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Durham, NC, 8/31/20
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| Thread-waisted wasp |
Another thread-waisted wasp on Garlic Chives |
Yet another thread-waisted wasp |
Wolf spider |
Male Zabulon Skipper |
Durham, NC 8/30/20
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| Garden spider (Argiope aurantia) |
Tiny mating beetles |
Boxelder samaras |
Sericea Lespedeza |
Crab spider |
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| Cutleaf Coneflower |
Cypress Vine |
Jumping spider (Hentzia mitrata) |
Mushroom near the Thicket Bean |
Marbled Orb Weaver |
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| Orchard Spider |
Smallspike False Nettle (Boehmeria cylindrica) seeds |
Mystery wildflower |
Same mystery wildflower |
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Durham, NC 8/29/20
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| Black-bordered Lemon Moth |
Brown Thrasher |
Brown Thrasher |
Buttonbush inflorescence and seedheads |
Juvie female Northern Cardinal |
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| Juvie female Northern Cardinal |
Common Groundsel (Senecio vulgaris) |
Common Groundsel (Senecio vulgaris) |
Devil's Beggarticks (Bidens frondosa) |
Devil's Beggarticks (Bidens frondosa) |
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| Dun Skipper |
Same Dun Skipper |
False pimpernel |
Female Fiery Skipper |
Fungus |
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| Galium genus |
Goldenrod (Solidago genus) |
Hearts-a-bustin' (Euonymus americanus) |
Hearts-a-bustin' (Euonymus americanus) |
Hearts-a-bustin' (Euonymus americanus) |
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| American Hophornbeam (Ostrya virginiana) |
Juvie House Finches |
Katydid |
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| Northern Mockingbird |
Monarch |
Orchard Spider |
Prostrate Spurge (Euphorbia maculata) |
Larger portion of the Prostrate Spurge (Euphorbia maculata) |
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| Redstar (Ipomoea coccinea) |
Tomato, found in a power line cut. Not naturally growing in this climate. |
Virgin's Bower |
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Durham, NC 8/28/20
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| Painted Lady on Garlic Chive |
Same Painted Lady on another Garlic Chive |
Painted Lady on yet another Garlic Chive |
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Durham, NC 8/27/20
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| Painted Lady on Garlic Chive |
Annual Ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) |
Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus) |
Spreading Yellow False Foxglove (Aureolaria patula) |
A nearby Spreading Yellow False Foxglove (Aureolaria patula) |
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| Asiatic Dayflower (Commelina communis) |
Hearts-a-bustin' (Euonymus americanus) fruit |
Another Hearts-a-bustin' (Euonymus americanus) fruit on the same bush |
Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle laying eggs |
Same Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle laying eggs |
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| Same Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle laying eggs |
Same Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle laying eggs |
Eggs of the same Asian Multi-colored Ladybug |
Mystery fly |
Garlic Chives |
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| Painted Lady |
Puffball |
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Durham, NC 8/26/20
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| Common Groundsel (Senecio vulgaris) infloresence turning into a seedhead |
Common Groundsel (Senecio vulgaris) infloresence |
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Durham, NC 8/25/20
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| Common Groundsel (Senecio vulgaris) seedhead |
Common Groundsel seedheads and blooms |
Feather, perhaps of a Red-shouldered Hawk |
Groundnut (Apios americana) |
Leaf-footed bug nymph |
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| Puffball, with dark top |
Annual Ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) |
Yellow Passionflower plant |
Mystery wildflower |
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Durham, NC 8/24/20 (more)
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| Cardinal Flowers |
Chipping Sparrow |
Male Eastern Bluebird |
Garlic Chives (Allium tuberosus) |
Ironweed (Vernonia genus) |
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| Pennsylvania Smartweed (Persicaria pensylvanica) |
Trumpet Creeper (Campsis radicans) |
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Durham, NC 8/24/20
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| Carolina Dayflower (Commelina caroliniana) |
Common Boneset (Euptorium perfoliatum) |
Common Yellow Wood-sorrel |
Creeping Cucumber (Melothria pendula) |
Dun Skipper |
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| Eggs, probably of Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle |
Female Fiery Skipper |
Male Fiery Skipper |
Another male Fiery Skipper |
Flies mating, with spectator |
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| Fly on smartweed |
Leafhopper (Sibovia occatoria) |
Marsh fly (Tetanocera genus) |
Snout moth |
Puffball |
