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Durham,
NC 6/30/14
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Chrysanthemum Lace Bug |
Bee fly |
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Boone,
Watauga County, NC 6/28/14
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| Holly Borer
(Synanthedone kathyae) |
Male Ebony Jewelwing |
Fly |
Leafhopper |
Pines |
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| Mystery plant |
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Boone
Gardens, Watauga County, NC 6/28/14
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| Bumblebee
and Japanese Beetle on hibiscus |
Bee on daisy |
Great
Spangled Fritillary on Butterfly Weed |
Little Glassywing |
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| Meadow Fritillary |
Plant Bug
(Neurocolpus nubilus) |
Crossline Skipper |
Water strider |
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| Orchard Spider |
Little
Glassywing on Common Milkweed |
Great
Spangled Fritillary on Butterfly Weed |
Jack-in-the-Pulpit |
Cabbage White |
Tanawha Trail, Milepost 304, NC 6/27/14
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| Crab spider on daisy |
Bug on daisy |
Fire Pink |
Fly Poison |
Fungi and moss |
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| Galax |
Hangingfly |
Same hangingfly |
Moth |
Flame Azalea |
Boone,
Watauga County, NC 6/27/14
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| American Robin |
Song Sparrow |
Wild Onion |
Crown Vetch |
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| Four-flower
Yellow Loosestrife
(Lysimachia quadriflora) |
Mini-garden |
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Boone,
Watauga County, NC 6/26/14
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| Ambush bug
(rear view) |
Ambush bug
(side view) |
Asian
Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle with aphid prey |
Plant bug |
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| Flowers
(Spiraea japonica). ID thanks to Eric Hunt. |
Forget-Me-Not |
Tortricid
moth hanging from grass flowers |
American Robin |
Woolly Aphid |
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| Song Sparrow |
Same Song
Sparrow, come down to investigate me |
St. John's Wort |
Tachinid fly |
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Durham,
NC 6/25/14
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| Planthopper
(Mysidia mississippiensis) |
Moth (Artace genus) |
Stink bug |
Leafhopper
(Osbornellus genus). Photo taken at night. |
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prey |
Three of
the 11 Mysidia mississippiensis planthoppers that I saw on this
leaf |
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Durham,
NC 6/24/14
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| Male Great
Blue Skimmer |
Acanaloniid
planthopper |
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Durham,
NC 6/23/14
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| Derbid
planthopper (Mysidia mississippiensis) |
Black Swallowtail caterpillar |
Wheel Bug
nymph (late instar) |
Chloropid fly |
Wolf spider
with offspring |
Durham,
NC 6/22/14
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| Male
American Goldfinch |
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Durham,
NC 6/21/14
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| Leafhopper
nymph (Oncometopia orbona) |
Seed bug (Xyonysius genus)
nymph.
Tentative ID thanks to
Vassily Belov. |
Stink bug |
Mosquito
that tried to bite me |
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Penny's
Bend Nature Preserve, Durham County, NC 6/20/14
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| Dogbane
Leaf Beetle |
Mating Yellow-collared Scape
Moths |
Yellow-collared Scape Moth |
Mystery bird |
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| Fowler's Toad |
Leaffooted
bug nymph |
Weevil on a daisy |
White-lined
Burrowing Bug |
Pipevine Swallowtail |
Durham,
NC 6/19/14
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| Green lacewing larva |
Inch-long
mantis nymph |
Probably a
teneral Great Blue Skimmer |
Rapidly moving spider |
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| Horse fly |
Same horse fly |
Leaffooted
bug nymph (middle instar) |
Flower fly
on Queen Anne's Lace |
Long-legged fly |
North Carolina Botanical Garden, Orange County,
NC 6/18/14
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Mangora genus |
Fungus |
Earwig |
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Durham,
NC 6/16/14
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| Rice Stink Bug |
Planthopper nymph |
Male Widow Skimmer |
Turkey Vulture |
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Durham,
NC 6/15/14
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bird, sounded like a Brown Thrasher and was relatively large,
but the beak is wrong. |
Same bird |
Ladybug beetle (Mulsantina picta). ID thanks to
Vassily Belov.
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Channeled Valgus (Valgus canaliculatus) |
Male
Mallard-American Black Duck hybrid |
Flatid
planthopper nymph |
Another,
smaller, planthopper nymph |
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| Great Blue Heron |
Ladybug
larva turning into a pupa |
Running crab spider |
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Durham,
NC 6/14/14
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| Buffalo Treehopper nymph |
Ant mimic
jumping spider |
Leafhopper nymph |
Carolina
Petunia |
Aphids |
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| Orchard Spider |
Slaty Skimmer |
Chloropid fly |
Female
Brown-headed Cowbird |
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Durham, NC 6/13/14
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| Eggs and a mite |
Millipede |
Male Orchard
Spider (dorsal) |
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Durham,
NC 6/12/14
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| Leafhopper nymph |
Another
leafhopper nymph |
Flower fly |
Scoliid wasp |
Jumping
spider (male Hentzia palmarum) |
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| Mystery jumping spider |
Cricket |
Clubtail |
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Durham, NC 6/11/14
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| Ground Skink |
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Durham,
NC 6/9/14
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| Mirid bug
nymph |
Flatid
planthopper nymph |
Flea beetle |
Katydid nymph |
Firefly pupa: Pyractomena genus. |
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| Spotted
Jewelweed |
Paper wasp |
Bess Beetle |
Katydid |
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Durham, NC 6/8/14
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Wedge-shaped beetle on a Black-eyed Susan |
Same
wedge-shaped beetle |
Pearl Crescent |
Antmimic spider |
Spittlebug
(picked up by accident) |
Raleigh (downtown), Wake County, NC 6/7/14
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| American Lady |
Same American Lady |
A mural of
former U.S. President Andrew Johnson |
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North Carolina Museum of Art (grounds), Raleigh,
Wake County, NC 6/7/14
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| Widow Skimmer |
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Prairie Ridge Ecological Station, Raleigh, Wake
County, NC 6/7/14
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Seven-spotted Ladybug Beetle |
Tarnished Plant Bug on wild
onion |
Tumbling flower beetle |
Warty Leaf Beetle |
Indian Pink
(Spigelia Marilandica) |
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| Coreopsis, Daisy Fleabane, Red Clover flowers |
Jumping
spider (Phidippus clarus) |
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Durham, NC 6/6/14
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| Plant bug |
Bumblebee |
Flower fly
(Orthonevra genus) |
Same flower
fly |
Japanese
Beetles and a moth |
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| Katydid |
Male Ebony Jewelwing |
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Durham, NC 6/5/14
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| Jumping spider (female Colonus sylvanus) |
The same
jumping spider |
Grasshopper
nymph |
Hoverfly
(Toxomerus genus) on False Dandelion |
Billbug (Sphenophorus genus), playing dead. ID thanks to Steve Scholnick. |
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Durham, NC 6/3/14
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| Newly hatched bug nymphs |
Silver-spotted Skipper |
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Durham, NC 6/1/14
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| Virginia Hoverfly |
Flower fly
(Toxomerus genus) on a False Dandelion |
Crane fly |
Jumping
spider (Synemosyna formica) |
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