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This park is still officially under development, but its pristine condition makes it the home of a large number of species that are difficult or impossible to find anywhere else. Main habitat/environment page
I took the May 30-31, 2008 photos at the annual meeting of the National Audubon Society's North Carolina State Office.
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Fire Pink (Silene virginica), 5/30/08 |
May 31, 2008
Many of these animals turned up on a bird-watching guided tour of the park trails given by Curtis Smalling, who identified the Gray Petaltail and Spangled Skimmers.
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Gray Petaltail. See other dragonflies. | Female Spangled Skimmer | Eastern Fence Lizard | Leaf rolling weevil (Attelabus bipustulatus), about 3 mm long |
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One-spotted Tiger Beetle (Cicindela unipunctata) | Zebra Flower Longhorn Beetle | Glowworm beetle | Male Spangled Skimmer | Bear footprint |
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Horse fly | A kind of woolly aphid | Mystery moth | Painted Turtle |
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Appalachian Brown | Mystery fly | Sparkling Jewelwing. See other damselflies. | Whirligig Beetle | Adult water strider (Trepobates subnitidus). One of very many in a pond. |
May 30, 2008
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Eyed Click Beetle | Calico Pennant | Male Five-lined Skink, which had lost part of his tail. | Mystery beetle (3 mm long) | Lichen Moth (Lycomorpha pholus) |
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Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle larva apparently about to become a pupa. | Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle pupa | Aphid | Aphid with what seems to be molted "skin" | A woolly aphid, but a member of a different species from that above. |
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Lightning beetle, with deformed wings | Orchard Spider | Elongate Long-jawed Orb Weaver | Mystery leaf beetle | Moth, very tiny, on a painted wooden wall |
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