Durham, NC 5/31/17
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| Cixid planthopper | Swamp Milkweed Beetle | Two-lined Froghopper | Tiny wasp | Another tiny wasp |
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| Whitefly | Arabesque Orb Weaver | Swamp Milkweed Beetle (Labidomera clivicollis) larva | Mating flower flies (Toxomerus genus) | Flower longhorn beetle on Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) |
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| Grass flowers | Leafhopper | Lightning bug beetle in flight | Same lightning bug beetle |
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| Lightning bug beetle | Large Millweed Bugs mating | Swamp Rose (Rosa palustris), with crab spider | Planthopper | Long-jawed orb weaver |
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| Katydid nymph |
Durham, NC 5/30/17
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| Male Eastern Pondhawk, in transition from teneral to adult | Purple Martin | Rice Stink Bug |
Durham, NC 5/29/17
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| Apple Maggots in a confrontation | Eastern Tailed-blue | Flower fly (Toxomerus genus) | Marsh fly | Mite |
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| Rambur's Forktail | Spotted Cucumber Beetle | Brown Thrasher | Same Brown Thrasher |
Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 5/27/17
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| Variegated Fritillary on White Clover | Squirrel Treefrog (Hyla squirella) | Ladies tresses orchid (Spiranthes lacera) | Closer look at the same ladies tresses orchid | Ladies tresses flower from side |
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| Another ladies tresses orchid | Close-up of a Ladies Tresses group of flowers, showing orange and yellow interiors | A group of Ladies Tresses flowers from another plant, showing just a green-yellow interior | Plant bug, seen on building exterior | Same plant bug |
Ocracoke Island (near beach), Hyde County, NC 5/27/17
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| Ruddy Turnstone, nearly in full breeding plumage | Same Ruddy Turnstone | Sanderling in breeding plumage | Another Sanderling in breeding plumage | Same Sanderling |
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| Non-breeding Sanderling | Breeding Willet | Firewheels |
Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 5/26/17
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| Eurasian Collared Dove | Artwork on a house | Fort Ocracoke memorial plaque | Seen at a business | Killdeer |
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| View across the North Pond | Sanderlings flying across the North Pond | Snowy Egret at the North Pond | Sunset | Sunset reflected in a window |
Ocracoke Island (north shore), Hyde County, NC 5/26/17
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| American Oystercatcher | Same American Oystercatcher | Washed-up blowfish | Dredging channels | Eastern Beach Tiger Beetle |
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| Same Eastern Beach Tiger Beetle | Same Eastern Beach Tiger Beetle | Ferry arriving at Silver Lake | Young Ghost Crab | Blooming Largeleaf Pennyworts (Hydrocotyle bonariensis) |
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| Sanderling | Another Sanderling | Sandspurs | Seaweed | A view of the shore |
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| Spider wasp (in dunes) |
Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 5/25/17
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| Vine | View of the marsh | Ladies tresses orchid (Spiranthes genus) | Fowler's Toad | Figurine in front yard |
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| Aphid |
Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 5/24/17
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| Male Northern Cardinal | Feral cat (seen at old lighthouse) | Fowler's Toad | Male House Sparrow | Female Mallard |
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| Mandevilla | Salt Marsh Mallow (Kosteletzkya virginica) | Male Common Starling in breeding plumage |
Ocracoke Island (north shore), Hyde County, NC 5/24/17
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| Sanderling in breeding plumage | Another Sanderling in breeding plumage | Common Tern | Same Common Tern | Same Common Tern |
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| Brackish-water Fiddler Crab | Tiny beetle in the dunes | Damselfly | Ghost Crab |
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| Jellyfish | Royal Tern |
Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 5/22/17
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| A lone Laughing Gull at Silver Lake | The gull issues several cries. | Another view | A second gull arrives. | The courtship ritual begins. |
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| The gull that came looks down. | They're just brushing beaks here. | Now the caller looks up. | Purple Morning Glory (Ipomoea purpurea) vine | Mourning Dove taking off. |
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| Male Red-winged Blackbird | Same male Red-winged Blackbird | Sanderling in breeding plumage | Another Sanderling, also in breeding plumage | Juvie Gray Catbird |
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| Barn Swallow | Bike sculpture | Feral cat | Male Eastern Towhee (very early) | Grass flowers |
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| Gray Catbird | Laughing Gulls and Herring Gulls compete for scraps tossed from a nearby restaurant | Male House Sparrow |
Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 5/21/17
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| Eurasian Collared Doves | The USDA calls this a "rattlebox" (Sesbania punicea). It's a kind of locust tree, a member of the pea family (Fabaceae) and is native to South America. It's considered to be invasive and a noxious weed in Florida and California, but North Carolina's chilly winters keep it in check. | White-topped Sedge flower (Rhynchospora colorata) |
Pamlico Sound and Dredge Island, Hyde County, NC 5/21/17
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| Brown Pelicans on Dredge Island | Another view of Brown Pelicans on Dredge Island | More Brown Pelicans on Dredge Island |
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| Diving tern over Pamlico Sound. Probably a nonbreeding Common Tern (Sterna hirundo) |
Swan Quarter, Hyde County, NC 5/21/17
