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Durham, NC 5/31/20
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Seed bug (Ochrimnus lineoloides) |
First bloom on the butterfly bushes |
Flower fly (Toxomerus marginatus) |
Mystery fly |
Stiff Marsh Bedstraw (Galium
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Stiff Marsh Bedstraw (Galium tinctorium) |
Gray Everlasting (Gamochaeta coarctata) |
Leafhopper nymph (Scaphoideus genus) |
Same leafhopper nymph (Scaphoideus genus) |
Moth |
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Red Mulberry (Morus rubra) fruits |
Plume moth (Geina genus) |
Seven-spotted Ladybug Beetle |
Tarnished Plant Bug |
South American Skullcap (Scutellaria racemosa) |
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Wolf spider (Tigrosa georgicola) |
Bird dropping |
Aquatic snails |
Asiatic Dayflower (Commelina communis) |
Curly Dock (Rumex crispus) |
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Mourning Doves |
Rabbit |
South American Skullcap (Scutellaria racemosa), mowed down the next day |
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Durham, NC 5/30/20
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Sweat bee |
Same Sweat Bee |
Same Sweat Bee |
Mystery beetle |
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Same sweat bee |
Bulbous Buttercup |
Carolina Rose (Rosa carolina) |
Another Carolina Rose |
Chipping Sparrow |
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Common Milkweed |
Another Common Milkweed (one bloom) |
Another Common Milkweed |
Northern Cricket Frog |
Cryptocephalid beetle larva |
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Damselfly |
Female Eastern Gammagrass (Tripsacum dactyloides) |
Male Eastern Gammagrass (Tripsacum dactyloides) |
Probably leaf-footed bug eggs |
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Trees at sunset |
Geometrid moth |
Large Milkweed Bug |
Large Milkweed Bugs |
Large Milkweed Bugs |
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Leafhopper nymph |
Another leafhopper nymph |
Little Glassywing |
Harvestman exuvia |
Queen Anne's Lace (Daucus carota) |
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Mystery spider |
Another mystery spider |
Swamp Milkweed Beetles |
Same Large Milkweed Bug |
Venus' Looking Grass (Triodanis perfoliata), with thrips |
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Wild Onion (Allium vineale) |
Aphids |
American Red Raspberry (Rubus idaeus) |
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Durham, NC 5/29/20
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Mannequin and branches |
Female Red-winged Blackbird |
Tree Stink Bug |
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Durham, NC 5/28/20
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Appalachian Brown |
Same Appalachian Brown |
Crab spider (Xysticus funestus) |
Carolina Horsenettle (Solanum carolinense) |
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Millipede |
Carolina Rose. Photo by Karl D. Gottschalk. |
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Durham, NC 5/26/20
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Carolina Wren |
Field Madder (Sherardia arvensis) |
Philadelphia Fleabane |
Flower fly |
Ground Ivy (Glechoma hederacea) |
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Little Brown Jug |
Long-legged fly |
Marsh fly |
Meadow garlic (Allium canadense) |
Mock Strawberry (Duchesne indica) |
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Yellow Nutsedge Moth (Diploschizia impigritella) |
Mulberry fruit |
Red Admiral |
Soldier beetles (Podabrus rugosulus) |
Song Sparrow |
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Same Song Sparrow |
Southern Magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora) |
Southern Magnolia pistils |
Venus' Looking Glass |
Venus' Pride (Houstonia purpurea) |
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Same Venus' Pride (Houstonia purpurea) |
Wheel Bug nymph |
Carolina Cranesbill (Geranium carolinianum) |
Bee |
Beetle |
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White Blue-eyed Grass |
Carolina Cantharid, perhaps with a deformity |
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Durham, NC 5/25/20
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Spotted Cucumber Beetle |
Tarnished Plant Bug |
Wild Onion (Allium vineale) |
Bulbous Buttercup (Ranunculus bulbosus) |
Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) buds |
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Carolina False Dandelion (Pyrrhopappus carolinianus) |
Geometrid moth |
Mock Strawberry |
Cobweb spider (Theridion melanurum) |
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Durham, NC 5/24/20
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Three-lined Antmimic Spider |
Buprestid beetle (Phaenops genus). ID thanks to Bruce Tilden. |
Brown-headed Cowbird pair |
Crab spider |
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Prairie Fleabane |
Harvestman |
Teneral Eastern Pondhawk |
Southern Magnolia |
