Durham, NC 6/30/16 (evening), mostly at or near pond
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| Male Northern Cardinal | Same male Northern Cardinal | Carolina Wren | Same Carolina Wren | Northern Cricket Frog, at the pond |
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| Northern Cricket Frog | Mating damselflies | Least Skipper | Picture-winged fly and marsh fly | Stink bug |
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| The web of this long-jawed orb weaver is progressing well; you can see the cross-strands in the middle and far from the middle, with nothing in between. | An early stage of the web construction, when the anchoring strands were attached to Pickerelweed plants and clumps of silk tie them together | This center part, shown much later | The spider itself, shown at the web center early in the process |
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| Even with the center constructed, the spider is still tugging at the clumped silk. | A key stage in that process. The spider isn't spinning, but apparently rearranging. | On the other hand, you can see spinning here (earlier) | Here, the spider is anchoring one strand of the web to a Pickerelweed leaf. | The spider anchors another strand on a Pickerelweed inflorescence. |
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| Apparently it isn't enough to have the radiating strands each attached to a plant; extra strands hold the plants steady. |
Durham, NC 6/30/16 (morning)
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| Two-lined Froghopper | Sweat Bee | Stink bug nymph | Stink bug | Spotted Ladybug Beetle on Queen Anne's Lace |
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| Sharpshooter (Oncometopia orbona) | Same sharpshooter | Sachem or Fiery Skipper | Pond | Pond (close-up): Water Primroses and Pickerelweed |
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| Pickerelweed (Pontederia cordata) | Leaffooted Bug | Tiny mating leaf beetles (Paria genus). ID thank to Blaine Mathison. | Dragonfly | Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle pupa |
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| Northern Cardinal | Burdock Beetle (Leptinotarsa juncta) | Tiny bug nymph | Bug exuvia | Buffalo Treehopper |
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| Teneral Blue Dasher | Male Blue Dasher | Male Blue Dasher | Floating Primrose-Willow (Ludwigia peploides) with sweat bee |
Durham, NC 6/27/16
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| Appalachian Brown | Sleeping bumblebee | Male Citrine Forktail | Crab spider (Xysticus genus) |
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| Crane fly | Female Eastern Tailed-blue | Flesh fly | Fly | Moth |
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| Same moth as above | Male Purple Martin | Purple Martins | Male Rambur's Forktail | May beetle? |
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| Skipper, somewhat like a Little Glassywing or a Dun Skipper | Spotted Ladybug Beetle | Turkey Vulture | Two-lined Froghopper | Wasp |
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| Weevil | Juvie or female Eastern Pondhawk | Cabbage White |
Durham, NC 6/26/16
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| Male Slaty Skimmer | Leafhopper (Graphocephala versuta) | Female Eastern Amberwing | Male midge | Dion Skipper |
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| Male Blue Dasher |
Durham, NC 6/24/16
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| Planthopper (Haplaxius pictifrons) | Another planthopper (also Haplaxius pictifrons) | Bug (Oedancala genus) on sedge | Another bug (Oedancala genus) on same sedge | Fly |
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| Plant bug (Phytocoris tibialis) | Leafhopper nymph (Oncometopia orbona) | Orb weaver | Red-headed Bush Cricket | Another Red-headed Bush Cricket |
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| Bug | Crab spider | Grass flowers | Spotted Ladybug Beetle with prey | Two-lined Froghopper |
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| Leafhopper (Graphocephala versuta) | Leafhopper |
Durham, NC 6/22/16
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| Red-banded Hairstreak | Acanaloniid planthopper nymph | Apple Maggot | Firefly beetle | Little fruit fly |
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| Cobweb spider | Leafhopper (Sibovia occatoria) | Leafhopper (Graphocephala versuta) | Paper wasp (Polistes genus) with food | Spotted Cucumber Beetle |
Jordan Lake, Chatham County, NC 6/20/16
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| Spicebush Swallowtail | Same Spicebush Swallowtail | Water scavenger beetle (Tropisternus collaris) | Same water scavenger beetle | Same water scavenger beetle |
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| Damselfly | Basilica spider | Blue Mud Wasp (Chalybion californicum) | Male Eastern Pondhawk | Female or teneral Eastern Pondhawk |
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| Ox-eye Daisies (in the parking lot) | Long-legged fly | Great Blue Heron | Horace's Duskywing | Far end of this part of Jordan Lake |
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| Arabesque Orb Weaver | Slaty Skimmer | Water strider | Whirligig beetle |
Durham, NC 6/19/16
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| Flatid planthopper nymph | Same flatid planthopper | Big mosquito |
Durham, NC 6/18/16
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| Hoverfly | Tarnished Plant Bug | Spider | Cryptocephalid beetle larva | Leafhopper (Graphocephala versuta) |
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| Aphids, including one molting and another with wings | Aphids and exuviae | Female Blue Dasher | Bee attacked by what is probably a true bug |
Durham, NC 6/17/16
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| Two-lined Froghopper | Acanaloniid planthopper nymph | Aphids | Juvie Eastern Pondhawk | Aphid with dew drops |
