Home Field and Swamp: Animals and Their Habitats

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August 2024

Durham, NC 8/29/24

Butterfly Bush Robber fly (Promachus rufipes) Robber fly (Promachus rufipes) Garlic Chives Male Fiery Skipper Bumblebee on Garlic Chives

Durham, NC 8/27/24

Burnweed (Erechtites hieraciifolius) Common Lespedeza (Kummerowia striata) Marbled Orb Weaver Ticktrefoil pea vine Ticktrefoil pea flowers

Cardinal Flower buds Aster Jumping spider (Phidippus Probably a juvie Copes' Gray Treefrog Same treefrog

 
Smallspike False Nettle Sericea Lespedeza Katydid nymph Great Blue Skimmer, with spider  

 
Bumblebee on Garlic Chives Probably a juvie Copes' Gray Treefrog. Photo by Karl D. Gottschalk Large Milkweed Bug Climbing Hempvine  

Durham, NC 8/23/24

Roses from Karl Drone Fly Ailanthus Webworm Moth Jumping spider (Phidippus clarus) Seedbox

   
Dew on grass leaf Bowl-and-doily Spider Thread-waisted wasp    

     
Northern Mockingbird Same Northern Mockingbird      

Durham, NC 8/22/24

Orchard Spider (Leucage venusta) Same Orchard Spider Antmimic jumping spider (Synemosyna formica) Antmimic jumping spider (Synemosyna formica) Ironweed

 
Red-humped Caterpillar on fruit tree leaf Red-humped Caterpillars removed from fruit tree Virginia Dayflower Cardinal Flower  

 
Red-spotted Purple Same Red-spotted Purple Male Common Whitetail Great Blue Skimmer, with anomalous wing coloring  

American Tobacco Trail (miles 0-1), Durham, NC 8/21/24

Virginia Buttonweed Seedbox flower Seedbox pistil Eastern Gray Squirrel with an unusual tail Ocola Skipper

 
Sweet Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia subtomentosa) Japanese Knotweed (Reynoutria japonica) More Japanese Knotweed Large Milkweed Bug nymphs  

     
Purple Passionflower (Passiflora incarnata) Juvie Gray Catbird      

Durham, NC 8/19/24

 
Swamp Agrimony Another Swamp Agrimony Tubeworm moth Velvet Mite  

Same tubeworm moth Velvet mite St. John's Wort Sweet Joe Pye Weed Froghopper

Six-spotted Fishing Spider Same Six-spotted Fishing Spider Orb weaver (Argiope aurantia) Sweet Joe Pye Weed Hawk

     
Juvie Ruby-throated Hummingbird Mystery hummingbird      

Durham, NC 8/16/24

Virginia Dayflower Possibly Purpletop Vervain Another Purpletop Vervain Six-spotted Shining Leaf Beetle Goldenrod Spider

 
Wandering Glider Black Saddlebags Male Sachem White-crossed Seed Bug  

       
Male Common Whitetail        

Durham, NC 8/14/24

Velvet Mite Planthopper parasite moth (Epipyrops exigua) caterpillar Jumping spider (Hentzia genus) Ant carrying a pupa This might be a Common Fig (Ficus carica) fruit.

 
Large Milkweed Bug Larger Elm Leaf Beetle larva Jumpseed Malayisian False Pimpernel  

Durham, NC 8/12/24

 
Female House Finch Male Rambur's Forktail Goldenrod A patch of blue  

Durham, NC 8/10/24

 
Swamp Milkweed Beetle (Labidomera clivicollis) Same Swamp Milkweed Beetle Purple Top Vervain (Verbena bonariensis) This might be a Common Fiig (Ficus carica) fruit.  

Nut with leaf attached Planthopper parasite moth (Epipyrops exigua) Same planthopper parasite moth (Epipyrops exigua) Cutleaf Coneflower Fly Red-headed Bush Cricket and ant

Kudzu bug Larger Elm Leaf Beetle Red-headed Bush Cricket Purple Top Vervain (Verbena bonariensis) Purple Top Vervain (Verbena bonariensis)

     
Big Bluestem Fallen tree      

Durham, NC 8/9/24

Orb weaver (Mangora genus) Same orb weaver (Mangora genus) Same orb weaver (Mangora genus) Cocklebur Weevil Juvie Eastern Bluebird

 
Pachygronthid bug Wolf spider (Probably Arctosa littoralis) Same wolf spider (Probably Arctosa littoralis) Female Rambur's Forktail  

 
Monkey Grass Mushrooms Turkey Vulture Feather  

Durham, NC 8/8/24

Hurricane Debby left a giant puddle, more like a pond here.

Ground beetle swimming on giant puddle Green Heron Same Green Heron Same Green Heron Nakedstem Dewflower (Murdannia nudiflora)

Feather on giant puddle Wolf spider on giant puddle Another wolf spider on giant puddle Probably a female Mallard on giant puddle Male Eastern Bluebird

 
Pond-size puddle Another view Northern Mockingbird Mushroom  

Durham, NC 8/3/24

Virginia Dayflower Dwarf St. John's Wort Same Dwarf St. John's Wort Sweat bee Same sweat bee

 

Wild grapes Creeping Cucumber Climbing Hempvine Teneral Blue Dasher Robber fly (Promachus rufipes)

 

Northern Mockingbirds: older feeding younger       Juvie Northern Mockingbird

 

     
Male Great Blue Skimmer Spined Assassin Bug head Spined Assassin Bug      

 

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