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Durham, NC 10/31/22
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| Thorny Olive (Olaeagnus pungens). |
Thorny Olive (Olaeagnus pungens). |
Flower fly on Autumn Olive (Olaeagnus umbellata) |
Frost Aster (Symphyotrichum pilosum) |
Hearts-a-bustin' (Euonymus americanus) fruit/seeds |
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| Maple leaves |
Oak leaf |
Weevil |
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Durham, NC 10/30/22
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| White Oak (Quercus alba) acorn |
Post Oak (Quercus stellata) |
Sea Myrtle (Baccharis halimifolia) |
Song Sparrow |
Same Song Sparrow |
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| Same Song Sparrow |
Same Song Sparrow |
Parasitoid wasp |
White-throated Sparrow |
Another White-throated Sparro |
Durham, NC 10/29/22
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| Ailanthus Webworm Moth |
Burning Bush (Euonymus alatus) |
Carpenter Bee |
Frost Aster (Symphyotrichum pilosum) |
Hearts-a-bustin' (Euonymus americanus) |
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| Jumping spider (male Hentzia palmarum) |
Same jumping spider (male Hentzia palmarum) |
Potter's Wasp |
Weevil (Lechriops oculatus) |
Weevil (Lechriops oculatus) |
Weevil (Lechriops oculatus) |
Durham, NC 10/27/22
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| Jumping spider (Hentzia palmarum) |
Leaves |
Palm Warbler |
Same Palm Warbler |
Smartweed Caterpillar |
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| Spanish Needles (Bidens bipinnata) |
Spanish Needles (Bidens bipinnata) |
Spanish Needles (Bidens bipinnata) |
Spanish Needles (Bidens bipinnata) |
Spanish Needles (Bidens bipinnata) |
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| Spanish Needles (Bidens bipinnata) |
Green Anole |
Common Yellow Wood Sorrel (Oxalis stricta) |
Cutleaf Coneflower (Rudbeckia laciniata) |
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| Female Eastern Bluebird |
Fiery Skipper |
Flower spider (Mecaphesa asperata) |
Frost Aster (Symphyotrichum pilosum) |
Frost Aster (Symphyotrichum pilosum) |
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| Giant aphid |
Japanese Spindle Tree (Euonymus japonicus) |
Jumping spider (male Pelegrina proterva) |
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Durham, NC 10/25/22
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| Brazilian Vervain (Verbena brasiliensis) |
Crab spider |
Crow |
Giant Aphid |
Japanese Spindle Tree (Euonymus japonicus) fruit |
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| Jumping spider (Attidops youngi) |
Jumping spider (Attidops youngi) |
Jumping spider (Hentzia mitrata) |
Jumping spider (Hentzia mitrata) |
Dead jumping spider (Colonus sylvanus) |
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| Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle pupa |
Mite |
Three Pearl Crescents |
Purple False Foxglove (Agalinis purpurea) |
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| Sleepy Orange |
Tiny spider |
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Durham, NC 10/23/22
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| Male Northern Cardinal |
Dark-eyed Junco |
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Durham, NC 10/21/22
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| Antmimic jumping spider (Synemosyna formica) |
Male Downy Woodpecker |
Male Downy Woodpecker |
Flower spider (Mecaphesa asperata) |
Frost Aster (Symphyotrichum pilosum) |
Charlotte to Raleigh flight, NC 10/18/22
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| Charlotte-Douglas Airport |
Downtown Charlotte |
Cooling tower and environs |
Shopping center |
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| Quarry |
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Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 10/17/22
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| American Coots |
Black Skimmers, Royal Terns, Ring-billed Gulls, and Forster's Gulls |
Black Skimmers and flying Royal Terns |
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| Royal Terns and a Forster's Gull |
Black Skimmers, Forster's Gulls, and a flying Royal Tern |
Dune Camphorweed (Heterotheca subaxillaris) |
Great Blue Heron, Royal Terns, and Forster's Gulls |
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| Great Blue Heron with Royal Terns and Forster's Terns |
Great Blue Heron |
Juvie Great Blue Heron |
Gulf Fritillary |
Marbled Godwit |
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| Same Marbled Godwit |
Probably a non-breeding Black-bellied Plover |
Royal Tern |
