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Durham, NC 7/31/12
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| Spider (Argiope aurantia) |
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Durham, NC 7/30/12
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| Male Great Blue Skimmer |
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Durham, NC 7/29/12
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| Striped Lynx Spider |
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Durham, NC 7/27/12
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| Jumping spider (Phidippus
clarus) |
Drone Fly |
Recent metamorph Gray
(Copes?) Treefrog, with a little green dorsal color remaining |
Ocola Skipper (Panoquina
ocola) |
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| Netwinged Beetle |
Crab spider |
Wild grapes |
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Durham, NC 7/26/12
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| A thread-legged bug,
photographed at night |
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Durham, NC 7/25/12
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| Asian Multi-colored
Ladybug Beetle |
Red-headed Bush Cricket
(Phyllopalpus pulchellus) |
Horse Nettle flowers |
Flattened Sycamore Tree
flower |
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Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 7/24/12
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| Leafhopper |
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Durham, NC 7/23/12
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| Rough Stink Bug nymph |
Male Fiery Skipper |
Clubtail |
Robber fly |
Robber fly |
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| Wingstem (Verbesina
alternifolia) |
Male Great Blue Skimmer |
Male Fiery Skipper |
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Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 7/22/12
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| Subadult Five-lined Skink |
Rove beetle |
Tall Ironweed |
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Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 7/20/12
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| Seed bug, Nysius genus,
Orsillinae subfamily. ID (genus tentative)thanks to
Ken Wolgemuth. |
Appalachian Brown |
Bush cricket |
Cicada, probably moribund |
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Abbott Lake, Peaks of Otter, Bedford County, VA
7/18/12
A flock of about 25 wild turkeys (Meleagris
gallopavo) came out of the
woods to eat grass in a field near the lake dam.
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| One Wild Turkey, at one
edge of the flock |
Another Wild Turkey at the
other end, trading sentinel duty |
A part of the Wild Turkey flock |
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Otter River environs, Peaks of Otter, Bedford County,
VA 7/18/12
The Big Spring is a place where aquifer water comes
up above ground, creating a creek which travels a short distance before
merging with the Otter River, which flows from the Abbott
Lake dam. There are a few very small channels through which this
water travels, along with some brightly colored pebbles. The water
coming through these channels swirls about, spraying the pebbles in all
directions. You can see how the pebbles contrast with the brown
soil nearby.
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| The sign giving the
historical background of the spring |
This is where water comes
up from the underground aquifer, bringing with it small pebbles.
I "sharpened" these places using Adobe Photoshop CS5. |
For those with big
screens, here's a bigger view of the same. |
Here's a close-up, showing
the pebbles coming up with the swirling water. |
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| This is the creek created
by the spring. The aquifer water comes up at the far end
of this creek. |
Part of the Otter River, a
little downstream from the dam. The bottom of the lake
provides the river with a lot of red clay. |
Red-spotted Purple |
Red Admiral |
A Locust Leafminer Beetle
working on a leaf. Adults skeletonize leaves to some
extent, but most damage is done by larvae. |
Nature Trail (and various other spots), Peaks of Otter, Bedford County,
VA
7/18/12
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| Springtail |
Scorpionfly |
Barn Swallow (back at the
lodge) |
Hornet (Dolichovespula
maculata) outdoors near the lake |
Male Pipevine Swallowtail
in flight near the lake |
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| Stag with growing antlers |
Tachinid fly |
Monarch on Swamp Milkweed
at the lake |
Leafhopper (at the Visitor
Center) |
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Flat Top Mountain, Peaks of Otter, Bedford County
7/17/12
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| Mating
netwing beetles |
Red Admiral
at the side of my car |
The same
Red Admiral at the side view mirror |
Caterpillar |
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| Columbine |
Fly |
Fungi |
Fungi |
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| Starry Campion (Silene
stellata) |
Pale Jewelweed |
Indian Pipe |
Turk's Cap Lily |
Spirobolid millipede |
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| White Snakeroot |
Yellow False Foxglove, maybe |
Hairy Galinsoga or Shaggy Soldier (Galinsoga
quadriradiata) |
Scorpionfly |
After about 6 miles of
trudging up the side of this mountain on the long trail, seeing
this sign was the reward. |
Abbott Lake, Peaks of Otter, Bedford County, VA
7/17/12
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| Common Mullein, with a
Toxomerus genus flower fly |
Green Frog |
Barn Swallow |
Tree Swallow |
The lodge, from across the
lake |
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| Male Ebony Jewelwing |
