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Durham, NC 9/29/22
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| Arrowleaf Tearthumb (Persicaria sagittata) |
Bearded Beggarticks (Bidens aristosa) |
Mystery caterpillar |
Common Boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum) |
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| Devil's Beggarticks (Bidens frondosa) |
Female Eastern Bluebird |
Another female Eastern Bluebird |
Hairy White Oldfield Asters (Symphyotrichum pilosum) |
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| Fruit of mystery plant |
European Honeybee |
Japanese Mazus |
Moth |
Another moth |
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| Pale Smartweed (Persicaria lapathifolia) |
Spotted Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis) seedpod |
Spotted Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis) seeds |
Spotted Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis) seeds |
Spotted Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis) seeds |
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| Virgin's Bower (Clematis virginiensis) seedheads |
Virgin's Bower (Clematis virginiensis) seedheads |
Yellow Woolly Bear |
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Durham, NC 9/28/22
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| Hairy White Oldfield Asters (Symphyotrichum pilosum), with disk flowers blooming |
Hairy White Oldfield Asters (Symphyotrichum pilosum), with disk flowers still as buds |
Aster seed, with an awn missing |
Black Vulture |
Blue Mistflower (Conoclinium coelestinum) |
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| Bowl-and-doily Spider |
Brown Thrasher |
Same Brown Thrasher |
Resting Carpenter Bee |
Carolina Wren |
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| Citrus Flatid Planthopper |
Pearl Crescent |
American Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) |
Eastern Phoebe |
Same Eastern Phoebe |
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| Same Eastern Phoebe |
Same Eastern Phoebe |
Purple False Foxglove |
Spider? |
Early-instar stink bug nymph |
Durham, NC 9/25/22
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| Bearded Beggarticks (Bidens aristosa) |
Sweat Bee |
Camphor Pluchea (Pluchea camphorata) |
Devil's Beggarticks (Bidens frondosa) |
Eastern Black Nightshade (Solanum emulans) |
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| Male Eastern Bluebird |
Field Cricket nymph |
Goldenrod, very tall |
Green Lynx Spider with an egg sac |
Same Green Lynx Spider with an egg sac |
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| White Micrathena (Micrathena mitrata) |
Paper wasp |
Pearl Crescent |
Potter's Wasp |
Smartweed Caterpillar (Acronicta oblinita) |
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| Triangulate Orb Weaver, working hard on a strange web |
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Durham, NC 9/23/22
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| Blue Mistflower (Conoclinium coelestinum) |
Boxelder Maple (Acer negundo) |
Devil's Beggarticks (Bidens frondosa) seedhead |
Downy Woodpecker |
Mating dragonflies |
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| Juvie Northern Mockingbird |
Eastern Black Nightshade (Solanum emulans) |
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Durham, NC 9/21/22
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| Purple Beautyberry (Callicarpa dichotoma) fruits |
Yellow Garden Spider (Argiope aurantia) with dogday cicada prey |
Same Yellow Garden Spider (Argiope aurantia) with dogday cicada prey |
Asiatic Dayflower (Commelina communis) |
Devil's Beggarticks (Bidens frondosa) |
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| Goldenrod |
Hearts-a-bustin' (Euonymus americanus) bush |
Hearts-a-bustin' (Euonymus americanus) seeds |
Ladysthumb (Persicaria maculosa) |
Marbled Orb Weaver |
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| Marsh Dewflower (Murdannia keisak) |
Pearl Crescent |
Spanish Needles (Bidens alba) |
Spotted Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis) seed pod |
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Durham, NC 9/20/22
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| Ripe Creeping Cucumber (Melothria pendula) fruit |
Not to so ripe Creeping Cucumber (Melothria pendula) fruit |
Green Creeping Cucumber (Melothria pendula) fruit |
Cutleaf Coneflower (Rudbeckia laciniata) |
Larger Elm Leaf Beetle larva |
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| Leaf-footed bug |
Least Skipper |
Tick-trefoil |
Small robber fly |
Same small robber fly |
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| Virginia Bugleweed (Lycopus virginicus) |
Virginia Bugleweed (Lycopus virginicus) |
Swamp Milkweed Beetle larva |
Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) seeds |
Orb weaver web |
Durham, NC 9/18/22
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| Arrowleaf Tearthumb (Persicaria sagittata) |
Gray Hairstreak. |
European Honeybee |
Leaf-footed bug nymphs |
Leaf-footed bug nymphs |
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| Pennsylvania Smartweed (Persicaria pensylvanica) |
Red-banded Hairstreak |
American Robin |
Song Sparrow |
Birdlike dew drop |
Durham, NC 9/12/12
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| Delta airliner |
Mystery insect |
Arabesque orb weaver |
Carolina Dayflower (Commelina caroliniana) |
Green Stink Bug nymph (fifth instar) |
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| Larger Elm Leaf Beetle larvae (17 of them) |
Orb weaver |
Juvie Orchard Spider |
Tall Tick-trefoil (Desmodium glabellum) |
Same Tall Tick-trefoil (Desmodium glabellum) |
Tall Tick-trefoil (Desmodium glabellum) flowers |
Woolly aphid |
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| Pearl Crescent |
Planthopper (Mysidia mississippiensis) |
Planthoppers (Mysidia mississippiensis) |
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| Planthoppers (Mysidia mississippiensis) |
Juvie Red-headed Woodpecker |
Male Common Scorpion Fly |
Same male Common Scorpion Fly |
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| Same male Common Scorpion Fly |
Same male Common Scorpion Fly |
