Durham, NC 6/30/17
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| Green Treefrog | Same Green Treefrog | Mydas Fly | Arabesque Orb Weaver | Pearl Crescent |
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| Pearl Crescent | Picture-winged fly | Planthopper (Mysidia mississippiensis) | Young Red-headed Bush Cricket nymph |
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| Silver-spotted Skipper | Spotted Ladybug Beetle | Stink bug on Pickerelweed | Stink bug nymph | Tarnished Plant bug and Daisy Fleabane |
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| Tarnished Plant Bug on Daisy Fleabane | Weevil | Acanaloniid planthopper nymph | Two acanaloniid planthopper nymphs | Apple Maggot |
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| Billbug on Black-eyed Susan petal | Teneral Blue Dasher | Blue Dasher | Dwarf spider |
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| Tachinid fly | Grasshopper nymph | Female Great Blue Skimmer |
Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, Chapel Hill, Orange County, NC 6/28/17
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| Oxeye Daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) | Dew on grass | More dew on grass | Ebony Jewelwing | Orb weaver (Mangora genus) |
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| Crossline Skipper? | Trailing Wild Bean (Strophostyles helvola) | Treehopper (Acutalis tartarea) | Tussock moth caterpillar | Spider web, with dew |
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| Dew-laden spider web on grass | Another view of the spider web |
Mason Farm Biological Reserve, Chapel Hill, Orange County, NC 6/27/17
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| Female Mocha Emerald (Somatochlora linearis). ID thanks to William Edwards. | Same Mocha Emerald | Virginia Mountain-Mint (Pycnanthemum virginianum) flowers and buds | Common Water Strider | Wasp |
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| Male Widow Skimmer | Common Buckeye | Carolina Satyr (dorsal view) | Teneral Great Blue Skimmer |
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| Horace's Duskywing | Another Horace's Duskywing | Jack-in-the-pulpit, with seedhead | Meadow beauty | Acanaloniid planthopeer nymph |
Durham, NC 6/25/17
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| Acanaloniid planthopper nymph | Mating planthoppers (Mysidia mississippiensis) | Juvie male Eastern Bluebird | Handsome fungus beetle (Stenotarsus hispidus). ID thanks to Vassily Belov. |
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| Leaffooted bug nymph | Stink bug nymph | Swamp Milkweed Beetle |
Durham, NC 6/23/17
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| Leaf beetle (Colaspis genus). ID thanks to Brad Barnd. | Leafhopper (Graphocephala versuta) | Leafhopper (Sibovia occatoria) | Planthopper (Bothriocera genus), in the Cixiidae family. ID thanks to Vassily Belov. |
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| Red Admiral | Male slaty Skimmer | Swamp Milkweed Beetle | Mating Swamp Milkweed Beetles |
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| Acanaloniid planthopper nymph | Tiny ambush bug on a Black-eyed Susan | Aphids and exuviae | Aphids; note the adults surrounding the young one. | A bumblebee found on a paved trail, which I removed to the leaf of a tree. |
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| Red-headed Bush Cricket | Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) flowers near swamp | More Buttonbush flowers | Cocklebur Weevil | Female Common Whitetail |
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| Elongated springtail | Flatid planthopper nymph, without fuzz. | Fly | Green lacewing larve | Katydid nymph |
Museum of Life and Science, Durham, NC 6/18/17
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| Groundhog (Marmota monax) | Same Groundhog | Mystery bird in Butterfly House | Mystery bird pair | Female Northern Cardinal |
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| Female Northern Cardinal | Crab floating in lake | Crayfish (part of exhibit) | Horace's Duskywing | Great Blue Skimmer |
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| Gray Catbird | Wasp (Scolia nobilitata) | Silver-spotted Skipper |
Durham, NC 6/17/17
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| Mating Rambur's Forktails | Orb weaver spinning web | Same orb weaver | Northern Mockingbird | Dion Skipper |
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| Dion Skipper | Blue Jay |
Jordan Lake, Chatham County, NC 6/15/17
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| Red-spotted Purple (dorsal view) | Question Mark | Red-spotted Purple (ventral view) | Slaty Skimmer | Another Slaty Skimmer |
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| Spider wasp digging | More digging | Yet more digging | The wasp has retrieved a spherical object | And carries it away |
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| Tachinid fly | Toad bug | Virginia Hoverfly | Same Virginia Hoverfly | Same Virginia Hoverfly on a Common Buttonbush |
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| Water boatman | Another water boatman with mysterious circular motion | Wildflower on vine | Wolf spider and toad bug | Wolf spider on feather |
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| Antmimic spider | Aquatic beetle and winged insect in trouble | Virginia Hoverfly on a Common Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) | Common Buttonbushes, not blooming | Wolf spider and Northern Cricket Frog |
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| Dragonfly | Same dragonfly | Male Eastern Amberwing | Stilt-legged fly | Grasshopper nymph |
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| Ground beetle (Bembidion genus) | Mating ground beetles (Bembidion genus) | Mystery insect | One view of the lake | Another view of the lake |
