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Durham, NC 7/30/22
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| Swamp Agrimony (Agrimonia parviflora) |
Another Swamp Agrimony (Agrimonia parviflora) |
Unusual Swamp Agrimony (Agrimonia parviflora) flower |
Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta) |
Dogday cicada |
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| Creeping Cucumber (Melothria pendula) |
Juvie female Eastern Bluebird |
Male American Goldfinch |
Same male American Goldfinch |
Grasshopper caught in spider web |
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| Leaf-footed bugs, mating |
Sensitive plant (Mimosa pudica), without flowers |
Juvie Northern Mockingbird |
Mystery plane, with no markings |
Red-headed Bush Cricket |
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| St. Andrew's Cross (Hypericum hypericoides) |
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Durham, NC 7/29/22
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| Big Bluestem (Andropogon gerardi) |
Large Milkweed Bug |
Straw-colored Flatsedge, aka False Nutsedge (Cyperus strigosus) |
Mystery fly |
Glassy-winged Sharpshooter |
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| Jumping spider (female Colonus sylvanus) |
Ocola Skipper |
Paper wasp |
Pickerelweed (Pontedaria cordata) |
Male Zabulon Skipper |
Durham, NC 7/28/22
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| Swamp Agrimony (Agrimonia parviflora), Durham, NC |
Cooper's Hawk, which was met with hostility from local crows. |
Male Eastern Bluebird |
Funnel Web Spider |
Dew-laden grass in the early morning |
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| Female Great Blue Skimmer |
Large Milkweed Bug, on a Common Milkweed seed pod |
Northern Mockingbird in flight |
Juvie Northern Mockingbird |
Another juvie Northern Mockingbird |
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| Juvie Northern Mockingbird |
Juvie Northern Mockingbird with dogday cicada prey |
Clasping Leaf St. John's Wort (Hypericum gymnanthum) |
Trumpet Creeper |
Virginia Dayflower |
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| Wasp |
Orb weaver web |
Probably a Yellow Passionflower |
Male Zabulon Skipper |
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Durham, NC 7/26/22
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| Eastern Gamagrass (Tripsacum dactyloides) |
Goldenrod (Solidago genus) |
Female Great Blue Skimmer |
Male Great Blue Skimmer |
Inchworm |
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| Ironweed (Vernonia genus) |
Marbled Orb Weaver |
Same Marbled Orb Weaver |
Northern Mockingbird |
Northern Mockingbirds |
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| Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) |
Another Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) |
Trumpet Creeper (Campsis radicans) |
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Durham, NC 7/25/22
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| Velvet ant (Timulla vagans) |
Virginia Dayflower (Commelina virginica) |
Juvie ambush bug |
Another juvie ambush bug |
Pennsylvania Smartweed (Persicaria pensylvanica) |
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| Bumblebee |
Creeping Cucumber (Melothria pendula) leaf, fruit and flower |
Creeping Cucumber (Melothria pendula) fruit |
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Durham, NC 7/24/22
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| Aphids |
Asiatic Dayflower (Commelina communis) |
Carolina False Dandelion (Pyrrhopappus carolinianus) |
Cryptocephalid beetle larva |
Dogbane Beetle |
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| Mating Dogbane Beetles |
Jumping spider with spider prey |
Same spiders |
Planthopper (Rhynchomitra microrhina) |
Red-headed Bush Cricket |
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| Red-headed Bush Cricket |
Velvet Mite |
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Boone, Watauga County, NC 7/20/22
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| Arabesque Orb Weaver |
Common Hemp Nettle (Galeopsis tetrahit) |
Common Mullein (Verbascum thapsus) |
Group of Common Mullein (Verbascum thapsus) plants |
Cowbane (Cicuta virosa) |
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| Mystery dragonfly |
Carolina Horse Nettle (Solanum carolinianum) |
Jack-in-the-Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum) |
Jack-in-the-Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum) spathe |
Jack-in-the-Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum) spathe |