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| Pandora Sphinx |
Pearl Crescent on dew-laden grass |
Transitional male Eastern Pondhawk |
Seven-spotted Ladybug Beetle |
Six-spotted Shining Leaf Beetle |
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| Sleepy Orange |
Pennsylvania Smartweed (Persicaria pensylvatica) |
Soldier fly (Sargus genus). ID thanks to Vassily Belov. |
Spined Assassin Bug |
Mild Waterpepper (Persicaria hydropiperoides) |
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| Pale Smartweed (Persicaria lapathifolia) |
Viceroy |
Mystery wildflower |
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Durham, NC 8/22/20
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| Spider (Argiope aurantia) |
Carolina Dayflower (Commelina caroliniana) |
Carolina Horsenettle (Solanum carolinense) |
Another Carolina Horsenettle (Solanum carolinense) |
Click beetle |
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| Clip-wing Grasshopper (Metaleptea brevicornis) |
Cutleaf Coneflower (Rudbeckia laciniata) |
Gray Everlasting (Gamochaeta coarctata) |
Least Skipper |
Crambid moth (Epipagis fenestralis) |
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| Short-winged Meadow Katydid (Conocephalus brevipennis) |
Snail |
Swamp Milkweed Beetle |
Yellow Passionflower plant |
Triangulate Orb Weaver |
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| Velvet Mite |
Smallspike False Nettle (Boehmeria cylindrica) |
Jumpseed (Persicaria virginiana) |
Same Jumpseed |
Durham, NC 8/21/20
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| Prominent moth caterpillar (probably Peridea angulosa), on underside of sycamore leaf |
Climbing Hempvine (Mikania scandens) |
Dark Fishing Spider |
False Crocus Geometer Moth |
Grasshopper |
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| Grasshopper |
Leaf-footed bug nymph |
Robber flies (Promachus rufipes) mating |
Six-spotted Shining Leaf Beetle |
Six-spotted Shining Leaf Beetle |
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| Spotted Ladybug Beetles (Coleomegilla maculata) |
Stiletto fly |
Virgin's Bower (Clematis virginiana) |
Velvet Mite, seen on fennel |
Six-spotted Fishing Spider |
Durham, NC 8/20/20
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| Eastern Tiger Swallowtail |
Arabesque Orb Weaver |
Chives buds |
Cutleaf Coneflower |
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Durham, NC 8/18/20
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| Braconid wasp (Aleiodes politiceps) |
Brazilian Verbena (Verbena brasiliensis) |
Carpenter Bee on Pickerelweed (Pontederia cordata) |
Calligrapha bidenticola beetles mating |
Cockroach |
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| Creeping Cucumber (Melothria pendula) flower and fruit |
Creeping Cucumber (Melothria pendula) fruits, one past ripe |
Creeping Cucumber (Melothria pendula) fruits |
Cutleaf Coneflower (Rudbeckia laciniata) |
False Nutsedge (Cyperus strigosus) |
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| Pine Tree Spur-Throat Grasshopper (Melanoplus punctulatus). ID thanks to Brandon Woo. |
Groundnut (Apios americana) |
Leaf-footed bug nymph on Creeping Cucumber |
Leafhopper (Sibovia occatoria) |
Little White Morning Glory (Ipomoea lacunosa) |
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| Long-jawed orb weaver |
Mock Strawberry (Duchesnea indica) |
Planthopper (Mysidia mississippiensis) |
Juvenile Six-spotted Fishing Spider |
Southern Crabgrass |
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| Swamp Smartweed (Persicaria hydropiperoides) |
Smallspike False Nettle (Boehmeria cylindrica) |
Common Wingstem (Verbesina alternifolia) |
Smallspike False Nettle (Boehmeria cylindrica) |
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Durham, NC 8/16/20
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| Common Boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum) |
Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis) |
Creeping Cucumber (Melothria pendula) |
Green Treefrog |
Last flower on the Horseweed (Erigeron canadensis) |
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| Horseweed seedhead |
Horseweed seedheads |
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Durham, NC 8/14/20
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| Red-headed Bush Cricket displaying, apparently to another on the same leaf |
Cutleaf Coneflower (Rudbeckia laciniata) |
Planthopper (Mysidia mississippiensis) |
Planthopper Parasite Moth larva (maybe Fulgoraecia exigua) |
Argid sawfly |
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| Orb weaver (Mangora placida) |
Swamp Agrimony (Agrimonia parviflora) |
More Swamp Agrimony (Agrimonia parviflora) |
Flowers of a Smallspike False Nettle (Boehmeria cylindrica) |
Flowers of mystery plant |
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| Smallspike False Nettle (Boehmeria cylindrica) |
Mystery wildflower, maybe a vervain. |
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Durham, NC 8/13/20
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| Ambush bug nymph |
Broad-shouldered Sharpshooter |
Leaf-footed bug nymph |
Creeping Cucumber flower |
Ripe Creeping Cucumber fruit |
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| Ripening Creeping Cucumber fruit |
Unripe Creeping Cucumber fruit |
Groundnut (Apios americana) |
Leaf-footed bug on Creeping Cucumber fruit |
Ragweed Leaf Beetle |
