Durham, NC 8/30/16
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| Green Treefrog | Another Green Treefrog | Leaffooted bugs mating | Orb Weaver | Click beetle |
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| Caterpillar |
Durham, NC 8/29/16
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| Eastern Phoebe | Same Eastern Phoebe | Green Treefrog | Corn Earworm | Moth eggs (Dagger moth?) |
Durham, NC 8/28/16
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| Fledgling Carolina Wren | Pearl Crescent |
Hoop Pole Natural Area, Atlantic Beach, Carteret County, NC 8/25/16
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| Green Anole | Seaside Dragonlet | Sand Fiddler Crab | Seaside Dragonlet | Seaside Dragonlet |
Fort Macon State Park, Atlantic Beach, Carteret County, NC 8/25/16
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| Ruddy Turnstone | Ghost Crab | Eastern Beach Tiger Beetle (Habroscelimorpha dorsalis media) | Same Eastern Beach Tiger Beetle | Rabbit |
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| Cicada Killer wasp | Red-winged Blackbirds | Needham's Skimmer |
Pine Knoll Shores, Carteret County, NC 8/24/16
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| Laughing Gull helping itself to fishing bait | Sanderling | Herring Gull | Laughing Gull? | Tern |
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| Ghost Crab exuvia |
Fort Macon State Park (nature trail), Atlantic Beach, Carteret County, NC 8/24/16
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| Bee fly (Exoprosopa fasciata) | Female Golden Silk Spider (dorsal view) | Female Golden Silk Spider (ventral view) | Male Golden Silk Spider (dorsal view) | Male Golden Silk Spider (ventral view) |
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| Golden Silk Spider pair | Another Golden Silk Spider pair | Mourning Dove | Female Needham's Skimmer | Red-banded Hairstreak |
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| Salt Marsh Mallow | Probably a Common Shore Tiger Beetle | Trailing Wild Bean | Cloudless Sulphur |
Pine Knoll Shores, Carteret County, NC 8/23/16
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| Laughing Gull with fish prey | Sanderling | Wave | Another wave | Willet landing |
Theodore Roosevelt Natural Area, Carteret County, NC 8/23/16
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| First-year White Ibis and Little Blue Heron | White Ibis family, with very young one hiding in the grass | Four White Ibises, including two juvies | Juvie White Ibis | Same juvie White Ibis |
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| Two juvie White Ibises | Nearly mature White Ibis | Great Egret | Cloudless Sulphur |
Pine Knoll Shores, Carteret County, NC 8/22/16
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| Sanderling | Willet | Another Willet | Gull landing | Gull landed |
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| Sunset | Gull flying |
Durham, NC 8/21/16
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| Monarch | Mating Ocola Skippers | Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | Female Great Blue Skimmer | Fledgling male Eastern Bluebird |
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| Canada Geese, flying west | More Canada Geese | Cloudless Sulphur | Same Cloudless Sulphur |
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| Female Great Blue Skimmer | Same female Great Blue Skimmer | Teneral female Great Blue Skimmer | Ocola Skipper | Silver-spotted Skipper |
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| Long-legged fly |
Durham, NC 8/20/16
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| Tawny Emperor |
Durham, NC 8/18/16
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| Fledgling Carolina Wren | Same Carolina Wren | Cocklebur Weevil | Damselfly | Female Fiery Skipper |
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| Hummingbird Clearwing Moth | Another Hummingbird Clearwing Moth | Another Hummingbird Clearwing Moth | Ocola Skipper | Robber fly (Promachus genus) |
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| Black form female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | Same Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | Tufted Titmouse | Common Starlings |
Durham, NC 8/17/16
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| Small (young?) Arabesque Orb Weaver | Juvie female Eastern Bluebird | Male Common Whitetail | Long-legged fly | Ocola Skipper on smartweed |
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| Male fiery Skipper | Same male fiery Skipper | Clouded Skipper | Saddlebags | Bean plant |
Durham, NC 8/16/16
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| Silver-spotted Skipper |
Durham, NC 8/15/16
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| Blue Dasher | Male Common Whitetail | Green Treefrog | Another Green Treefrog | Orb weaver |
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| Spider | Wolf spider | Mating damselflies |
Durham, NC 8/14/16
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| Male Eastern Amberwing | Juvie male Eastern Bluebird | Another juvie male Eastern Bluebird | Same juvie male Eastern Bluebird | Ocola Skipper |
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| Male Eastern Pondhawk | Wasp | Male Eastern Bluebird, almost mature | Drone Fly |
Durham, NC 8/12/16
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| Imperial Moth | Zebra Swallowtail |
Durham, NC 8/11/16
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| Male American Goldfinch | Hummingbird Clearwing Moth | Silver-spotted Skipper | Female Eastern Amberwing | Same female Eastern Amberwing |
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| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | Male Blue Dasher | Teneral Blue Dasher | Juvie Five-lined Skink | Grasshopper |
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| Sleepy Orange | Another Sleepy Orange | Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | Black-tailed Red Sheetweaver | Mystery dragonfly |
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| Female Sachem | Anomalous teneral Common Whitetail |
Durham, NC 8/10/16
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| Planthopper (Mysidia mississippiensis) | Leafhopper (Coelidia litoria) nymph |
Durham, NC 8/9/16
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| Green Treefrog | Leaffooted bug |
Durham, NC 8/8/16
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| Red-shouldered Hawk | Black form Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | Same Black form Eastern Tiger Swallowtail |
Durham, NC 8/7/16
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| Swamp Milkweed Beetle | Freshly molted leafhopper | The leafhopper's exuvia, seen nearby | Male Zabulon Skipper |
Durham, NC 8/6/16
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| Cabbage White | Little Glassywing | Robber fly | Rose | Snout moth |
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| Green Treefrog | Northern Cricket Frog | Convergent Ladybug Beetle | Least Skipper | Same Least Skipper |
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| Crescent moon | Long-jawed orb weaver with prey | Bat |
Durham, NC 8/5/16
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| Crab spider (young Mecaphesa dubia) | Flower fly | Female Zabulon Skipper | Hummingbird Clearwing Moth | Same Hummingbird Clearwing Moth |
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| This Hummingbird Clearwing Moth tried every cluster on this Butterfly Bush |
Durham, NC 8/4/16
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| Ambush bug | Dorsal view of the same ambush bug | Teneral Blue Dasher | Cardinal Flowers | Crane fly |
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| Teneral Gray (Copes?) Treefrog | Same Gray (Copes?) Treefrog | Grasshopper | Dodder | Great Blue Skimmer |
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| Hummingbird Clearwing Moth | Horace's Duskywing | Juvie Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Same juvie Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Jumping spider |
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| Little Glassywing | Picture-winged fly | Silver-spotted Skipper | Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | Male Zabulon Skipper |
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| Sweat bee on goldenrod | Thick-headed fly (Stylogaster neglecta) in flight. ID thanks to John and Jane Balaban. |
Durham, NC 8/3/16
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| Juvie Ruby-throated Hummingbird admiring a Trumpet Creeper flower (with nearby bean pod) | Robber fly (Promachus genus) | Probably the same robber fly! |
Durham, NC 8/2/16
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| Ocola Skipper | Silver-spotted Skipper | Snowberry Clearwing Moth | Same Snowberry Clearwing Moth | Same Snowberry Clearwing Moth |
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| Same Snowberry Clearwing Moth |
Durham, NC 8/1/16
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| Fledgling Carolina Wren | Tachinid fly | Tiny leafhopper, on finely detailed leaf | Ocola Skipper |