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Johnson Farm, Peaks of Otter, Bedford County, VA
7/16/12
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| Male wedge-shaped beetle
trying to mount female |
Male wedge-shaped beetle |
Cuckoo wasp |
Black Cohosh |
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| Male Sachem |
Turk's Cap Lily |
Tall Bellflower |
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Abbott Lake, Peaks of Otter, Bedford County, VA 7/16/12
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| Orange Sulphur |
Cabbage White |
Female Ebony Jewelwing |
Great Blue Heron |
Spotted Jewelweed |
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| Monarch on Common Milkweed |
Silver-spotted Skipper |
Male Pipevine Swallowtail |
Widow Skimmer, maybe a
recent metamorph male |
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| Grapevine Beetle
(Pelidnota punctata) |
Locust Leafminer Beetle |
Silver-spotted Skipper |
White-tailed Deer fawn |
Male Eastern Amberwing |
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| White-tailed Deer doe |
Female Sachem on Swamp
Milkweed |
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Durham, NC 7/15/12
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| Tachinid fly |
Same tachinid fly |
Male Common Whitetail |
Probably a male Phidippus
clarus, with several filters applied |
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Durham, NC 7/14/12
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| Male Eastern Amberwing on
hop clover leaves |
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Durham, NC 7/13/12
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| Orange Sulphur |
Basilica Spider |
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Raulston Arboretum, Raleigh, Wake County, NC
7/12/12
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| Flower fly (Eristalinus
aeneus). ID thanks to
John F. Carr. |
Orange flower, with fly |
Pink flower |
Thynnid wasp (Myzinum genus) |
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North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, Wake County,
NC 7/12/12
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| Green June Beetle |
Bumblebee sitting in
flower |
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Durham, NC 7/12/12
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| Basilica Spider |
Same Basilica Spider |
Bee (Lasioglossum genus) |
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Durham, NC 7/10/12
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| Leaffooted bug nymph |
Picture-winged fly |
Tarnished Plant Bug |
Micrathena gracilis |
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| Variable Dancer |
Velvet ant |
Leafhopper (Osbornellus
genus) |
Eastern Box Turtle |
Moth (Palthis genus).
ID thanks to Chris Mallory |
Durham, NC 7/9/12
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| Long-legged fly
(Condostylus genus) |
Hoverfly (Ocyptamus
fuscipennis) |
Same hoverfly, landed |
Hackberry Emperor |
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| St. John's Wort |
Coreopses |
Wasp on Black-eyed Susan |
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Durham, NC 7/8/12
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| Cellar Spider (Phlocus phalangiodes?
certainly a member of Pholcidae). I took some liberties
with Adobe Photoshop CS5 and there were interesting results. |
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Durham, NC 7/7/12
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| Crab spider |
Rabbit, 7/7/10 |
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Durham, NC 7/6/12
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| Question Mark (dorsal
view) |
Same Question Mark
(ventral view) |
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Durham, NC 7/5/12
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| Jumping spider (Hentzia
mitrata) |
Subadult Five-lined Skink |
Ground beetle larva (maybe Chlaenius genus?)
Tentative ID provided by
Ken Wolgemuth. |
Probably a ground beetle
larva, but maybe unidentifiable |
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| Silver-spotted Skipper |
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Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 7/4/12
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| Bee fly (Lepidophora
lepidocera) |
Same bee fly (Lepidophora
lepidocera) |
A green lacewing is
carrying around this pile of "trash" for camouflage purposes |
Sharpshooter nymph
(Oncometopia genus) |
Variegated Fritillary |
Durham, NC 7/2/12
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| Elephant Mosquito on Rough
Fleabane (Erigeron strigosus) |
Phaon Crescent? |
Red-banded Hairstreak |
Dogbane Beetle |
Buffalo Treehopper |
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| Robber fly |
Sharpshooter (Oncometopia
orbona) |
Japanese Beetles |
Leaf |
Moth |
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| Male Bowl-and-doily
Spider, ventral view |
Male Bowl-and-doily
Spider, dorsal view |
Male Bowl-and-doily
Spider, lateral view |
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Durham, NC 7/1/12
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| Gray (Copes?) Treefrog
(recent metamorph). When they get older, the green
camouflage goes away. |
Japanese Beetle |
Spotted Cucumber Beetle |
Sweat bee |
Least Skipper |
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| Picture-winged fly |
Flower fly (Toxomerus
genus) |
Subadult Eastern Phoebe |
Green June Beetle,
scrambling over grass (before taking off) |
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Tiny beetle, about 1 mm
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Chipping Sparrow |
Wildflowers at my local
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