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| Barn Swallow in flight | Barn Swallow, also in flight | Delaware Skipper | Killdeer | Same Killdeer |
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| Killdeer | Female Needham's Skimmer | Palatka Skipper | Female Seaside Dragonlet | Perhaps teneral female Seaside Dragonlet |
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| Male Seaside Skimmer, nearly adult | Teneral male Seaside Skimmer | Another teneral male Seaside Skimmer | Male Seaside Skimmer, nearly adult | Adult male Seaside Skimmer |
North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, Orange County, NC 5/18/17
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| Ambush bug | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | Syrphid fly (Toxomerus genus) | Gray Hairstreak | Long-jawed orb weaver |
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| Tuberous Grasspink Orchid (Calpogon tuberosus) | Smooth Coneflower (Echinacea laevigata) | Virginia Spiderwort buds | Wasp ovipositing | Tiny wasp |
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| Wasp with ovipositor | Spider wasp visiting a pitcher plant. It actually went just inside it and came out. | Watershield flower | Same Watershield flower (Brasenia schreberi) |
Flat River Waterfowl Impoundment, northeastern Durham County, NC 5/16/17
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| Silvery Checkerspot | Same Silvery Checkerspot | Silvery Checkerspot | Clay-colored Leaf Beetle (Anomoea laticlavia) | Same Clay-colored Leaf Beetle (Anomoea laticlavia) |
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| Jumping spider | Same jumping spider | Daisy | Fowler's Toad |
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| Ashy Clubtail | Crab spider | Redbelly Water Snake | American Lady |
Mason Farm Biological Reserve, Orange County, NC 5/15/17
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| Question Mark | Red Admiral | River Cooter | Silvery Checkerspot | Silvery Checkerspot |
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| Sundrops | Variegated Fritillary | Wildflowers | Male Zabulon Skipper | Male Zabulon Skipper |
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| Asters | Teneral Blue Dasher | Ebony Jewelwing | Great Blue Skimmer | Long-jawed orb weaver |
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| Question Mark |
Durham, NC 5/14/17
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| Weevil (Lixus genus) playing dead | Same weevil | Rambur's Forktail |
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| Moth (Cosmopterix genus). ID thanks to Bob Biagi. | Marsh fly | Ladybug beetle larva exuvia | Green Six-spotted Tiger Beetle | Teneral Spangled Skimmer |
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| Northern Cricket Frog | Another Northern Cricket Frog | Teneral Blue Dasher | Male Northern Cardinal | Same male Northern Cardinal |
Durham, NC 5/10/17
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| Broad-headed bug (Alydus eurinus) | Bug | Male Northern Cardinal | Grass flowers | Jumping spider |
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| Leafmining leaf beetle (Sumitrosis inaequalis) | Mating beetles (Photinus genus) | Red Clover (Trifolium pratense) | Stink bug nymph | Stink bug nymph with aphid prey |
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| Swamp Milkweed Beetle | Thrip | Treehopper (Entylia carinata) | Twig or stem weevil (Cylindrocopturus quercus). ID thanks to Blaine Mathison. | Wheel Bug nymph |
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| Weevil (Lixus genus) | Same weevil | Blue-eyed grass | Fuzzy seeds on a branch | Crab spider (Xysticus genus) |
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| Grasshopper | Ichneumon wasp | Least Skipper | Stink bug | Stink bug nymph |
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| Mating Swamp Milkweed Beetles | Turkey Vulture | Wheel Bug nymph | Winged ants |
Durham, NC 5/9/17
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| Bee fly | Southern Blue Flag (Iris virginica), seen in swampy area with many nonflowering iris plants | Southern Short-tailed Shrew (Blarina carolinensis), showing vestigial eye | Same Southern Short-tailed Shrew, showing foot | Same Southern Short-tailed Shrew, showing everything but its furry tail |
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| Same Southern Short-tailed Shrew |
Durham, NC 5/6/17
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| Bean Leaf Beetle (Cerotoma trifurcata) | Another Bean Leaf Beetle (Cerotoma trifurcata). ID thanks to Brandon Woo. | Teneral Blue Dasher | Adult Blue Dasher | Dayflying lightning bug beetle |
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| Male Fiery Skipper on White Clover | Mating flower flies (Toxomerus genus) | Long-legged fly? (very tiny) | Golden-backed Snipe Fly | Ichneumon wasp |
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| Jumping spider | Same jumping spider | Leaffooted bug | Leafhopper nymph | Same leafhopper nymph |
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| Leafrolling moth (Olethreutes sericorana) | Mating lightning bug beetles | Moth | Pickerelweed with male Fiery Skipper | Issid planthopper nymph (Thionia simplex, maybe) |
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| Shore bug (Salda lugubris), seen in a drainage conduit to a pond. ID thanks to Vassily Belov. | Tiny spider | Stink bug nymph | Tachina fly | Venus' Looking Glass |
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| Yellow-collared Scape Moth | Antmimic spider | Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle |
Durham, NC 5/4/17
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| Appalachian Brown, with two damaged hind wings; this shows the left side. | Here is the right side of the same Appalachian Brown. | Golden-backed Snipe Fly (Chrysopilus thoracicus) |
Larkspur, Marin County, CA 5/2/17
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| Ferries at Larkspur Landing |
Abbott's Lagoon, Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin County, CA 5/1/17
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| California Quail | Common Shore Tiger Beetle | Another Common Shore Tiger Beetle pair, mating | Male Cardinal Meadowhawk (Sympetrum illotum) | Fly |
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| Fly | Another fly | Pea | Stream Bluet | Stream Bluet pair |
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| White-crowned Sparrow | Another White-crowned Sparrow | White-winged Scoter (in the Pacific Ocean) | Beach Primrose (Camissoniopsis cheiranthifolia) |