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| Ragleaf Leaf Beetle |
Robber fly (Efferia aestuans) |
Virgin's Bower (Clematis virginiana) |
More Virgin's Bower |
Tiny weevil |
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Katydid |
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| Northern Pearly Eye |
Orchard Spider |
Robber fly (Promachus genus) |
Mystery wildflower |
Male Zabulon Skipper |
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| Sericea Lespedeza (Lespedeza cuneata) |
Carolina Horsenettle (Solanum carolinense) |
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Durham, NC 8/11/20
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| Creeping Cucumber (Melothria pendula) fruit |
Creeping Cucumber (Melothria pendula) leaf, fruit, and flower |
Sassafras leaves, showing the different shape patterns |
Spreading Yellow False Foxglove (Aureolaria patula) |
Southern Magnolia (Magnolia grandifolia) |
Durham, NC 8/9/20
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| Jumping spider (Hentzia palmarum), turned artificially purple by the low light |
Triangulate Orb Weaver (dorsal view) |
Triangulate Orb Weaver (ventral view) |
Spotted Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis) |
Web |
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| False Dandelions (Hypochaeris radicata) |
Fly |
Hearts-a-bustin' (Euonymus americanus) fruit |
American Hophornbeam (Ostrya americana) |
Pink ironweed (Vernonia genus) variant |
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| Typical purple ironweed |
Crambid snout moth caterpillar (Hahncappsia neomarculenta). ID thanks to
George Smiley. |
Sericea Lespedeza (Lespedeza cuneata) |
Climbing Hempvine (Mikania scandens) |
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| Fishing spider (Dolomedes genus) with egg sacs on Stickywilly |
Fishing spider (Dolomedes genus) with leafhopper or aphid prey |
Teneral Eastern Pondhawk |
Red-headed Bush Cricket |
Rough Buttonweed (Diodella teres) |
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| Southern Crabgrass (Digitaria ciliaris) |
Flowers of Southern Crabgrass (Digitaria ciliaris) |
Toy plane in flight |
Same plane |
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| Warty leaf beetle |
Same warty leaf beetle |
Same warty leaf beetle |
Probably Common Boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum) |
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Durham, NC 8/7/20
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| Feather-legged Orb Weaver (Uloborus glomosus) with egg sac, on underside of a sycamore leaf |
Marbled Orb Weaver |
Planthopper (Mysidia mississippiensis) |
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| Swamp Agrimony (Agrimonia parviflora) flowers and buds |
Swamp Agrimony (Agrimonia parviflora) leaves and flowers |
More Swamp Agrimony (Agrimonia parviflora) flowers |
Wandering Glider |
Horseweed (Erigeron canadensis) seedhead |
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| Leafhopper (Sibovia occatoria) |
Normal rainbow |
Rainbow with interruptions |
Wasp (Scolia nobilitata) |
Spined Assassin Bug nymph |
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| Probably Rough Buttonweed (Diodella teres) |
Mystery caterpillar |
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Durham, NC 8/6/20
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| Heal-all (Prunella vulgaris) |
Leafhopper (Graphocephala versuta) |
Sharpwing Monkeyflower (Mimulus alatus) |
St. Andrew's Cross (Hypericum hypericoides) |
Common St. John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum) |
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| Triangulate Orb Weaver |
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Durham, NC 8/4/20
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| Sericea Lespedeza (Lespedeza cuneata) bud, from China and invasive |
Froghopper nymph, with a bit of foam still on it |
Same froghopper nymph, later |
Red-headed Bush Cricket nymph |
Adult Red-headed Bush Cricket |
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| Mating Swamp Milkweed Beetles |
Black Vulture |
Red-necked Cane Borer |
Great Blue Skimmer |
Web |
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| Mottled Tortoise Beetle |
Same Mottled Tortoise Beetlle |
Golden Tortoise Beetle |
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Durham, NC 8/2/20
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| False Dandelion (Hypochaeris radicata) seedhead |
Goldenrod (Solidago genus) |
Mushroom |
Spreading Yellow False Foxglove (Aureolaria patula) |
Swamp Rose Mallow (Hibiscus moscheutos) |
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| Glassy-winged Sharpshooter |
Male Eastern Bluebird |
Goldenrod |
Skeletonizing leaf beetle (Ophraella conferta) |
Spotted Cucumber Beetle |
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Durham, NC 8/1/20
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| Climbing Hempvine (Mikania scandens) |
Mystery eggs |
False Nutsedge (Cyperus strigosus) |
Grass? |
Seedbox (Ludwigia alternifolia) |
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| Swamp Agrimony (Agrimonia parviflora) |
White-banded Crab Spider on Dogbane Hemp |
Smallspike False Nettle (Boehmeria cylindrica) |
Close-up of the Smallspike False Nettle (Boehmeria cylindrica) |
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