blue Skimmer, on grass far away | Green June Beetle | Minnow |
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| Predaceous diving beetle (swimming very fast), Copelatus genus | Male Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | Fiery Skipper on Pickerelweed |
Durham, NC 7/15/16
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| Mantidfly (Zeugomantispa minuta) | Red-headed Bush Cricket | Same Red-headed Bush Cricket | Large Milkweed Bug | Ichneumon wasp |
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| Beetle | Yellow-collared Scape Moth | Six-spotted Fishing Spider | May Beetle | Teneral Eastern Pondhawk |
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| Cobweb spider | Same cobweb spider | Cricket | Funnel web spider |
Durham, NC 7/13/16
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| Green lacewing larva. Image somewhat damaged by a rogue feature in Photoshop CC: the extra JPEG options/Image Quality step. The default value somewhat switched to the smallest possible, reducing what should have been a 500 KB to an 80 KB one, resulting in a horribly pixelated image, which I overlooked because I got in the habit of just hitting "save" twice. I spent about 2 hours restoring it using the Smudge Tool. | Frog in a drainage conduit at 10:56 am, and it was very hot. | Heal-All (Prunella vulgaris) | Zabulon Skipper |
Durham, NC 7/11/16
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| Acanaloniid planthopper nymph | Teneral male Common Whitetail | Joe Pye Weed | Pachygronthid bug | Thread-waisted wasp on Water Hemlock |
Boone, Watauga County, NC 7/9/16
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| Killdeer in a puddle | This killdeer kept coming closer | ...and closer | ...and still closer | and gave me a nice lateral view. |
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| Male Northern Cardinal | Song Sparrow in a Norwegian spruce | American Robin after a good deal of preening | Male American Goldfinch | Mourning Dove |
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| Red-winged Blackbird | Same Red-winged Blackbird | Common Starling | Cabbage White | Another Cabbage White |
Boone Gardens, Watauga County, NC 7/7/16
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| Bee (Megachile sculpturalis) | Cuckoo wasp | Dogbane Beetle | Dragonfly nymph | Flower fly |
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| Ichneumon wasp | Large Milkweed Beetle | Female Sachem | Spreadwing (Lestes genus) | Sweat Bee on Purple Coneflower |
Boone, NC 7/8/16
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| Sunrise |
Tanawha Trail, Avery County, NC 7/8/16
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| Assassin Bug (Rhiginia cruciata) | Hangingfly (Hylobittacus apicalis) | Bug | Beetle | Crane fly |
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| Moth | Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum genus) |
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| Lily family | Mushroom | Rhododendron | Scorpion fly | Striped Wintergreen (Chimaphila maculata) |
Moses Cone Memorial Park, Watauga County, NC 7/8/16
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| Red Milkweed Beetle | Dark-eyed Junco | British Soldiers | Bee | Tiny beetle on Queen Anne's Lace |
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| Clouded Sulphur | Northern Crescent | Same Northern Crescent | Fritillary | Mystery bird |
Boone, Watauga County, NC 7/7/16
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| Song Sparrow | Stonefly | Red-winged Blackbird singing | Another Red-winged Blackbird | Red-winged Blackbird |
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| Marsh flower | St. John's Wort | Chicory | Carpenter bee on Horsenettle | Red Milkweed Beetle |
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| Flower fly (Toxomerus genus) | Flower fly | Flower fly | Oriental Beetle (Exomala orientalis) | Boone Gardens |
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| Killdeer | Male American Goldfinch |
Boone, Watauga County, NC 7/6/16
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| Green Lacewing | Blowfly | Fly (Genus Zodion, Myopinae subfamily) on Oxeye Daisy petal. Genus ID thanks to Bob Biagi. Subfamily ID thanks to Vassily Belov. | Tiny beetle | Woolly aphid |
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| Ladybug beetle (Cycloneda munda) | Oriental Beetle (Exomala orientalis) | Plume moth | American Robin | Oriental Beetle (Exomala orientalis) |
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| Snout moth | Springtail | Wasp | Tractor remains | Barn |
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| Leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea) | Flower fly |
Durham, NC 7/5/16
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| Swamp Milkweed Beetle | Longhorn beetle exuvia | Flatid planthopper | Flower longhorn beetle | Male Micrathena orb weaver |
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| Beetle larva | Green lacewing larva | Same green lacewing larva | Large Milkweed Bug | Red-headed Bush Cricket |
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| Cocoon | Seedbox flower |
Durham, NC 7/4/16
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| Chipping Sparrow with insect prey | Silver-spotted Skipper |
Durham, NC 7/2/16
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| Northern Cricket Frog | Another (bigger) Northern Cricket Frog (on my shoe, a Croc) | Mallard family among Water Primroses | Sleeping wasp | Male Eastern Tiger Swallowtail on Purple Coneflower |
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| Male Common Green Darner |
Durham, NC 7/1/16
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| Bullfrog | Northern Cricket Frog | Same Northern Cricket Frog | Slaty Skimmer on Pickerelweed |