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Durham, NC 10/31/20
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| Crab spider (Xysticus genus) |
Cuckoo wasp |
Orb weaver? |
Larva with aphid prey |
Larva with aphid prey |
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| Larva with aphid prey |
Same caterpillar? with aphid prey |
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Durham, NC 10/30/20
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| Checkered skipper |
Long-jawed orb weaver |
Dorsal view of a Japanese Maple Leafhopper nymph |
Same Japanese Maple Leafhopper nymph |
Running crab spider with prey |
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| Little brown job |
Spider (Tmarus genus) |
Warty leaf beetle |
Same Warty leaf beetle |
Same Warty leaf beetle |
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| Aphid, perhaps molting |
Another aphid |
A third aphid |
A fourth aphid |
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Durham, NC 10/27/20
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| Aphid, giving birth |
Same aphid |
Tiny aphid |
Another aphid |
Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle larva, with aphid prey |
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| Brown Stink Bug |
Caterpillar |
Crab spider (Synema parvulum) |
Goldenrod |
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| Jumping spider (male Hentzia palmarum) |
Lace bug (Teleonemia genus) |
Monarch chrysalis |
Platygastrid wasp (Trissolcus genus) |
Spanish Needles (Bidens bipinnata) flower |
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| Spanish Needles (Bidens bipinnata) seedhead |
Maybe Dark Fishing Spider |
Swamp Milkweed Beetle |
Woolly aphid |
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Durham, NC 10/26/20
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| Citrus Flatid Planthopper (Metcalfa pruinosa) |
Hairy White Oldfield Asters |
Marsh fly |
Monarch chrysalis, close to butterfly emergence |
Large wasp nest |
Durham, NC 10/24/20
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| Jumping spider (Hentzia palmarum) |
Tropical Mexican Clover (Richardia brasiliensis) |
Thicket Bean |
Weevil |
Same weevil, with wing showing |
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| Aphid |
Flea beetle (Cerataltica insolita). ID thanks to Vassily Belov. |
Flower fly |
Ghost spider? |
Goldenrod (Solidago genus), with unusually small flowers |
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| Graffiti |
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Durham, NC 10/23/20
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| Asiatic Dayflower (Commelina communis) |
Carolina Dayflower (Commelina caroliniana) |
Bowl-and-doily Spider |
Common Boneset |
Common Wingstem |
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| Crane fly |
Northern Cricket Frog |
Fungi |
Maple leaves |
Pickerelweed and Hairy White Oldfield Asters |
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| Pine Siskin, partially obscured |
Sea Myrtle |
Song Sparrow |
Southern Magnolia seedhead |
Wasp |
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| Nakedstem Dewflower (Murdannia nudiflora). ID thanks to Su Kim. |
Sweet Autumn Virgin's Bower seedheads (Clematis virginiana) seedheads. |
Sweet Autumn Virgin's Bower (Clematis virginiana) seedheads, some opened |
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Durham, NC 10/21/20
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| Arrowleaf Tearthumb |
Azalea flower |
Male Northern Cardinal |
Gray Catbird |
Same Gray Catbird |
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| Carolina Chickadee |
Male Eastern Bluebird |
Another male Eastern Bluebird |
Female Eastern Bluebird |
Another female Eastern Bluebird |
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| Male Eastern Bluebird in flight |
Male Estern Bluebird |
Male Fiery Skipper |
Fungus |
Another fungus |
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| Pale Smartweed |
Partridgeberry |
Pine Warbler |
Another Pine Warbler, in a different light |
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| Pink Muhly Grass |
Redstar Morning Glory |
Seedbox |
Song Sparrow |
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| Song Sparrow |
Two Song Sparrows |
Spotted Cucumber Beetle |
Seedheads of the Virgin's Bower (Clematis virginiana) |
Pine Warbler? |
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| Pine Warbler |
Wasp |
Mystery wildflower bud |
Redstar Morning Glory |