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| Silktree flowers (Albizia julibrissin) |
Fallingwater Cascades Trail, Bedford County, VA 6/11/16
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| Crane fly (Brachypremna dispellens). ID thanks to Seth Burgess. | Jack-in-the-Pulpit | Stonecrop (Sedum ternatum) | Fly | Same mystery insect |
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| Caterpillar |
Peaks of Otter (near Abbott Lake), Bedford County, VA 6/11/16
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| Eastern Tiger Swallowtail on a daylily | Fledgling Red-winged Blackbird | Gray Catbird | Fish that came to the bridge | Fish eating |
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| Male Ebony Jewelwing | Same male Ebony Jewelwing |
Harkening Hill, Peaks of Otter, Bedford County, VA 6/10/16
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| Barn Swallow (actually, back at the lodge) | Bee | Another bee | Braconid wasp | Carpenter Bee |
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| Cabbage White | Click beetle | Crane fly | Drone fly | Male Ebony Jewelwing |
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| Tiny flower fly visiting a Virginia Spiderwort | Fly | Froghopper | Hangingfly | Orchard Spider |
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| Wood Violets? | Robber fly (Laphria sericea complex) with Golden-backed Snipe Fly prey | Robber fly with wasp prey | Common Scorpion Fly | Stonefly |
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| We reached the top of Harkening Hill! But it was only about 800 feet above the Peaks of Otter valley, so it's a hill, not a mountain. | Pink Virginia Spiderwort blooms | White-tailed Deer | Same White-tailed Deer |
Peaks of Otter, Bedford County, VA 6/9/16
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| Luna Moth | Same Luna Moth | Robber fly | Another robber fly (Laphria sericea complex). ID thanks to John S. Ascher and Ben Coulter. | White form Orange Sulphur |
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| Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium albidum) | Ant tending aphids | Butter-and-Eggs | Gray Catbird | Clouded Sulphur |
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| Flower fly (Toxomerus genus) | Another flower fly (Toxomerus genus) | Mystery fly | Fly | Golden-backed Snipe Fly |
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| Froghopper | Inchworm, standing up. I moved it to see whether it was a twig, but it stayed put. | Spider, probably an orb weaver | Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | Wildflowers |
Peaks of Otter, Bedford County, VA 6/8/16
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| Red-winged Blackbird stopping by to deliver a grasshopper to her fledgling offspring | Same fledgling Red-winged Blackbird | Barn Swallow | Golden-backed Snipe Fly | Froghopper |
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| Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | Stilt Bug | Picture-winged Fly | Moth | Leafhopper nymph |
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| Mating Locust Leafminers, one of about 5 mating pairs on a small locust tree | Male Midge | Another male midge | Hangingfly (actually 6/9/16) | Crane fly |
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| Click beetle | Chrysopid fly | American Lady | The Big Spring |
Durham, NC 6/7/16
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| Buffalo Treehopper nymph | Jumping spider (Colonus sylvanus?) | Tumbling flower beetle | Tarnished Plant Bug | Megachilid bee |
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| Same Megachilid bee | Brown lacewing with deformed left forewing and hindwing | Same brown lacewing | Damselfly | Banded Longhorn Beetle (Typocerus velutinus) |
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| Ladybug Beetle (Cycloneda munda) with aphid prey | Mystery fly | Large Milkweed Beetle | Mantis nymph | Same mantis nymph |
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| Thrip on coreopsis | Tumbling flower beetle | Weevil | Mating dancers |
Durham, NC 6/5/16
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| Wheel Bug nymph with tussock moth prey | Heal-All | Field Cricket | Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle larva |
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| Male Blue Dasher | Clubtail (maybe Black-shouldered Spinylegs) | Damselfly | Male Eastern Pondhawk | Female Eastern Tailed-Blue |
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| Pearl Crescent | Mystery dragonfly |
Durham, NC 6/4/16
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| Orange Antmimic Jumping Spider (Sarinda hentzii) | Same Orange Antmimic Jumping Spider |
Durham, NC 6/3/16
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| Carpenter Bee on Common Milkweed | Marsh fly | Jumping spider | Mystery ladybug beetle larva |
Durham, NC 6/2/16
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| Zabulon skipper pair (female on top) | Wheel Bug nymph | Weevil | Tarnished Plant Bug nymph | Silvery Checkerspot? Pearl Crescent? |
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| Tarnished Plant Bug | Southeastern Five-lined Skink (Eumeces inexpectatus) | Large spider with egg sac | Same large spider | Picture-winged fly |
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| Marsh fly | Mantis nymph | Leafhopper nymph | Green lacewing nymph, upside down | Same green lacewing nymph, upright |
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| Green June Beetle | Teneral Great Blue Skimmer | Caterpillar frass | Bee | Beetle |
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| Beetle which suddenly started playing dead when I tried to photograph it. | Common Buckeye | Ebony Bug on Daisy Fleabane | Female Northern Cardinal | Elephant Mosquito? |
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| Eastern River Cooter, swimming in the creek | Beetle | Bee | Flatid planthopper nymph |