August 2011
Penny's Bend Nature Preserve, Durham County, NC 8/31/11
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| Relatively large Jumping spider | Orange Holomelina Moth (Virbia aurantiaca) | Orb weaver (Micrathena mitrata) | Sleepy Orange | Triangulate Orb Weaver |
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| Mayfly, very small, possibly Epeorus fragilis | Flower longhorn beetle on goldenrod, accompanied by a much small beetle | Fowler's Toad, trying to hide |
North Carolina Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC 8/30/11
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| Ailanthus Webworm Moth | Snowberry Clearwing Moth | Horace's Duskwying | Spider wasp |
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| Pink Turtlehead (Chelone obliqua speciosa) | Stokes' Aster | Snowberry Clearwing Moth on phlox flowers | Jack-in-the-Pulpit fruits |
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| Monk's Hood, a members of the Aconitum genus, Ranunculaceae family | Another view of the Monk's Hood flowers on the left |
Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 8/29/11
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| Mating Dog-day Cicadas | Ground beetle | Picture-winged Fly (Delphinia picta) |
Durham, NC 8/26/11
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| Tiny fly on paper: you can see the individual fibers. |
Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 8/25/11
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| Viceroy | Jumping spider | Ichneumon wasp | Spiny Oakworm Moth caterpillar |
Hanging Rock State Park, Stokes County, NC 8/24/11
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| Eastern Fence Lizard, only 2 inches long | White-tailed Deer | Ichneumon wasp | Spider wasp? | Fungus weevil |
Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, NC 8/23/11
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| Rove beetle (Creophilus maxillosus), found on an outdoor trash receptacle | Common Buckeye, on fallen apples, in Old Salem | Sachem on Celosia in Old Salem | Large squash, with grasshopper, in Old Salem | Sunflower | Bee on Black-eyed Susan |
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| View from inside the Mellow Mushroom, downtown Winston-Salem | Downtown Middle School mural |
American Tobacco Trail, Durham, NC 8/21/11
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| Ironweed | Passionflower, unfolding | Trumpet Creeper | A pink variety of Lespedeza (Lespedeza virginica) | Lespedeza sericea |
Durham, NC 8/21/11
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| Muscadine grapes | Shining leaf beetle | Seedbox |
Durham, NC 8/20/11
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| "Snout" moth | Another view of the "snout" moth |
Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, Orange County, NC 8/19/11
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| Caterpillar | Wolf spiderlings | Triangulate Orb Weaver | Eastern Box Turtle | Asiatic Dayflower |
Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 8/18/11
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| Spider wasp | Stink bug nymph | Velvet mite | Tiny jumping spider | Colorful leaf |
Durham, NC 8/18/11
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| Juvenile Five-lined Skink |
Mason Farm Biological Reserve, Orange County, NC 8/18/11
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| Appalachian Brown | Asiatic Dayflower | Male Zabulon Skipper | Maryland Senna (Senna marilandica) |
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| Virginia Meadow Beauty | Silvery Checkerspot | Silvery Checkerspot |
Durham, NC 8/17/11
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| Scarab beetle, about an inch long | Same Scarab beetle, lighted by flash | Leafhopper (Ponana punticollis, subfamily Gyponinae) | Caterpillar, Galgula partita, a Noctuid species. It is described in this article: Godfrey (1981). |
Durham, NC 8/15/11
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| Ironweed, the only such plant on the Third Fork Creek Trail that day | Sycamore flowers and leaves | Sycamore fruit and leaves |
Carolina Beach, NC 8/12/11
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| Carolina Beach: looking at approaching thunderclouds |
Fort Fisher Basin Trail, New Hanover County, NC 8/12/11
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| White Ibises. Photo by Karl D. Gottschalk. | White Ibis landing | White Ibis in flight | White Ibis in the marsh |
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| Spider wasp | Will Cook and Harry LeGrand agree that this is a Salt Marsh Skipper. The clincher was behavior: it feeds on marsh grass, close to the ground. Compare Jeff Pippen's 2008 Salt Marsh Skipper photo. | Tumbling flower beetle | Seaside Dragonlet |
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| Sabatia stellaris | Sea Ox-eye Daisy | Flower fly (Pseudodoros clavatus) on an Asiatic Dayflower | Bee fly (Exoprosopa fascipennis) | Brackish-water Fiddler Crab |
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| Sawfly (Arge humeralis) | Same Arge humeralis | Flea beetle (Trirhabda bacharidis) |
Carolina Beach State Park, New Hanover County, NC 8/12/11
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| Phaon Crescent | Unusual Firewheel | Common Buckeye | Horace's Duskywing | Assassin bug (Zelus genus?) |
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| Spotted Bee-balm (Monarda punctata) | Tread-softly | Red-banded Hairstreak |
Fort Fisher Basin Trail, New Hanover County, NC 8/11/11
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| Juvenile White Ibis and adult Great Egret sharing cedar tree | Juvenile Yellow-crowned Night Heron | Sanderlings (20) |
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| Great Egret | Great Egret in flight | Seaside Dragonlet |
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| Brackish-water Fiddler Crab #1 | Brackish-water Fiddler Crab #2 | Brackish-water Fiddler Crab #3 |
Fort Fisher: Battery Buchanan, New Hanover County, NC 8/10/11
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| Sand Fiddler Crab | Brackish-water Fiddler Crab |
Fort Fisher: Battle Acre, New Hanover County, NC 8/10/11
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| Horace's Duskywing | Pennywort | Typical Firewheels | Pink Firewheels |
Durham, NC 8/8/11
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| Darkling beetle (Alobates pennsylvanica), with tiny fly | Little Glassywing | Male Great Blue Skimmer, somewhat faded | Male Sachem on smartweed |
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| Mock Strawberry |
Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 8/7/11
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| False Bombardier Beetle (Galerita genus) larva, moving very fast. | Question Mark |
Flat River Impoundment, Durham County, NC 8/5/11
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| Bumble Bee on thistle | Sleepy Orange | Scolia nobilitata wasp | Spicebush Swallowtail |
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| Clouded Skipper | Mullein (Verbascum genus) | Teneral male Common Whitetail. These have always been much less common than their female counterparts. | Male American Goldfinch among Common Sneezeweed | Great Blue Skimmer |
Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 8/3/11
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| Slavemaking ants (Formica subintegra). One was apparently trying to carry two captives and dropped them. | One of the fellow slavemaking ants that briefly dropped by and gave up trying to help |
Mason Farm Biological Reserve, Orange County, NC 8/2/11
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| Northern Pearly Eye #1 | Northern Pearly Eye #2 | Skippers on Swamp Milkweed | Female or teneral Widow Skimmer |
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| Male Zabulon Skipper #1 | Male Zabulon Skipper #2 | Flatid planthopper | Little Glassywing and male Sachem on Swamp Milkweed |
Durham, NC 8/1/11
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| Beautiful Wood Nymph. Photo taken at night. |
Copyright © 2011 by Dorothy E. Pugh. All rights reserved. Please contact for rights to use photos.
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