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Durham, NC 10/20/20
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| Jumping spider (male Colonus sylvanus) |
Jumping spider (female Hentzia palmarum) |
Leaf beetle (Paria quadrinotata) |
Antmimic jumping spider (Peckhamia americana) |
Antmimic jumping spider (Synemosyna formica) |
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| Aphid |
Another aphid |
Yet another aphid |
Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle pupae |
Bearded Beggarticks (Bidens aristosa) |
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| Cabbage White |
Common Boneset |
Malaysian False Pimpernel |
Hairy White Oldfield Aster (Symphyotrichum pilosum) |
Hairy White Oldfield Asters (Symphyotrichum pilosum) |
Durham, NC 10/19/20
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| Pine Siskin on Beefsteak Plant |
Viceroy |
Fungus on tree stump |
Blowfly |
Common Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) |
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| Pine Siskin |
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Durham, NC 10/18/20
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| Arabesque Orb Weaver |
Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle |
Green Lacewing "trash carrier" larva, with pincers showing |
Jumping spider with aphid prey |
Red-bellied Woodpecker |
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| Woolly aphid, caught in flight |
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Durham, NC 10/17/20
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| Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle |
Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle pupae |
Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle pupae |
Bearded Beggarticks (Bidens aristosa) flower |
Bearded Beggarticks (Bidens aristosa) flower |
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| Bearded Beggarticks (Bidens aristosa) seedhead |
Bearded Beggarticks (Bidens aristosa) flowers and seedheads |
Climbing Hempvine |
Cocoon |
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| Devil's Beggarticks (Bidens frondosa) seedhead |
Flower fly (Toxomerus geminatus) |
Green Lynx Spider |
Green Stink Bug nymph, 4th instar |
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Durham, NC 10/16/20
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| Carolina Wren |
Same Carolina Wren |
Japanese Honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica) |
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Durham, NC 10/15/20
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| Spanish Needles (Bidens bipinnata) flower |
Another Spanish Needles (Bidens bipinnata) flower |
Another Spanish Needles (Bidens bipinnata) flower |
Spanish Needles (Bidens bipinnata) flowers and leaves |
Spanish Needles (Bidens bipinnata) flowers and leaves |
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| Spanish Needles (Bidens bipinnata) seedhead |
Spanish Needles (Bidens bipinnata) opening seedhead |
Spanish Needles (Bidens bipinnata) opening seedhead |
Spanish Needles (Bidens bipinnata) opening seedhead |
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Durham, NC 10/14/20
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| Green Stink Bug nymph (4th instar) |
Same Green Stink Bug nymph (4th instar) |
Little Yellow |
Pearl Crescent |
Viceroy |
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| Virgin's Bower (the very last) |
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Durham, NC 10/13/20
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| Jumping spider (male Pelegrina proterva) |
Pale Smartweed (Persicaria lapathifolia) |
Smallspike False Nettle (Boehmeria cylindrica) |
Thicket Bean |
Woolly Bear (Pyrrharctia isabella) |
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| Bearded Beggarticks (Bidens aristosa) |
Brazilian Vervain (Verbena bonariensis) |
Clouded Plant Bug |
Mystery grass |
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| Spanish Needles (Bidens bipinnata) in transition from flowers to seedhead |
Spanish Needles (Bidens bipinnata) plant in transition from flowers to seedhead, farther along |
Close-up of unfolding seedhead of Spanish Needles (Bidens bipinnata) |
Complete seedhead of Spanish Needles (Bidens bipinnata) |
Carolina False Dandelion (Pyrrhopappus carolinianus) |
Wasp |
Durham, NC 10/12/20
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| Green Treefrog |
Meadow Katydid |
Tall Ironweed (Vernonia gigantea) |