Smartweed Caterpillar (Acronicta oblinita) |
Spined Soldier Bug |
Tussock moth caterpillar |
Durham, NC 9/10/22
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| Arrowleaf Tearthumb (Persicaria sagittata) and Pennsylvania Smartweed (Persicaria pensylvatica) |
Beefsteak Plant (Perilla frutescens) |
Young Copes' Gray Treefrog |
Garlic Chives (Allium tuberosus) |
Garlic Chives (Allium tuberosus) |
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| Garlic Chives (Allium tuberosus) seed pods |
Leaf-footed Bug nymphs |
Pennsylvania Smartweed (Persicaria pensylvatica) |
Spotted Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis) seedhead |
Tufted Titmouse |
Same Tufted Titmouse |
Durham, NC 9/9/22
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| Daring Jumping Spider (Phidippus audax) |
Dew drops |
Female Downy Woodpecker |
Green Lynx Spider with egg sac |
The egg sac |
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| Mourning Doves |
Orb weaver |
Orchard Spider |
Pea flower |
Male Summer Tanager |
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| Same male Summer Tanager |
Same male Summer Tanager |
Same male Summer Tanager |
Orb weaver web |
Another orb weaver web |
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| Airliner |
Beefsteak Plant (Perilla frutescens) |
Beefsteak Plant (Perilla frutescens) |
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Durham, NC 9/8/22
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| Forked Bluecurls (Trichostema dichotomum) |
American Goldfinch |
Path in the woods |
Eastern Gray Squirrel with a pine cone |
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Durham, NC 9/7/22
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| Airliner |
Beefsteak Plant (Perilla frutescens) |
Beefsteak Plant (Perilla frutescens) close-up |
Carolina Dayflowers (Commelina caroliniana) |
Snowy Urola (Urola nivalis) |
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| Wild Grapes |
Differential Grasshopper |
Fall Colors |
Larger Elm Leaf Beetle larva |
Larger Elm Leaf Beetle larva |
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| Pea pod of Tall Tick-trefoil (Desmodium glabellum) |
Pennsylvania Smartweed (Persicaria pensylvanica) at the Woodcroft Stormwater Wetland pond |
Red-banded Hairstreak on Common Boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum) |
Red-headed Woodpecker |
Same Red-headed Woodpecker |
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| Sachem on Pennsylvania Smartweed (Persicaria pensylvatica) |
Scorpion fly |
Silver-spotted Skipper |
Same Silver-spotted Skipper |
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Durham, NC 9/5/22
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| American Redstart |
Appalachian Brown |
Arrowleaf Tearthumb (Persicaria sagittata) |
Asiatic Dayflower (Commelina communis) |
Bearded Beggarticks (Bidens aristosa) |
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| Bearded Beggarticks (Bidens aristosa) |
Cockroach (Plectoptera picta) |
Common Groundsel (Senecio vulgaris) |
Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) seed pod and seed |
Cutleaf Coneflowers (Rudbeckia laciniata) |
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| Fly |
Forked Bluecurls (Trichostema dichotomum) |
Katydid |
Larger Elm Leaf Beetle (Monocesta coryli) |
Malaysian False Pimpernel (Lindernia crustacea) |
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| Malaysian False Pimpernel (Lindernia crustacea) |
Tick-trefoil (Desmodium genus) |
Triangulate Orb Weaver |
Two-lined Froghopper |
White-tailed Deer |
Durham, NC 9/4/22
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| Yellow Garden Spider (Argiope aurantia), with prey |
Bee |
Fall colors |
Fiery Skipper |
Forked Bluecurls (Trichostema dichotomum) flower |
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| Male American Goldfinch |
Male American Goldfinch |
Male American Goldfinch |
Green Frog (Lithobates clamitans) seeking minerals from the soil |
Crambid snout moth |
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| Ocola Skipper |
Pearl Crescent |
Male Rambur's Forktail |
Red-banded Hairstreak |
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| Red-banded Hairstreak |
Red-shouldered Hawks |
Part of the swamp |
Female Zabulon Skipper |
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Durham, NC 9/3/22
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| Ailanthus Webworm Moth |
American Beautyberry (Callicarpa americana) |
Clouded Plant Bug (Lygus lineolaris) |
Forked Bluecurls (Trichostema dichotomum) |
Forked Bluecurls (Trichostema dichotomum) |
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| Forked Bluecurls (Trichostema dichotomum) |
Forked Bluecurls (Trichostema dichotomum) |
Ladysthumb (Persicaria maculosa) |
Mystery moth |
Rabbit |
Spider |
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| Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis) |
Juvie Five-lined Skink |
Gray Catbird |
Japanese Hops (Humulus japonicus) |
Sweet Joe Pye Weed (Eutrochium purpureum) |
Durham, NC 9/1/22
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| Blue Mistflower (Conoclinium coelestinum) |
Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis) |
Common Dodder (Cuscuta gronovii) flowers |
Common Dodder (Cuscuta gronovii) flowers |
Trash-carrying green lacewing larva |
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| Larger Elm Leaf Beetle (Monocesta coryli) |
Little White Morning Glory (Ipomoea lacunosa) |
Male White Micrathena (Micrathena gracilis) |
Spotted Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis) |
Tropiduchid planthopper (Pelitropis rotulata) |
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| Male Zabulon Skipper on Rose-of-Sharon |
Little White Morning Glory (Ipomoea lacunosa) |
Nursery Web Spider (Pisaurina mira) |
Some kind of tick-trefoil |
American Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) fruits |
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| Rose-of-Sharon () |
Silver-spotted Skipper |
Swamp Agrimony (Agrimonia parviflora) |
Virgin's Bower (Clematis virginiana) |
Chalk art |
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