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Field and Swamp: Animals and Their Habitats

        

Watauga County, NC, and parts south and west

     
Grandfather Mountain (Avery County, seen from the Blue Ridge Parkway in Caldwell County).  Photo by Karl D. Gottschalk Linn Cove Viaduct.  Photo by Karl D. Gottschalk      

Boone, Watauga County, NC  8/6/08

Harvester Flea beetles mating Leafhopper Bee? Tortoise beetle

 

     
Lynx spider (Oxyopes salticus), with small green prey Tarnished Plant Bug on Spotted Jewelweed flower      

Daniel Boone Gardens, Boone, Watauga County, NC  8/5/08

 
Ambush Bug, leaving flower This is where the Ambush Bug on the left was before. Another view. Leafhopper (Graphocephala versuta).  Note wing sticking out on the side.  

 

   
Netwinged beetles mating Mating White-lined Burrower Bugs Thread-waisted wasp    

 

     
Pearl Crescent Cuckoo wasp      

Blue Ridge Parkway, Caldwell County, NC  8/5/08 (mileposts 296-302)

Picture-winged fly (Callopistromyia annulipes).  ID thanks to Ron M. Male Scorpion Fly Tachinid flies Yellow-and-black Argiope Mystery stink bug

Boone, Watauga County, NC  8/4/08

 
Peck's Skipper Monarch Aphrodite Fritillary Great Spangled Fritillary  

 

 
Pipevine Swallowtail (ventral view) Male Pipevine Swallowtail (dorsal view) Female black form Easter Tiger Swallowtail Gray Hairstreak  

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