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Durham, NC 10/10/20
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| Common Wingstem (Verbesina alternifolia) |
Cutleaf Coneflower (Rudbeckia laciniata) |
Green lacewing |
Spotted Ladysthumb (Persicaria sagittata), showing the hairs on the ochrea |
Mystery wing |
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| Bumblebee on Common Wingstem |
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Durham, NC 10/9/20
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| Green Stink Bug nymph, fourth instar |
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Durham, NC 10/8/20
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| Twenty-spotted Ladybug Beetle, head tilted |
Twenty-spotted Ladybug Beetle |
Weevil |
Mystery wildflower |
Mystery beetle |
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| Beggarticks (Bidens genus) |
Common Yellow Wood-Sorrel |
Fly |
Fungi |
Twin-flagged Jumping Spider |
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| Hairy White Oldfield Asters |
Mystery nymph |
Downy Lobelia (Lobelia puberula) |
Pearl Crescents |
Sawfly |
Durham, NC 10/7/20
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| Probably a click beetle |
Crab spider |
Field Cricket |
Jumping spider |
Another jumping spider |
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| Jumping spider (Pelegrina proterva) |
Scuttle fly |
Smallspike False Nettle (Boehmeria cylindrica) |
Ochrea of a Spotted Ladysthumb (Persicaria sagittata) |
Pawlonia elongata on Duke U. Campus, Durham, NC. Introduced from Asia. Photo by Karl D. Gottschalk. |
Durham, NC 10/6/20
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| Chinese Mantis, rescued from street, appeared to be injured |
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Durham, NC 10/5/20
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| Arrowleaf Tearthumb (Persicaria sagittata) |
Arrowleaf Tearthumb (Persicaria sagittata) |
Arrowleaf Tearthumb (Persicaria sagittata) |
Arrowleaf Tearthumb (Persicaria sagittata) |
Leaf beetle (Calligrapha bidenticola) |
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| Common Buckeye on Pennsylvania Smartweed |
Carolina Dayflower |
Devil's Beggarticks (Bidens frondosa) flowers |
Devil's Beggarticks (Bidens frondosa) seedhead |
Another Devil's Beggarticks (Bidens frondosa) seedhead |
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| Hairy White Oldfield Aster (Symphyotrichum pilosum) |
Hearts-a-bustin' (Euonymus americanus) |
Ocola Skipper |
Partridgeberry (Mitchella repens) |
Pearl Crescent |
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| Pennsylvania Smartweed (Persicaria pensylvanica) |
Vegetation on the border of a power line cut |
Sawfly |
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Durham, NC 10/3/20
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| Female antmimic jumping spider (Synemosyna formica) |
Same female antmimic jumping spider (Synemosyna formica) |
Aphid |
Yellow-and-black Spider (Argiope aurantia) |
Leafcutter bee |
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| Female Fiery Skipper |
Goldenrod |
Hairy White Oldfield Aster (Symphyotrichum pilosum) |
Another Hairy White Oldfield Aster (Symphyotrichum pilosum) |
Another Hairy White Oldfield Aster (Symphyotrichum pilosum) |
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| Tall Ironweed |
Scuttle fly |
Mystery wildflower |
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Durham, NC 10/2/20
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| Dog Fennel |
Eastern Daisy Fleabane plant (Erigeron annuus) |
Eastern Daisy Fleabane flower (Erigeron annuus), which has many disk flowers |
Hairy White Oldfield Aster (Symphyotrichum pilosum) with beetle and showing some of the opened disk flowers |
Another Hairy White Oldfield Aster (Symphyotrichum pilosum), showing all the little disk flowers |
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| Little Whitish Morning Glory (Ipomoea lacunosa) |
Viceroy |
West Indian Nightshade (Solanum ptychanthum) |
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Durham, NC 10/1/20
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| Mating Pearl Crescents |
Same mating Pearl Crescents, with an interloper |
Running crab spider |
Hairy White Oldfield Aster (Symphyotrichum pilosum) |
Flatid planthopper |
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| Mating Pearl Crescents |
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