Forster's Gulls, Royal Terns, and American Coots |
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| Royal Terns and Black Skimmers |
Ruddy Turnstone |
Same Ruddy Turnstone |
Sanderling |
Semi-palmated Plover |
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| Short-billed Dowitcher |
Same Short-billed Dowitcher |
Trailing Fuzzybean (Strophostyles helvola) |
Willet |
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Mississippi Aquarium, Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 10/16/22
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| Dolphin |
Another dolphin |
Nicobar Pigeon |
Fish in school |
Same fish |
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| Fish |
Lapwing |
Pretend mermaid |
Ray |
Another ray |
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| Scarlet Ibis |
Turaco |
White Ibis with a cataract |
White shark |
Same white shark |
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| Same white shark |
Same white shark |
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Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 10/16/22
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| Beach Morning Glory (Ipomoea imperati) |
Another Beach Morning Glory (Ipomoea imperati) |
Creeping Indigo (Indigofera spicata) |
Mural on Highway 90 |
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| Eastern Bluebirds, two males and a female |
Two other Eastern Bluebirds |
An intersection in an interesting part of town |
Long-tailed Skipper on Lantana |
Another Long-tailed Skipper on Lantana |
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| Northern Mockingbird |
Sea Slater (Ligia oceanica) |
Bitter Sneezeweed (Helenium amarum) |
Trailing Fuzzybean (Strophostyles helvola), at the beach |
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Waveland, Hancock County, MS 10/15/22
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| Arrowleaf Sida (Sida rhombifolia) |
Aster (Symphyotrichum genus) |
Male Blue Dasher |
Blue Mistflower (Conoclinium coelestinum) |
Mystery clover |
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| Frog |
Male Green Darner |
Post-mating Green Darner pair; the male clamps onto the female's head with his terminal appendages |
Another post-mating Green Darner pair |
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| Little Yellow (Eurema lisa) |
Same Little Yellow (Eurema lisa) |
Nakedstem Dewflower (Murdannia nudiflora) |
Nodding Spurge (Euphorbia nutans) |
Another Nodding Spurge (Euphorbia nutans) |
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| Pyralid moth |
Railroad Vine (Ipomoea pes-caprae) |
Railroad Vine (Ipomoea pes-caprae) |
Seedbox (larger than the ones in North Carolina) |
Sneezeweed |
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Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 10/15/22
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| Dune Camphorweed (Heterotheca subaxillaris) |
Firewheel (Gaillardia pulchella) |
Mostly Firewheels (including seedheads) and a few Dune Camphorweeds |
Sawtooth Frogfruit (Phyla nodiflora) |
Sawtooth Frogfruit (Phyla nodiflora) |
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| Great Blue Heron |
Same Great Blue Heron |
Gulf Fritillary |
Long-tailed Skipper |
Airplane |
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| Semi-palmated Plover |
Snowy Egret |
Same Snowy Egret |
Sunset |
Palm fruits |
Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 10/14/22
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| Military jet |
Bidens alba |
Black Skimmer |
Black Skimmers, Ring-billed Gulls, Brown Pelicans |
Male Green Darner |
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| Dune Camphorweed (Heterotheca subaxillaris) |
Great Blue Heron |
Probably a juvie Great Blue Heron |
Probably a juvie Great Blue Heron |
Marbled Godwit |
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| Military aircraft with ejections |
Same military aircraft |
Palm Warbler |
Railroad Vine (Ipomoea pes-caprae) |
Royal Tern |
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| Ruddy Turnstone |
Trailing Fuzzybean (Strophostyles helvola), at the beach |
Variegated Meadowhawk |
Virginia Spiderwort |
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Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 10/13/22
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| Airliner about to fly over our hotel |
Same airliner, but with landing gear out |
Firewheel (Gaillardia pulchella) seedhead |
Checkered skipper |
Common Buckeye |
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| Gulf Fritillary |
Same Gulf Fritillary |
Military helicopter |
Military helicopters |