Ants with larvae |
Durham, NC 5/23/20
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Leafhopper nymph (Scaphoideus genus) |
Snapping Turtle |
Snapping Turtle |
Mesh web weaver |
Probably another mesh web weaver |
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Male Zabulon Skipper |
Bug |
Same bug |
Male Northern Cardinal |
Juvie male Northern Cardinal |
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Juvie male Northern Cardinal |
Carolina Wren |
Crab spider |
Dock flower |
Dwarf spider |
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Juvie Five-lined Skink |
American Hophornbeam catkin |
Jumping spider |
Large Milkweed Bug |
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Beetle (Leptinotarsa genus) larva |
Chipping Sparrow |
Purple Martin |
Another Purple Martin |
Yet another Purple Martin |
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Question Mark |
Same Question Mark |
Saldulid bug |
Six-spotted Fishing Spider |
Eastern Tailed-blue |
Durham, NC 5/22/20
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American Lady |
Appalachian Brown |
Male Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle |
Tiny beetle |
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Green Ash Borer |
Deformed Green Ash Borer |
Jumping spider with katydid prey |
Jumping spider |
Leafhopper nymph exuvia |
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Leafhopper nymph exuvia |
long-jawed orb weaver |
Flower longhorn beetle (Charisalia americana) |
Meadow Garlic (Allium vineale) |
Pachygronthid bug (Oedancala dorsalis) |
Durham, NC 5/21/20
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Hybrid male Mallard-American Black Duck |
Hybrid male Mallard-American Black Duck pair |
Male Mallard |
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Durham, NC 5/17/20
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Buprestid beetle (Acmaeodera tubulus) |
Clover Stem Borer (Languria mozardi) |
Little Brown Jug |
Meadow Garlic |
Mystery plant |
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Stink bug (Mormidea lugens) |
Wolf spider (Arctosa genus) |
Same wolf spider |
Eastern Tailed-Blue |
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Inchworm on fleabane |
Mystery plant, with tiny caterpillar |
Wild Onion (Allium vineale) |
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Durham, NC 5/16/20
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Male Eastern Towhee |
Same male Estern Towhee |
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Durham, NC 5/15/20
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Large Milkweed Bug |
Leafhopper nymph |
Mating Leafhoppers |
Low Hop Clover (Trifolium campestre) |
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Meadow Garlic (Allium canadense) |
Meadow Garlic (Allium canadense) |
Harvestman |
Orchard Spider |
Pearl Crescent |
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Clouded Plant Bugs (Neurocolpus nubilus) mating |
Tarnished Plant Bug |
Winged termite |
Treehopper (Entylia carinata) |
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Wasp |
Beetle on Common Milkweed |
Faded Bulbous Buttercup |
Crab spider |
Curly Dock |
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Curly Dock |
Gray Everlasting |
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Durham, NC 5/14/20
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Black Rat Snake |
Same Black Rat Snake |
Same Black Rat Snake |
Curly Dock? |
Hairy White Oldfield Asters, unusual for this time of year |
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Mat-forming plant |
Partridgeberry |
Prairie Fleabane (Erigeron strigosus) |
Venus' Looking Glass |
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Wasp |
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Durham, NC 5/13/20
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Monarch caterpillar on Common Milkweed |
Fading Bulbous Buttercup |
Fly |
Green Ash Borer |
Meadow Garlic buds |
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Peapod |
Shepherd's Purse |
Showy Primrose |
Spider (Tmarus genus) |
American Black Elderberry |
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Aphids with ant |
European Honeybee |
Flea beetle (Capraita obsidiana) |
Diamond-backed Froghopper |
Fly |
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Mystery grass |
Ladybug beetle pupa exoskeleton |
River Birch (Betula nigra) female catkins |
Tumbling flower beetle |
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Wasp |
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Durham, NC 5/12/20
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Emptied coccoon |
Dark Flower Scarab |
Meadow Garlic (Allium canadense) buds |
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Durham, NC 5/11/20
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Eastern Daisy Fleabane (Erigeron annuus) |
Gray Everlasting flowers (Gamochaeta coarctata) |
Lauxaniid fly |
Little Quaking Grass |
Meadow Garlic (Allium canadense) |
