Durham, NC 5/31/18
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| Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle | Red-headed Bush Cricket nymph | Male Northern Cardinal | Jumping spider | Leafhopper nymph |
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| Little Glassywing | Mantid nymph | Mite | Seven-spotted Ladybug Beetle | Swamp Milkweed Beetle |
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| Same Swamp Milkweed Beetle | Same Swamp Milkweed Beetle | Tarnished Plant Bug nymph | Wingless flower thrip | Flower thrip |
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| Thrip | Water Hemlock (Cicuta maculata) | Zebra Swallowtail | Another Zebra Swallowtail | Same Zebra Swallowtail |
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| First Zebra Swallowtail | Same |
Durham, NC 5/29/18
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| Brown Thrasher | Fledgling male Northern Cardinal | Same | Same | Cocklebur Weevil |
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| Eastern Tailed-Blue | Tadpole with little legs | American Black Elderberry (Sambucus nigra), an introduced species |
Ocracoke Island (nearest beach to town), Hyde County, NC 5/26/18
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| Black Skimmer | Ghost Crab | Laughing Gull | Red Knots | Red Knots in flight |
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| More flying Red Knots | Red Knots seeking mollusks |
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| Red Knots, two in breeding plumage | More Red Knots | Yet more Red Knots | Breeding Sanderling | Juvie Sanderling |
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| Semipalmated Plover | Same Semipalmated Plover |
Ocracoke Island (Southpoint), Hyde County, NC 5/25/18
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| Eastern Mud Turtle | Deer Fly | Grackle | Great Egret | Female Needham's Skimmer |
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| Male Needham's Skimmer? | Female Needham's Skimmer | Teneral Eastern Pondhawk | Red-winged Blackbird | Same Red-winged Blackbird |
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| Red-winged Blackbird |
Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 5/25/18
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| Probably Lanceleaf Fogfruit | Another Lanceleaf Fogfruit | Moon | Shield-backed bug | Cat with bird prey? |
Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 5/24/18
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| Floats | Mourning Dove | Sandwich Tern over North Pond | Same Sandwich Tern | Wharf Crab in a residential neighborhood |
Ocracoke Island (nearest public beach), Hyde County, NC 5/23/18
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| Breeding Black-bellied Plover | Another Black-bellied Plover | Same Black-bellied Plover | Red Knot | Same Red Knot |
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| Breeding Ruddy Turnstone | Same Ruddy Turnstone | Sanderling facing away from the wind | Sanderling, with maybe transitional plumage | Nonbreeding Sanderling |
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| Breeding Sanderling |
Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 5/23/18
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| Male Red-winged Blackbird on a cedar |
Springer's Point, Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 5/22/18
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| Mating Redbelly Water Snakes | Same mating Redbelly Water Snakes | Sandwich Tern | Sandwich Tern |
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| Sandhill Bean (Phaseolus sinuatus) | Cactus (Prickly Pear?) | Another Prickly Pear | Another Prickly Pear | Male Northern Cardinal |
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| Fowler's Toad | Northern Mockingbird |
Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 5/22/18
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| Male Carolina Anole displaying | Tabby cat, one the area's feral cats, fed by one of the residents | Eurasian Collared Dove | Female Needham's Skimmer | White-topped Sedge (Rhynchospora colorata) |
Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 5/21/18
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| Sweat bee (Agapostemon genus) on Firewheel flower | Same sweat bee | Common Starling | Squirrel Treefrog | (Yellow) Firewheel (Gaillardia pulchella) |
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| Pink Wood-Sorrel | Male House Sparrow | Great Egret | Gray Catbird | Firewheels (Gaillardia pulchella) |
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| Eurasian Collared Dove | Same Eurasian Collared Dove | Flying Double-crested Cormorant | Same Double-crested Cormorant |
Pamlico Sound, Hyde County, NC 5/20/18
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| Gull | Nonbreeding Laughing Gull |
Swan Quarter, Hyde County, NC 5/20/18
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| Eastern Daisy Fleabane (Erigeron annuus) | False Garlic (Nothoscordum bivalve) | Female Seaside Dragonlet | Another female Seaside Dragonlet |
