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Durham, NC 6/29/20
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| Long-horned bee |
Picture-winged fly |
Purpletop tridens (Tridens flavus), Durham, NC, |
Eastern Cottontail Rabbit eating vegetation |
Scat of a large wild carnivore |
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| Web |
Widow Skimmer |
Aphids |
Blowfly |
Same Blowfly on wild carnivore scat |
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| Broad-headed Sharpshooter |
Female Brown-headed Cowbird |
Crabgrass (Digitaria genus) |
Eastern Gamagrass (Tripsacum dactyloides) |
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| Elongate springtail on Black-eyed Susan |
Same Elongate springtail on Black-eyed Susan |
False Dandelion |
Eastern Gamagrass (Tripsacum dactyloides) |
Great Blue Skimmer on Eastern Gamagrass |
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| Heal-all (Prunella vulgaris) |
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Durham, NC 6/28/20
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| Caterpillar on Pickerelweed |
Male Brown-headed Cowbird |
Herbwilliam (Ptilimnium capillaceum) |
Japanese Beetles |
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| Lightning bug beetle |
Eastern Cottontail Rabbit |
Spotted Ladysthumb (Persicaria maculosa) |
Spotted Ladybug Beetle larva |
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| Tussock moth caterpillar |
White Clover (Trifolium repens) |
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Durham, NC 6/24/20
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| Tiny beetle |
Flower longhorn beetle |
Herbwilliam (Ptilimnium capillaceum) |
Herbwilliam (Ptilimnium capillaceum) |
Herbwilliam (Ptilimnium capillaceum) |
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| Lacewing egg? |
Infested leaf |
Anomalous leafhopper |
Leafhopper |
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| Meadow Garlic (Allium canadense) |
Orb weaver |
Same orb weaver |
Another orb weaver |
Leaf-footed bug eggs |
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| Stilt bug |
Stink bug |
Wheel Bug nymph |
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Durham, NC 6/23/20
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| Glassy-winged Sharpshooter nymph |
Leaf-footed bug nymph |
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Durham, NC 6/22/20
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| Asiatic Dayflower (Commelina communis) |
Broad-nosed weevil |
Long-legged fly |
Male Rambur's Forktail |
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| Male Red-winged Blackbird |
Snapping Turtle |
Jumping spider |
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Durham, NC 6/21/20
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| Deformed Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta) |
Another deformed Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta) |
Another deformed Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta) |
Another Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta) |
Eastern Daisy Fleabane (Erigeron annuus) |
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| Male Northern Cardinal |
Eastern Phoebe |
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Durham, NC 6/20/20
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| Leafhopper |
Maybe another species of leafhopper |
Glassy-winged Sharpshooter (Homalodisca vitripennis) nymph |
Same Glassy-winged Sharpshooter (Homalodisca vitripennis) nymph |
Meadow Garlic (Allium canadense) |
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| Mock Strawberry (Potentilla indica) |
Polished Ladybug Beetle |
Tarnished Plant Bug nymph |
Meadow Garlic (Allium canadense) |
Tumbling flower beetle |
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| Fennel, maybe |
Asian Multicolored Ladybug Beetle |
Bee or wasp on Black-eyed Susan. Seems to have wasp mouthparts |
Same bee or wasp |
Bubbles in Third Fork Creek |
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| Cryptocephalid beetle larva |
Dogbane Hemp flowers |
False Dandelion |
Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriatica) flowers growing in a patch of woods |
Hooked Buttercup seeds |
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| Carolina Horsenettle |
Japanese Beetle |
Broadheaded Sharpshooter (Oncometopia orbona) |
Pillbug |
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| Tumbling flower beetle |
Another tumbling flower beetle (a trail bollard) |
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Durham, NC 6/17/20
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| Asiatic Dayflower (Commelina communis) |
Beetle |
Broken-backed Bug (Taylorilygus apicalis) |
Buprestid beetle |
Ebony bug |
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| False Dandelion seedhead |
Gallinipper |
Female Eastern Gammagrass |
Heal-all (Prunella vulgaris) |
Jumping spider |
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| Leafhopper nymph (Scaphoideus genus) |
Meadow Garlic (Allium canadense) |
Soldier fly |
Tarnished Plant Bug |
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Durham, NC 6/14/20
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| Black Stink Bug (Proxys punctulatis) |
Unripe Sawtooth Blackberry (Rubus argutus) fruits |
Spined Assassin Bug with earwig prey |
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| Same Spined Assassin Bug with earwig prey |
Same Spined Assassin Bug with earwig prey |
Stiff Marsh Bedstraw (Galium tinctorium), showing the variation in flower petal count |
Fedex plane flying overhead |
