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Durham, NC 7/28/18
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Appalachian Brown |
Argiope aurantia (dorsal view) |
Argiope aurantia (ventral view) |
Male Common Whitetail |
Little Glassywing |
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Nursery Web Spider |
Silvery Checkerspot |
Silvery Checkerspot on Joe Pye Weed |
Swamp Milkweed Beetle |
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Durham, NC 7/27/18
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Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle |
American Black Elderberry (Sambucus nigra) |
Male Great Blue Skimmer |
Green Lynx Spider |
Mottled Tortoise Beetle (Deloyala guttata) |
Durham, NC 7/21/18
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Flies |
Halloween Pennant |
Katydid |
Slaty Skimmer |
Eggs of a type found frequently on cattails these days |
Durham, NC 7/20/18
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Ambush bug |
Ambush bug nymph |
Ambush bug nymph |
Arabesque orb weaver |
Leaffooted bug nymph |
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Ambush rug |
Click beetle |
Spotted Ladybug Beetle eggs |
Sycamore leaf |
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Pitt County Arboretum, Greenville, Pitt County, NC 7/14/18
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American Beauty |
Blue Dasher |
Common Buckeye |
Egg sac |
Pipevine Swallowtail |
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Pipevine Swallowtail |
Sleepy Orange |
Variegated Fritillary |
Viceroy |
Same Viceroy |
River Park North, Greenville, Pitt County, NC 7/14/18
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Double-crested Cormorant |
Teneral Great Blue Skimmer |
Pearl Crescent |
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Downtown Washington, Beaufort County, NC 7/13/18
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Barn Swallow on American Lotus seedhead |
Deserted boat |
American Lotus flower (Nelumbo lutea) |
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Goose Creek State Park, Washington, Beaufort County, NC 7/13/18
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Male Great Blue Skimmer? |
Female House Finch |
Male Needham's Skimmer |
Female Needham's Skimmer |
Palamedes Swallowtail |
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Nutria |
Same Nutria |
Question Mark |
Swamp Loosestrife |
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Greenville, Pitt County, NC 7/12/18
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Field Cricket |
Male Fiery Skipper |
Female Halloween Pennant |
Same female Halloween Pennant |
Rice Stink Bug |
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Stink bug, possibly showing signs of recent molt |
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Pitt County Arboretum, Greenville, NC 7/12/18
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Black Swallowtail caterpillar |
Male Fiery Skipper |
Another male Fiery Skipper, on Lantana |
Hibiscus genus |
Pipevine Swallowtail |
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Silver-spotted Skipper |
Sleepy Orange on Lantana |
Wasp (Campsomeris plumipes) |
Wasp on blooming Fennel |
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River Park North, Greenville, Pitt County, NC 7/12/18
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Male Northern Cardinal |
Cicada Killer digging a nest |
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Eastern Amberwing |
Female Great Blue Skimmer |
Variegated Fritillary |
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Durham, NC 7/10/18
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Acanaloniid planthopper nymph |
Aphids, with some exuviae |
Beetle |
Crab spider |
Mangora genus spider |
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Spirobolid millipede |
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Durham, NC 7/9/18
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Ambush bug nymph |
Leafhopper |
Moth |
Another moth |
Two-lined Froghopper |
Mason Farm Biological Reserve, Orange County, NC 7/8/18
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Arrow-shaped Micrathena (Micrathena sagittata) |
Common Buckeye |
Female Common Whitetail |
Dancer |
Horace's Duskywing |
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Jack-in-the-Pulpit with fruits |
Little Wood Satyr |
Orchard Spider |
Rose Mallow (Hibiscus moscheutos) |
Rose Mallows |
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Sabatia angularis |
Silvery Checkerspot |
Female Sachem or Fiery Skipper |
Turkey Vulture |
Virginia Mountain Mint |
Durham, NC 7/8/18
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Joe Pye Weed |
Long-legged fly |
Red-headed Bush Cricket nymph |
Same Red-headed bush Cricket nymph |
Male Slaty Skimmer |
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Spider wasp |
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Boone Gardens, Boone, Watauga County, NC 7/2/18
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American Lady |
Megachilid bee |
Another Megachilid bee |
Bug |
Flower longhorn beetle |
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Fly |
Jack-in-the-Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum) with faded spathe |
Red Milkweed Beetle |
Treehopper (Enchenopa binotata complex) |
Trumpet Creeper (Campsis radicans) |
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Two-lined Froghopper |
Mystery wildflower |
Spotted Loosestrife (Lysimachia punctata) |
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Boone, NC 7/1/18
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Leaf beetle (Brachypnoea genus). ID thanks to Blaine Mathison. |
Chicory |
Spotted Cucumber Beetle |
Mystery wildflower |
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