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Durham, NC 8/31/12
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| Painted Lady |
Male
American Goldfinch |
Margined
Leatherwing Beetle |
Asian
Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle |
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Fort Fisher Recreation Area, New Hanover County, NC
8/29/12
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| Megachilid
bee on Sea Oxeye Daisy |
Queen |
Sabatia stellaris |
Ruddy
Turnstone in non-breeding plumage |
Salt Marsh Skipper |
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| View of
inner marsh from the sandy stretch of the Basin Trail |
Female
Seaside Dragonlet |
Purslane |
Mystery vine |
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| Adult White Ibises |
Subadult White Ibises |
Male-like
female, male Seaside Dragonlet in post-mating position |
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| Female
Brackish-water Fiddler Crab |
Male Brackish-water Fiddler
Crab |
Great Egret in flight |
Subadult
Boat-tailed Grackle |
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Carolina Beach, New Hanover County, NC 8/29/12
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| Four-spotted Pennant |
Passionflower |
Sagittaria genus |
Swedish Blue |
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| Cloudless Sulphur |
Bottlebrush flower |
Firewheel |
Grass |
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| Subadult
House Sparrow |
Sea Oats |
Tread Softly |
Yellowbelly Slider |
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| Virgin's Bower |
Carolina Lake |
Rambur's Forktail |
Palm fruits |
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Fort Fisher Recreation Area, New Hanover County, NC
8/27/12
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| Robber fly |
Sand Fiddler Crab |
Bee fly |
Firewheels |
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| Male
Seaside Dragonlet |
Willet |
Immature
Sand Fiddler starting to enter a hole (already occupied by a
mature one) |
Gull |
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| Firewheels, yellow variety |
Sky |
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Durham, NC 8/26/12
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| Green Treefrog |
Flower fly |
Teneral
Eastern Pondhawk |
Horsenettle flowers and buds |
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| Little
Glassywing on smartweed |
Jumping spider |
Japanese Mazus |
Long-legged fly |
Jumping
spider (Phidippus clarus). |
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| Two-lined
Froghopper |
Mystery
wildflower |
Carolina Satyr |
Little Glassywing |
Another
Little Glassywing |
Jordan Lake, Chatham County, NC 8/23/12
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| Eastern Tiger Swallowtail |
Cloudless Sulphur |
St. Andrew's Cross |
Dion Skipper |
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| Part of
beaver skull (upside down) |
Beaver backbone |
Beaver pelvi, another bone |
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| Carolina Satyr |
Spiny Orb
Weaver (Micrathena gracilis) |
The lakefront |
Water Boatman |
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Third Fork Creek Trail,
Durham, NC 8/23/12
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| Virginia
Dayflower (Commelina virginica) |
Great
Lobelia, with a springtail |
Jumping
spider (female Hentzia palmarum) |
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Durham, NC 8/22/12
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| Monarch |
Eastern
Tiger Swallowtail (dorsal view) |
Same
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (ventral view) |
Flower fly |
Marsh fly |
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| Male soldier fly
(Microchrysa polita) |
Unusually
pale Tall Ironweed |
Asian
Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle |
Monarch |
Arabesque
Orb Weaver |
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| American Lady |
White
Dogbane Moth |
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Durham, NC 8/21/12
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| Orb weaver |
Wolf spider with egg sac |
Leatherwing beetle |
A green
roof on a Chapel Hill Tire Co. office |
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Durham, NC 8/18/12
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| Female soldier fly
(maybe Microchrysa polita). Tentative ID thanks to
Shannon Donavan. |
Crape Myrtle flower |
Two-lined
Froghopper |
Yellow-and-black Garden Spider (Argiope aurantia), in an
unusually small web for its size |
Red-spotted Purple |
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| Subadult Five-lined Skink |
Fiery Skipper |
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Durham, NC 8/17/12
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| Slaty Skimmer |
Bug,
subfamily Rhopalinae |
Recent
metamorph Blue Dasher |
Bumblebee,
perhaps a spider attack victim |
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Yellow-and-black Garden Spider (Argiope aurantia) |
March fly |
Wingstem |
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Penny's Bend Nature Preserve, Durham County, NC
8/15/12
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| Northern Pearly Eye |
Silvery Checkerspot |
Robber fly |
Black-tailed Red
Sheetweaver |
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| Virginia Hover Fly |
Small
Milkweed Bug on Dogbane |
Micrathena
gracilis |
Millipede (Sigmoria aberrans) |
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| Pink Muhly Grass |
Carolina Satyr |
False Dandelion |
Fowler's Toad |
Male Calico Pennant |
Durham, NC 8/14/12
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| Female Imperial Moth |
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Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 8/12/12
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| Red Admiral |
Slaty Skimmer |
Rove beetle |
Green Lynx
Spider on Tall Ironweed |
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Mason Farm Biological Reserve, Orange County, NC
8/12/12
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| Sabatia angularis |
Wolf
spider carrying spiderlings |
Partridge Pea |
Horse Nettle |
Crab
spider on Heal-All |
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| Bee |
Red Admiral |
Silvery Checkerspot |
Bee fly |
Meadow beauty |
Durham, NC 8/10/12
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| Worm Snake,
which I found in the street. It moved just like an
earthworm and was the same size. |
Common Whitetail |
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Durham, NC 8/9/12
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| Marbled Orb Weaver |
Snout moth
(Colomychus talis) |
Snout moth |
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Third Fork Trail, Durham, NC 8/6/12
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Yellow-and-black Garden Spider (Argiope aurantia) |
Leafhopper |
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Third Fork Trail, Durham, NC 8/5/12
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| Blue Dasher |
Humpbacked
Orb Weaver |
Cardinal
Flowers |
Hibiscus,
planted along trail |
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| Jumping
spider (Phidippus genus), very small |
Same jumping spider |
Big mushrooms |
A robber
fly that had been lying on a sidewalk |
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Boone, Watauga County, NC 8/3/12
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| Green lacewing larva |
Pipevine Swallowtail |
Black form
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail |
Sleeping
bumblebee |
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Tanawha Trail, Avery County, NC 8/3/12
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| Red
Turtlehead (Chelone obliqua obliqua) |
Monkshood |
Angelica
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Umbrellaleaf |
Umbrellaleaf and Red Bergamot |
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Tanawha Trail and Blue Ridge Parkway, Avery County,
NC 8/2/12
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| Blue Ridge Mountains |
Crab spider, probably Mecaphesa
asperata |
Green Stink Bug nymph |
Pipevine Swallowtail |
Another Pipevine Swallowtail |
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| Orchard Spider |
Orb weaver |
Red
Turtlehead (Chelone obliqua) |
Dark-eyed Junco |
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Boone, Watauga County, NC 8/2/12
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| Sweat bee
(Agapostemon genus) |
Sweat bee
on a mint plant |
Eastern
Tiger Swallowtail? |
Aprodite Fritillary |
Tiny crab
spider on a small aster |
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Hairstreak on an aster |
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Boone, Watauga County, NC 8/1/12
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| Sweat bee
(Agapostemon genus) on aster |
Hornet on
Queen Anne's Lace |
Male
American Goldfinch |
Crown Vetch |
Female Sachem |
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| Painted Lady |
Pipevine
Swallowtails in competition |
Trumpet Creeper |
Weeping Willow |
Smaller
Weeping Willow |
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