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| Teneral Blue Dasher |
Pickerelweed |
Stiff Marsh Bedstraw (Galium tinctorium) |
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Durham, NC 6/13/20
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| Acanaloniid planthopper nymph |
Ebony bug (Galgupha genus) |
Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) |
Channeled Valgus |
Green lacewing larva |
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| Same green lacewing larva |
Inchworm on Black-eyed Susan |
Meadow Garlic (Allium canadense) |
Mesh web weaver |
American Red Raspberry (Rubus idaeus) immature fruits |
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| Sourwood (Oxydendrum arboreum) |
Stiff Marsh Bedstraw (Galium tinctorium) |
Same Stiff Marsh Bedstraw (Galium tinctorium) |
Another Stiff Marsh Bedstraw (Galium tinctorium). Note that one flower has three petals and the other, four. |
Swamp Milkweed Beetle |
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| Adult Tarnished Plant Bug |
Late instar Tarnished Plant Bug nymph |
Earlier instar Plant Bug nymph |
Tarnished Plant Bug and mystery insect |
Weevil |
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| Silktree flowers |
Silktree |
Lizard's Tails |
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Durham, NC 6/12/20
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| Mystery buttercup |
Carolina Petunia (Ruellia caroliniensis) |
Common Whitetail |
Heal-all (Prunella vulgaris) |
Ladybug Beetle (Cycloneda munda) |
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| Leafhopper nymph |
Meadow Garlic buds |
Meadow Garlic flowers |
Same Meadow Garlic flower and one bulblet with leaf |
Planthopper nymph |
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| Queen Anne's Lace (Daucus carota) |
Tarnished Plant Bug nymph |
Stiff Marsh Bedstraw (Galium tinctorium) |
Tumbling flower beetle |
Water Hemlock (Cicuta maculata) |
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| Weevil |
Wild Onion (Allium vineale) |
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Durham, NC 6/11/20
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| Stiff Marsh Bedstraw (Galium tinctorium) |
Fiddle Dock (Rumex pulcher) |
Flower longhorn beetle (Strangalia notata) |
American Hophornbeam (Ostrya virginiana) |
Spider (Tmarus angulatus) |
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| Male jumping spider (Hentzia palmarum) |
Spotted Ladybug Beetle larva |
Spotted Ladybug Beetle |
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Durham, NC 6/9/20
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| Juvie Carolina Wren |
Same juvie Carolina Wren |
Same juvie Carolina Wren |
Same juvie Carolina Wren |
Chipping Sparrow |
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| Pink magnolia, which normally blooms in early spring |
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Durham, NC 6/8/20
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| Skullcap Skeletonizer Moth (Prochoreutis infratella) |
Maybe a cobweb spider |
Swamp Milkweed Beetles |
Katydid nymph |
Leafhopper |
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| Queen Anne's Lace (Daucus carota) |
Appalachian Brown |
Carolina Wren (watermark mysteriously missing) |
Catfish? in creek |
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Durham, NC 6/7/20
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| Tarnished Plant Bug nymph on fleabane |
Same Tarnished Plant Bug nymph |
Another smaller Tarnish Plant Bug nymph on Black-eyed Susan |
Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta) |
Carolina Rose (Rosa carolina) |
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| Dion Skippers |
Dogbane Hemp (Apocynum cannabinum) |
Green Lynx Spider |
Spider |
Quote written in chalk on paved trail |
Durham, NC 6/6/20
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| Juvie Eastern Bluebird |
Field Madder (Sherardia arvensis) |
Lizard's Tails (Saururus cernuus) |
Oakleaf Hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia) |
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Durham, NC 6/5/20
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| American Hornbeam flower? fruit? |
Bug nymph |
Chipping Sparrow |
Hairy Skullcap (Scutellaria elliptica) |
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail |
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| Leaf-rolling Sawfly (Onycholyda amplecta) |
Teneral Eastern Pondhawk |
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Durham, NC 6/4/20
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| Leafhopper nymph (Scaphoideus genus) |
Tumbling Flower Beetle (Mordellistena comata) |
Wheel Bug nymph |
Widow Skimmer |
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| Heal-all (Prunella vulgaris) |
Larva hiding in an Eastern Daisy Fleabane flower |
Leaf like a chrysalis |
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Durham, NC 6/2/20
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| Common Buckeye |
Another Common Buckeye |
Cobweb spider |
Mystery eggs |
Orb weaver (Mangora genus) |
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| Seed |
American Black Elderberry (Sambucus nigra) flowers |
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Durham, NC 6/1/20
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| Spotless Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle |
Cobweb spider (Theridion genus) |
Ebony Jewelwing |
Female midge |
Red Clover (Trifolium pratense) |
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| Red-necked Cane Borer (Agrilus ruficollis) |
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