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| Little Yellow |
Velvetbean Caterpillar Moth |
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Flying to Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 10/13/22
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| Off Mississippi Gulf coast |
Off Mississippi Gulf coast |
Pilot at the Charlotte, NC, airport |
Trucks, somewhere in Mississippi |
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Durham, NC 10/11/22
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| Citrine Forktail |
Local swamp |
Male Fiery Skipper |
Ladybug larva becoming pupa |
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| Ladybug beetle pupa |
Rose hips |
Vervain |
Arrowleaf Tearthumb (Persicaria sagittata) |
Blue Mistflower (Conoclinium coelestinum) |
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| Carolina Holly (Ilex ambigua) |
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Durham, NC 10/8/22
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| Carolina Holly (Ilex ambigua) |
Frost Aster (Symphyotrichum pilosum) |
Hearts-a-bustin' (Euonymus americanus) fruit |
Japanese Spindle Tree (Euonymus japonicus) fruits |
Dog Fennel (Eupatorium capillifolium) |
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| Moth in flight |
Peppermint (Mentha genus) |
Eastern Phoebe |
Same Eastern Phoebe |
Sidewalk art |
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| Spanish Needles (Bidens bipinnata) |
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Museum of Life & Science, Durham, NC 10/7/22
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| Male Northern Cardinal |
Female Northern Cardinal |
Butterfly sculpture |
Dragonfly sculpture |
The lake |
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| Another view of the lake |
Juvie Eastern Phoebe |
Same juvie Eastern Phoebe |
Red Wolf |
Red Wolf |
Red Wolf |
Durham, NC 10/6/22
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| Blackjack Oak (Quercus marilandica) acorn |
Frost Aster (Symphyotrichum pilosum) |
Frost Aster (Symphyotrichum pilosum) |
Frost Aster (Symphyotrichum pilosum) |
Frost Aster (Symphyotrichum pilosum) |
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| Greenbriar fruits |
Jumping spider with winged ant prey |
Nursery web spider |
Wasp |
North Carolina Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC 10/5/22
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| Male Downy Woodpecker |
Flower fly |
Fork-tailed Bush Katydid (Scudderia furcata) |
Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum) fruits, on fallen stalk, on the Nature Trail outside the garden proper |
Lion's Tail (Leonotis leonurus) |
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| Lion's Tail (Leonotis leonurus) |
Skullcap Skeletonizer Moth (Prochoreutis inflatella) |
Monarch |
Pearl Crescent on Blue Mistflower |
Potter wasp |
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| Sleepy Orange |
Another Sleepy Orange |
Winterberry? |
Ambush bug |
American Beautyberry (Callicarpa americana) |
Carolina Chickadee |
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| Another American Beautyberry (Callicarpa americana) |
Same American Beautyberry (Callicarpa americana) |
Probably New England Asters (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae) |
Female Northern Cardinal |
Male Northern Cardinal |
Durham, NC 10/3/22
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| Eastern Phoebe |
Antmimic jumping spider (Synemosyna formica) |
Brown Thrasher |
Chipping Sparrow |
Cockroach (Plectoptera picta) |
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| Flea beetle (Cerataltica insolita) |
Four-humped Stink Bug |
American Goldfinches |
Four American Goldfinches |
Three American Goldfinches |
Northern Mockingbird |
Durham, NC 10/2/22
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| Brown Thrasher |
Same Brown Thrasher |
Same Brown Thrasher |
Adult male Common Yellowthroat |
Devils' Beggarticks (Bidens frondosa) disk flower blooms |
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| Gray Catbird |
Same Gray Catbird |
Green Stink Bug nymph (5th instar) |
Hearts-a-bustin' (Euonymus americanus) fruits |
Hearts-a-bustin' (Euonymus americanus) fruits with seeds showing |
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| Male House Finch |
Same male House Finch |
Japanese Maple samaras |
Leaves from former Hurricane Ian |
More leaves from former Hurricane Ian |
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| More leaves from former Hurricane Ian |
Pennsylvania Smartweed (Persicaria pensylvanica) |
Eastern Phoebe |
American Robin |
Smartweed Caterpillar |
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