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Durham, NC 8/31/14 (local marsh)
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| Citrus Flatid Planthopper (Metcalfa pruinosa) |
Male Arabesque Orb Weaver |
Leafhopper |
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Durham, NC 8/30/14
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| Issid planthopper (Thionia bullata) |
North Carolina Botanical Garden, 8/29/14
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| Ambush bug on aster |
Same ambush bug |
Ambush bug on Common Boneset) Eupatorium perfoliatum |
Carpenter bee on Wild Onion (Allium canadense) |
Same carpenter bee with ants |
Mating leatherwing beetles |
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| Green Lynx Spider |
Crab spider |
Monkshood |
Powdery
Alligator Flag |
Southern Sheepkill |
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| Brown Thrasher |
A crambid
snout moth (Elophila obliteralis), seen on a Powdery Alligator
Flag leaf |
Weevil
(Haplorhynchites aeneus), very tiny and fast-moving |
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Durham, NC 8/28/14
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| Male Great Blue Skimmer |
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Durham, NC 8/27/14
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| Plume moth
on smartweed |
Brown stink bug |
Muscadine
grapes |
More
muscadine grapes |
Wolf spider |
North Carolina Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC 8/27/14
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| Northern Cardinal |
Horace's Duskywing |
Tomatoes on
the vine |
Mating
thread-waisted wasps |
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Durham, NC 8/26/14
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| Jumping spider |
Ailanthus
Webworm Moth |
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Durham, NC 8/25/14
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| Red-banded
Hairstreak on chives |
Neoscona
crucifera orb weaver, with Japanese Beetle prey |
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Sandy Creek Park, Durham, NC 8/25/14
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| Male Sachem |
Horse fly |
Pennsylvania Leatherwing |
Least Skipper |
Mystery wildflower |
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| This might be an Issidae family planthopper nymph exuvia. |
Durham, NC 8/23/14
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| Orchard Spider |
Sweat bee on chives |
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Durham, NC 8/22/14
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| Acanalonid
planthopper (Acanalonia conica) |
Ailanthus
Webworm Moth |
Female midge |
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Linville Falls, Mitchell County, NC 8/19/14
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| Flower fly |
Pink Turtlehead |
Orchard Spider |
Linville
falls view |
Scarlet Bee
Balm (Monarda didyma) |
Bear Den Campground, Spruce Pine, Mitchell County, NC 8/18-19/14
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| Yellow Fringed Orchid (Platanthera ciliaris) |
Walking stick on a houseplant |
Mushrooms |
Small lobelia |
Summer Azure |
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| Hog Peanut (Amphicarpaea bracteata) |
Bigleaf Magnolia |
Tachinid fly |
Bear Den Lake |
An unusual cloud |
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| The Yellow
Fringed Orchid and its immediate environment |
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North Carolina Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC 8/16/14
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| Crossline Skipper |
Horace's Duskywing |
Jack-in-the-Pulpit |
Robber fly |
Water strider |
Spurred
Butterfly Pea (Centrosema virginianum) |
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Durham, NC 8/16/14
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| Delta
Flower Beetle |
Anomalous pink ironweed flowers |
Wasp |
Small robber fly |
Durham, NC 8/15/14
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| Blue Dasher with wasp
prey |
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Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, Orange County, NC 8/14/14
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| Ailanthus Webworm Moth |
Robber fly
with prey, probably a leafhopper |
Another
(unusual) Ailanthus Webworm Moth |
Orb weaver
(Mangora genus) |
Fungus |
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| Jack-in-the-Pulpit |
Rose Pink (Sabatia angularis) |
Fungus |
Fungus? |
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Durham, NC 8/14/14
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White-tailed Deer fawn, originally accompanied by a doe |
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Durham, NC 8/13/14
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| Female
American Goldfinch |
Male American Goldfinch |
Silver-spotted Skipper |
Brown Stink Bug |
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North Carolina Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC 8/11/14
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| Male Blue Dasher |
Another
male Blue Dasher |
Bee Killer
(Mallophora orsina) |
Robber fly
(Promachus genus) with bee prey |
Same robber fly |
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| Cucumber Beetle |
Duskywing |
Leafhopper |
Argiope
aurantia spider and wasp which was caught temporarily in the
web, but escaped |
Ambush bug |
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| Silver-spotted Skipper |
Thread-waisted wasp |
Same thread-waisted wasp |
Another
Silver-spotted Skipper |
Snowberry
Clearwing Moth |
Durham, NC 8/11/14
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| Jumping
spider (Paraphidippus aurantius) with freshly molted bush
cricket prey |
Assassin
bug, Zelus genus |
Nursery web
spider attacking a Basilica Spider |
Same two spiders |
Crab spider
(Missumessus oblongus) |
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Durham, NC 8/10/14 (local marsh)
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| Megachilid
bee on Purple Coneflower |
Male Great
Blue Skimmer hovering with stationary forewings |
All wings
going but in a narrow space |
Wings all over |
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| Weevil (Lixus genus) |
Virginia
Dayflower |
Fly |
Bee
hovering near moss rose |
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American Tobacco Trail (Miles 6-4), Durham, NC 8/8/14
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| Passionflower |
Partridge Pea |
Bee on St.
Andrew's Cross |
Seedbox |
Mushroom |
Durham, NC 8/7/14
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| Rove beetle |
Feather |
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Durham, NC 8/5/14
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| Black Vulture |
Longhorn
beetle (Prioninae subfamily) |
Snapping Turtle |
Rice Stink Bug |
Mating millipedes |
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| Star-bellied Orb weaver |
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Durham, NC 8/4/14
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| Cellar spider |
Springtail
and fungi |
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Durham, NC 8/3/14 (local marsh and moss
rose garden)
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| Weevil, Lixus genus |
Same weevil |
Big-eyed
bug (Geocoris genus) on moss rose |
Beetle on
smartweed |
Tiny spider |
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| Aquatic
beetle |
Aquatic
beetles |
Water
Primroses |
St.
Andrew's Cross (Hypericum hypericoides) |
Firefly
beetle (Photuris genus) |
Two mushrooms, one of which was being munched on by a squirrel which fled when I approached. |
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