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October 2010

Third Fork Trail, Durham, NC 10/28/10


Little Yellow butterfly (Eurema lisa)	Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae)	Handsome Meadow Katydid

Flat River Impoundment (NC Wildlife Resources Commission), Durham, NC 10/27/10


Clouded Sulphur	Orange Sulphur	Female Sachem on Brazilian Verbena	Variegated Fritillary	Cabbage White


Milkweed seeds emerging from pod	Fungus beetle, maybe Asian Oak Weevil	White Morning Glory (Ipomoea lacunosa)	Common Sneezeweed	Aster - unusual. Only Daisy Fleabane flowers have this many petals.


Brown Stink Bug (Euschistus servus)	Field Cricket

Durham, NC 10/26/10


Crab spider (Xysticus genus) responding to my attention	Closeup of same Xysticus genus crab spider	Muscid fly on Smartweed

Durham, NC 10/22/10

This squash vine appeared next to a trail in my neighborhood. One day after these pictures were taken, someone picked the fruit.


Squash fruit, about 8 inches long	Squash flower and small fruit	Flower fly (Toxomerus genus) on a squash flower

Hemlock Bluffs Nature Preserve, Cary, Wake County, NC 10/22/10


Virginia Spiderwort	Centipede	Swift Creek	Ichneumon wasp

Diamondhead (common area south of I-10), Hancock County, MS 10/17/10


Coyote, one of two that ran across the road between two wooded areas	Blue Crab, in a drainage ditch	Aster, a small flower

Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 10/17/10


Black Skimmer in flight, with unequal upper and lower bill sizes clearly visible	Black Skimmers, Royal Terns and gulls	Black Skimmers and other birds


Black Skimmer in flight, with tail feathers clearly visible	Big bird footprint, with large feather for size comparison	Maybe the bird that made the big footprint. Definitely not a Great Blue Heron.

Bay St. Louis, Hancock County, MS 10/16/10


Giant Swallowtail caterpillar, about 5 mm long	Chinch Bug, on the tip of an agave leaf. About 1-2 mm long

Gulfport, Harrison County, MC 10/16/10


Dainty Sulphur (Nathalis iole)

Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 10/15/10


Black Skimmer flying over gulls	Black Skimmer doing "skimming," i.e., scooping prey from the water with its lower beak	Skimming by another Black Skimmer	Semipalmated Plover

Buccaneer State Park, Waveland, Hancock County, MS 10/15/10

There were lots of Monarchs, but no milkweed; the only milkweed bug I saw was simply nectaring.


Bee (Coelioxys mexicana), Megachilidae family). First expert-identified photo of this species on BugGuide, on this page.	Gulf Fritillary	Large Milkweed Bug	Buccaneer State Park

Bay St. Louis, Hancock County, MS 10/15/10


Chinese Goose	Apparently a Canada Goose-Chinese Goose hybrid	Red Spider Lilies (Lycoris radiata), common wildflowers from Bay St. Louis to Gulfport	Mating Variegated Meadowhawks (Sympetrum corruptum)

Gulf Shores National Seashore, Ocean Springs, MS 10/14/10


Devil's Walkingstick (Aralia spinosa), a very thorny tree	Wandering Glider, uncharacteristically perched	Male Tropical Checkered Skipper	Female Fiery Skipper	Love Bug (Plecia nearctica), actually a march fly


Ageratum flowers	Paper wasp	Great Blue Heron with large fish prey	American Alligator

Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 10/14/10


Black Skimmers in flight	Gulfport sunset	Group of Black Skimmers flying

Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 10/13/10


Little Yellow	Cloudless Sulphur on Red Spider Lily	Gulf Fritillary

Bay St. Louis, Hancock County, MS 10/13/10


Parakeet, maybe an escaped pet	Marlin Miller made sculptures out of dead trees in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. This is probably one of them.	Red Spider Lilies. They are bulb plants, but apparently can survive as wildflowers, even after the hurricane.

North Carolina Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC 10/10/10


Female Cloudless Sulphur	Fiery Skipper	Sweat bee, shiny green in reflective light but only black in this shady place	Flower fly (Syrphus genus)

Sandy Creek, Durham, NC 10/7/10


Chinese Mantis	Checkered skipper (dorsal view). They can look golden in the right light.	Checkered skipper (lateral view, ventral view of wings).	Gemmed Satyr


Mating Pearl Crescents, which were doing a lot of flying	Thread-waisted wasp (Eremnophila aureonotata). A common wasp without a common name.	Spider wasp (Auplopus mellipes mellipes) looking for nest entrance in sewer manhole.	Spider wasp entering sewer manhole hole.	Argiope aurantia (big photo is oriented correctly!)

Flat River Impoundment, Durham County, NC 10/4/10


Variegated Frillary	Eastern Tiger Swallowtail	Monarch	Viceroy	Mating Cloudless Sulphurs The male was on top, carrying the upside-down female during intermittent flights.	Sleepy Orange


Checkered skipper	Gray Hairstreak	Regular Orange Sulphur	Albino Orange Sulphur


Broad-headed Bug	Ailanthus Webworm	Yellow-collared Scape Moth	Large Milkweed Bug on milkweed pod	Infested milkweed pod with Large Milkweed Bug. Several more were deeper inside, hiding under the seeds.


American Bird Grasshopper	Flower fly (Eristalis dimidiata), Flat River Impoundment, Durham, NC, 10/4/10.

Southpoint Swamp, Durham, NC 10/4/10


Rough Stink Bug	Blowfly	Ailanthus Webworm Moth


Common Buckeye	Paper wasp

Eno River State Park, Orange County, NC 10/3/10


Female American Rubyspot (Hetaerina americana)	Northern Pearly Eye	Carolina Satyr	Sleepy Orange


Asian Multicolored Ladybug Beetle larva

Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 10/1/10


Elongated Long-jawed Orb Weaver	Handsome Meadow Katydid	Crane fly	Seed Box

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