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| Leafcutter bee | Leaffooted bug | Moth | Orchard spider |
Durham, NC 6/14/17
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| Cixiid planthopper | Crane fly with mites | Green lacewing struggling at outdoor light | Another green lacewing | Moth |
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| Wasp | Wasp |
Durham, NC 6/13/17 (night)
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| Leafhopper (maybe Alebra wahlbergi) | Leafhopper (Gyponana genus) | Lightning bug beetle (Photuris pennsylvanica) | Moth | Same moth |
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| Planthopper | Beetle | I'm guessing that this is a march fly. |
Durham, NC 6/13/17 (day)
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| Derbid planthopper (Mysidia mississippiensis) | Flower fly | Bush katydid nymph (Scudderia genus) | Leafhopper (Graphocephala versuta) |
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| Leafhopper (Sibovia occatoria) | Another Sibovia occatoria | Small mantis nymph | Rice Stink Bug | Teneral Blue Dasher |
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| Beetle | Mating beetles | Moth caterpillar |
Durham, NC 6/10/17
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| Aphid, with injured wings |
Boone Gardens, Watauga County, NC 6/8/17
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| Froghopper (Aphrophora saratogensis). ID thanks to Ken Wolgemuth. | Lanternless lightning bug (Lucidota atra) | Leafhopper (Scaphytopius genus, subgenus Cloanthus), ID thanks to John S. Ascher. | Leafhopper (Graphocephala versuta.) |
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| Long-legged fly | Moth | Catalpa flower | Varied Carpet Beetle | Weevil |
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| Crab spider | Flower fly (Toxomerus genus) | Flower longhorn beetle, probably a victim of a recent spider attack |
Boone Greenway, Watauga County, NC 6/8/17
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| Common Self-heal (Prunella vulgaris) | Eastern Phoebe | Song Sparrow | Song Sparrow | Wildflowers |
Julian Price Park, Watauga County, NC 6/7/17
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| Partridgeberry blooms (Mitchella repens) | Swimming snake | Tadpole with a little leg showing | Another tadpole |
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| Penstemon | Beetle | Golden-backed Snipe Fly | Leaf beetle | Freshly molted leafhopper nymph |
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| Millipede |
Tanawha Trail, Caldwell County, NC 6/7/17
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| Mystery beetle | Flame Azalea (Rhododendron calendulaceum) | Gray's Lily | Another Gray's Lily | Plant bug |
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| Female scorpion fly |
Moses H. Cone Memorial Park, Watauga County, NC 6/6/17
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| Chipmunk | Crab spider | Dark-eyed Junco | Eastern Tailed-Blue | Fly Poison |
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| Jack-in-the-pulpit bloom | View of the lake below from the entrance | Water lilies in the lake | Owlet moth, near the entrance | Rustic Borer |
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| Scorpion fly | Soldier beetle (Podabrus fayi) | St. John's Wort (Hypericum genus) | Stink bug | Swan |
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| Water lilies | Bowman's Root (Gillenia trifoliata) | Assassin bug with prey? | Rustic Borer beetle |
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| Cabbage White | Caddisfly maybe | Moses Cone mansion seen from the far end of the lake | Some water lilies up close |
Boone, NC 6/6/17
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| American Goldfinch | Singing Gray Catbird | Branch of Norwegian Spruce | Cones of Norwegian Spruce | Oakleaf Hydrangea |
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| Eastern Phoebe | Same Eastern Phoebe, singing | Same Eastern Phoebe, again singing | Male Red-winged Blackbird | Same male Red-winged Blackbird |
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| American Robin | Female American Robin with nesting material | Male American Robin addressing female | Mating attempt | Vine flowers |
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| Male Ebony Jewelwing | Fire Pink (Silene virginica) | Snapping Turtle |
Boone, NC 6/5/17
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| Song Sparrow | Another Song Sparrow | Song Sparrow | Summer Azure | Cabbage White |
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| Fledgling American Robin | Skipper, maybe a female Sachem | Another Song Sparrow | Song Sparrow |
Durham, NC 6/3/17
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| Elongated springtail | Green lacewing nymph | Katydid nymph | Leafhopper nymph (probably Scaphoideus genus) | Same leafhopper nymph |
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| Common Mosquito, blood-filled | Moth | Pselliopus cinctus with prey | Red-headed Bush Cricket | Beetle |
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| Cocklebur Weevil | Same Cocklebur Weevil | Crab spider |
Mason Farm Biological Reserve, Chapel Hill, Orange County, NC 6/2/17
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| Barred Owl | Same Barred Owl | Teneral Blue Dasher | Teneral Blue Dasher | Eastern Box Turtle |
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| Carolina Petunia (Ruellia caroliniensis) | Flea beetle | Snipe fly | Flower fly | Froghopper |
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| Teneral Great Blue Skimmer | Green Lynx Spider | Helmet flower (Scutellaria integrifolia) | Ladybug beetle pupa, after predation | Leaffooted bug |
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| Red Admiral | Spotted Jewelweed bud | Stink bug nymph (color in question) | Another stink bug nymph attacking a ladybug beetle pupa |