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Planthopper (Criomorphus genus) |
Purple Lovegrass (Eragrostis spectabilis) |
Purple Lovegrass (Eragrostis spectabilis) |
Seven-spotted Ladybug Beetle |
Tumbling Flower Beetle |
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Carolina Satyr |
Common Vetch (Vicia sativa) |
Teneral male Common Whitetail |
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Durham, NC 5/10/20
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Cixid planthopper |
Curly Dock (Rumex crispus) |
Lyre-leaved Sage (Salvia lyrata) |
Robber fly |
Shepherd's Purse (Capsella Bursa-pastoris) |
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Common Baskettail |
Young fishing spider (Dolomedes genus). ID thanks to Laura P. |
Zabulon Skipper |
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Durham, NC 5/9/20
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American Snout |
Beaked Cornsalad |
Luna Moth wing |
Orange Holomelina (Holomelina aurantiaca) |
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Persian Speedwell (Veronica persica) |
Sedge |
Glassy-winged Sharpshooter (Homalisca vitripennis) |
Same Glassy-winged Sharpshooter (Homalisca vitripennis) |
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Same Glassy-winged Sharpshooter (Homalisca vitripennis) |
Shepherd's Purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris) |
Another Shepherd's Purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris) |
Another Shepherd's Purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris) |
Male Zabulon Skipper |
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American Lady |
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Durham, NC 5/7/20
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Female Blue Dasher |
Narrowleaf Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium angustifolium) |
Crimson Clover (Trifolium incarnatum) |
Jumping spider (Paraphidippus aurantius) with prey |
Same jumping spider |
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Leafhopper |
Leafhopper nymph |
Long-legged fly |
Low Hop Clover (Trifolium campestre) |
Rushes (Juncus effusus) |
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Mason Wasp (Euodynerus schwarzi) |
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Durham, NC 5/6/20
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White Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium albidum) |
Maybe a tachinid fly |
Green-and-gold (Chrysogonum virginianum) |
Green Ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica) leaves and samaras |
Hemp Dogbane (Apocynum cannabinum) |
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Red Mulberry (Morus rubra) female catkins |
Mulberry (Morus rubra) male catkins |
Orchard Spider |
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Durham, NC 5/4/20
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Poppy (Papaver dubium) |
Orb weaver, probably Mangora genus |
Whirligig Mite (Anystis baccarum) racing around a Little Quaking Grass (Briza minor) spikelet |
Same Whirligig Mite |
Leaf beetle (Paria quadrinotata) |
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Grass flowers |
Flea beetle (Kuschelina scripticollis) |
Eastern Box Turtle |
Narrowleaf Blue-eyed Grass |
Antmimic jumping spider (Synemosyna formica) |
Durham, NC 5/3/20
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Might be hawkweed. |
Ground Ivy (Glechoma hederacea) |
Seen on a paved trail. |
Mapleleaf Viburnum (Viburnum acerifolium) |
Mock Strawberry (Duchesnea indica) |
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Partridgeberry (Mitchella repens) |
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Durham, NC 5/2/20
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Monarch on Common Milkweed |
Narcissus Bulb Fly (Merodon equestris) |
Tarnished Plant Bug |
Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle larva in the process of turning into a pupa |
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Bee |
Buprestid beetle |
Curly Dock (Rumex crispus) flower close-up |
Emerald Ash Borer |
Mystery geranium |
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Mystery geraniums |
Grass buds? |
Japanese Honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica) |
Little Brown Jug (Hexastylis arifolia) flowers |
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Durham, NC 5/1/20
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American Black Elderberry (Sambucus canadensis) |
White Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium albidum) |
Deerberry (Vaccinium stamineum) |
Eastern Gammagrass (Tripsacum dactyloides) |
Hawkweed |
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Hearts-a-bustin (Euonymus americanus) |
American Hophornbeam (Carpinus americanus) |
Little Brown Jug (Hexastylis arifolia) |
Long-legged fly |
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Purple Dead Nettle (Lamium purpureum) |
Red Cedar |
Tatarian Honeysuckle (Lonicera tartarica) |
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