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| Jack-in-the-Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum) |
Japanese Snowball (Viburnum plicatum), a cultivated plant. |
Orange Sulphur |
Great Rhododendron (Rhododendron maximum) |
Scarlet Bee-balm (Monarda didyma) |
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| Juvie House Sparrow |
Spatterdock Lily (Nuphar lutea) |
Split-lipped Hemp Nettle (Galeopsis bifida) |
Steeplebushes (Spiraea tomentosa) |
Stilt-legged fly (Rainiera antennaepes) |
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| Thistle |
Trees |
Silky Dogwood (Cornus amomum) |
White Wood Aster (Eurybia divaricata) |
Common Wingstem (Verbesina alternifolia) |
Woolgrass (Scirpus cyperinus) |
Moses Cone Memorial Park, Watauga County, NC 7/19/22
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| Bee on Bearded Beggarticks (Bidens aristosa) |
Black Mustard (Brassica nigra) |
Common Buckeye |
Faded Starry Campion? |
Canadian Honewort (Cryptotaenia canadensis) |
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| Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) |
Oxeye Daisies (Leucanthemum vulgare) |
Oxeye Daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) |
Male Eastern Tailed-blue |
Ferns in rocks |
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| Fleabane |
Shaggy Soldier (Galinsoga parviflora) |
Aster seedhead |
Greater Burdock (Arctium lappa) |
Largeflower Coreopsis (Coreopsis grandiflora) |
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| Pale Jewelweed (Impatiens pallida) |
Great Rhododendron (Rhododendron maximum) |
Southern Harebells (Campanula divaricata) |
Spreading Dogbane (Apocynum androsaemifolium) |
St. John's Wort (Hypericum genus) |
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| Tall Bellflower (Campanula americana) |
Virginia Spiderwort (Tradescantia virginiana) |
White Bergamot (Monarda clinopodia) |
Another White Bergamot (Monarda clinopodia) |
American Beautyberry (Callicarpa americana) |
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| Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) |
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Boone, Watauga County, NC 7/19/22
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| Asiatic Dayflower (Commelina communis) |
Climbing Dogbane (Solanum dulcamara) |
Common Mullein (Verbascum thapsus) |
Green lacewing larva |
Meadow Garlic (Allium canadense) |
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| Purple Morning Glory (Ipomoea purpurea) |
Oxeye Daisies (Leucanthemum vulgare) |
Song Sparrow |
View of mountains from Boone's public recreation area |
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Boone, Watauga County, NC 7/18/22
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| American Bittern, migrating |
Another migrating American Bittern |
Apples |
Bee fly (Xenox tigrinus) |
Blue Vervain (Verbena hastata) |
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| Cairn |
Chicory (Cichorium intybus) |
Cllimbing Nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) |
Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriatica) |
Common Soapwort (Saponaria officinalis) |
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| Common Evening Primrose (Oenothera biennis) |
Golden Tortoise Beetle |
Dotted Hawthorn (Crataegus punctata) |
Common Hemp Nettle (Galeopsis tetrahit) |
Another Common Hemp Nettle (Galeopsis tetrahit) |
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| Ironweed (Vernonia genus) |
Lapsana communis |
Lapsana communis |
Purple Morning Glory (Ipomoea purpurea) |
Female Red-winged Blackbird |
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| Same Female Red-winged Blackbird |
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American Robin |
Scarlet Bee-balm (Monarda didyma) |
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| Boone landscape |
Song Sparrow |
St. John's Wort (Hypericum genus) |
St. John's Wort (Hypericum genus) |
Steeplebush (Spiraea tomentosa) |
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| Twice-stabbed Stink Bug (Cosmopepla lintneriana) |
Same Twice-stabbed Stink Bug (Cosmopepla lintneriana) |
Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) |
Tall Bellflower (Campanula americana) |
Thrip collecting pollen inside a morning glory |
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| Same thrip, with pollen |
Thrips interacting |
Japanese Snowball (Viburnum plicatum) seedheads |
Orb weaver web |
White Wood Aster (Eurybia divaricata) |
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| Wild Parsnip (Pastinaca sativa) |
Yellow Loosestrife (Lysimachia punctata) |
