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October 2024

North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, NC 10/31/24

 
Female American Goldfinch        

   
Female American Goldfinch   Wild Sensitive Plant    

Durham, NC 10/29/24

Cosmos sulphureus, seen in a remote area near a lowland, with a Spotted Cucumber Bug Cosmos sulphureus, seen in a remote area near a lowland Bowl and Doily Spider Same Bowl and Doily Spider Jumping spider (Hentzia genus)

Jumping spider (Hentzia genus) Jumping spider (Hentzia genus) Spotted Cucumber Beetle Blue Mistflower Pluchea camphorata

Durham, NC 10/26/24

Spotted Cucumber Beetle Broad-shouldered water strider (Microvelia genus) Broad-shouldered water strider (Microvelia genus) with dogday cicada Same broad-shouldered water strider (Microvelia genus) with dogday cicada Heavenly Bamboo

 
Persimmon tree Song Sparrow Same Song Sparrow Hoverfly (Eristalis dimidiata)  

Durham, NC 10/22/24

 
Pond vegetation Hoverfly (Eristalis dimidiata) on Frost Asters Hoverfly (Eristalis dimidiatus) on Frost Asters Hoverfly (Toxomerus geminatus)  

 

 
Hoverfly (Eristalis dimidiatus) on Frost Asters Hoverfly (Eristalis dimidiatus) on Frost Asters Hoverfly (Eristalis dimidiatus) on Frost Asters Sea Myrtle (Baccharis halimifolia)  

Durham, NC 10/21/24

Cereal Leaf Beetle (Oulema melanoplus) Winged ants Winged ant Black Stink Bug Jumping spider (Hentzia palmarum)

 
Jumping spider (Hentzia palmarum) Frost Aster, after blooming Frost Asters Tiny wasp  

 
Japanese Spindle Tree fruit Japanese Spindle Tree fruit Aphid Downy Woodpecker eating berries  

Durham, NC 10/18/24

 
Brown Thrasher        

   
Red Admiral Same Red Admiral Spanish Needles    

American Tobacco Trail (miles 0-2), Durham, NC 10/15/24

Kudzu flower Purple Morning Glory Porcelainberry fruit Red-shouldered Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk

(Large) Fruit Fly (Dioxyna picciola) Downtown Durham Female Northern Cardinal Female Northern Cardinal Silver-spotted Skipper

Blowfly on aster closeup Blowfly on aster Canna Lily Male Northern Cardinal Porcelainberries

Durham, NC, 10/11/24

Frost Aster, going to seed Frost Aster, going to seed Blue Mistflower Transverse Flower Fly (Eristalis transversa) Leafcutter bee

Leafcutter bee bee on frost asters Transverse Flower Fly (Eristalis transversa) Transverse Flower Fly (Eristalis transversa) Bumblebee

     
Transverse Flower Fly (Eristalis transversa) Male Fiery Skipper on Frost Aster branch      

Durham, NC 10/9/24

Dog Fennel Common Yellow Wood-sorrel Cypress Vine (Ipomoea quamoclit) Cypress Vine (Ipomoea quamoclit) buds Cypress Vine (Ipomoea quamoclit)

Cypress Vine (Ipomoea quamoclit) Cypress Vine (Ipomoea quamoclit) Cypress Vine (Ipomoea quamoclit) Cypress Vine (Ipomoea quamoclit) Cypress Vine (Ipomoea quamoclit)

   
Female Fiery Skipper Male Fiery Skipper Chipping Sparrow    

Durham, NC 10/5/24

   
Jumping spider (male Colonus sylvanus) Jumping spider (Paraphidippus aurantius) Devil's Beggarticks (Bidens frondosa)    

Durham, NC 10/4/24

Thread-waisted wasp Thread-waisted wasp Frost Aster Marsh Dewflower Maybe a developing Mock Strawberry fruit

 
Horseweed Dog Fennel Hearts-a-bustin' seedhead Spanish Needles flower  

Thorny Olive (Elaeagnus pungens) Thorny Olive (Elaeagnus pungens) Unopened Eastern Caesar's Amanita (Amanita jacksonii) Male Northern Cardinal Crossline Skipper

Opened Eastern Caesar's Amanita (Amanita jacksonii) Unopened Eastern Caesar's Amanita (Amanita jacksonii) Asiatic Dayflowers Male Fiery Skipper Lichens

Durham, NC 10/3/24

Red-headed Bush Cricket, making wing movements Jumping spider (Paraphidippus aurantius) Sleepy Orange Flea Beetle Black Stink Bug (Proxys punctulatus)

Picture-winged fly (Delphinia picta) Picture-winged fly (Delphinia picta) Hoverfly American burnweed Female Eastern Forktail

Female Eastern Forktail European Honeybee Frost Asters Nakedstem Dewflowers (Murdannia Nudiflora) Nakedstem Dewflowers (Murdannia Nudiflora)

Durham, NC 10/2/24

       
Tersa Sphinx Moth caterpillar (Xylophanes tersa)        

Durham, NC 10/1/24

Tufted Titmouse Same Tufted Titmouse Same Tufted Titmouse Pearl Crescent White Wood Aster

 
Frost Aster Frost Aster Blue Mistflower Green lacewing larva  

 

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