Durham, NC 5/18/18
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| American Lady | Arabesque Orb Weaver | Case-bearing leaf beetle larva | Large fish | Fly |
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| Ground beetle (Amara aulica) | Seven-spotted Ladybug Beetle | Snail | Flower thrip (Frankliniella genus) | Flower thrips |
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| Warty Leaf Beetle |
Durham, NC 5/16/18
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| Antmimic spider (Castianeira longipalpa) | Beetle | Broad-headed Bug | Crab spider | Crab spider (Mecaphesa genus) |
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| Dwarf spider | Green Treefrog | Ladybug beetle (Cycloneda munda) | Ladybug beetle turning into a pupa | Dusky Ladybug Beetle (Scymnus rubricaudus) |
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| Tiny leaf beetle | Leafhopper nymph (Jikradia olioria) | Pennsylvania Leatherwings, mating, with interloper | Mite | Another (well-fed) mite |
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| Pearl Crescent on White Clover | Pondhawk, almost adult | Spotted Ladybug Beetle larva (Coleomegilla maculata) | Stink bug | Swamp Milkweed Beetle |
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| Tarnished Plant Bug | Thrip on Daisy Fleabane | Flower thrip (Frankliniella genus) | Yet another flower thrip | Four flower thrips on a Daisy Fleabane |
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| Quivering wasp | Weevil | Weevil (Lixus genus) | Same weevil | Wolf spider |
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| Male Zabulon Skipper | Same Zabulon Skipper |
Durham, NC 5/13/18
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| Black Vultures | Broadhead Skink | Crab spider (Synema parvulum) | Elongate springtail | Hoverfly (Toxomerus genus) |
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| Fly | Another fly | Insect frass | Hackberry Emperor | Jumping spider |
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| Jumping spider | Leafhopper nymph (Oncometopia orbona) | Least Skipper | Eastern Phoebe | Same Eastern Phoebe singing |
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| Purple Martins | Male Spangled Skimmer (Libellula cyanea) | Mystery spider | Swamp Milkweed Beetle | Same Swamp Milkweed Beetle |
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| Venus' Looking Glass (Triodanis perfoliata) | Turkey and Black Vultures | Male Zabulon Skipper |
Durham, NC 5/12/18
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| Fowler's Toad | Mothlike seed | Spider wasp | Warty Leaf Beetle | Same Warty Leaf Beetle |
Durham, NC 5/10/18
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| Tiny weevil | Carolina False Dandelion | Golden-backed Snipe Fly | Jumping spider | Male jumping spider |
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| Ladybug beetle (Cycloneda munda) | Leafhopper | Another leafhopper (Balclutha impicta) | Whirligig mite | Spotted Ladybug Beetle (Coleomegilla maculata) |
Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, NC 5/8/18
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| Gray Catbird | Same Gray Catbird | Common Starling |
Durham, NC 5/7/18
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| Jumping spider | Spotted Ladybug Beetle (Coleomegilla maculata) larva | Leaffooted bug | Leafhopper nymph | Whirligig mite, rapidly running in circles |
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| Same whirligig mite | Same mite | Wheel Bug nymph |
Durham, NC 5/6/18
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| Beetle on fungus | Carolina Wren singing | Chipping Sparrow | Same Chipping Sparrow | Southern Blue Flag (Iris virginica) |
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| Mystery wildflower |
Durham, NC 5/4/18
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| Teneral male Common Whitetail | Crab spider (Synema parvulum) | Jumping spider (female Pelegrina genus) | Juvenal's Duskywing | March fly |
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| Pearl Crescent | Another Pearl Crescent | Another Pearl Crescent | Halfway to adult: male Eastern Pondhawk | Male Purple Martin |
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| Purple Martins | Tiny turtle |
Durham, NC 5/3/18
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| Antmimic jumping spider (Synemosyna formica) | Bess Beetle | White Blue-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium albidum) | Chipping Sparrow | Leaf beetle (maybe a flea beetle) |
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| Mock Strawberry | Monarch | Same Monarch | Anomalous Silvery Checkerspot, perhaps having had an abnormal eclosure | Same Silvery Checkerspot |
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| Pearl Crescent on White Clover | Pearl Crescent | Pearl Crescents on White Clover | Silvery Checkerspots on White Clover | Mystery Turtle |
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| Wolf spider | Male Zabulon Skipper | Bristly Mallow |