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Boone, Watauga County, NC 7/17/22
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| Silver-spotted Skipper |
Same Silver-spotted Skipper |
Sweat bee on a Black-eyed Susan |
Same sweat bee on a Black-eyed Susan |
Tachinid fly |
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| Crown Vetch (Securigera varia) |
Eastern Tailed-Blue |
Elongate springtail |
Another elongate springtail |
Heal-all (Prunella vulgaris) |
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| European Honeybee |
Hornet |
Jumping plant louse |
On a car |
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| Pennsylvania Smartweed (Persicaria pensylvanica) |
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Durham, NC 7/16/22
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| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
Same Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
Same Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
Juvie Brown Thrasher |
Great Crested Flycatcher |
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| Same Great Crested Flycatcher |
Same Great Crested Flycatcher |
Juvie Northern Mockingbird |
Northern Flicker pair |
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Small plane |
Male Eastern Pondhawk |
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| Big Bluestem (Andropogon gerardi) |
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Durham, NC 7/14/22
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| Turkey Vultures |
Flea beetle |
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Molting male Northern Cardinal |
Another male Northern Cardinal |
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| Crab spider |
Hemp Dogbane (Apocynum cannabinum) seed pods |
Hollow Joe Pye Weed (Eutrochium fistulosum) |
Leaf-footed bug nymph |
Poison Ivy (Toxicodendron radicans) fruits |
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| Red-headed Bush Cricket nymph |
American Robin |
St. Andrew's Cross (Hypericum hypericoides) |
Swamp Milkweed Beetle |
Black Vulture |
Durham, NC 7/13/22
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| Dogbane Beetles mating |
Same Dogbane Beetles |
Greenbriar (Smilax genus) fruits |
Rough Stink Bug |
Swamp Milkweed Beetle larva |
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| Annual Fleabane (Erigeron annuus) |
Carolina False Dandelion (Pyrrhopappus carolinianus) seedhead |
Carolina False Dandelion (Pyrrhopappus carolinianus) flower |
Click beetle |
Young Goldenrod Spider (Misumessus oblongus) |
Another young Goldenrod Spider (Misumessus oblongus) |
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| Mystery dragonfly |
Foam coming out from under the Third Fork Creek bridge at Woodcroft Parkway, seen from a bridge |
New York Ironweed (Vernonia novaboracensus) |
Pickerelweed (Pontederia cordata) |
Male Eastern Pondhawk |
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| Purple Martins |
Cicada Killer |
Cobweb spider (Enoplognatha ovata) |
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Durham, NC 7/12/22
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| Katydid (Scudderia furcata) on Spotted Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis) |
Same katydid (Scudderia furcata) on Spotted Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis) |
Mild Waterpepper (Persicaria hydropiper) |
Pennsylvania Smartweed |
Dew on leaf |
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| Red-headed Bush Cricket nymph |
Swamp Milkweed Beetle larva |
White-fringed Weevil (Naupactus leucoloma) |
Arrowleaf Tearthumb (Persicaria sagittata) |
Bowl-and-doily Spider (lateral view) |
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| Bowl-and-doily Spider (ventral view) |
Raindrops |
Common Groundsel (Senecio vulgaris) |
Male Fiery Skipper |
Greenbriar (Smilax genus) fruits |
Durham, NC 7/11/22
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| Appalachian Brown |
Bird dropping moth |
Blue Dasher |
Carolina False Dandelion (Pyrrhopappus carolinianus) |
Crab spider |
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| Female damselfly |
Juvie Eastern Bluebird |
Flatid planthopper |
Eastern Gamagrass (Tripsacum dactyloides) |
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| Grasshopper |
Hickory Horned Devil caterpillar |
Juvie Ruby-throated Hummingbird |
Flea beetle (Cerataltica insolita) |
Least Skipper |
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| Mural by "Rodley" |
Robber fly (Promachus rufipes) with female Eastern Pondhawk prey |
Same robber fly (Promachus rufipes) with female Eastern Pondhawk prey |
Male Sachem |
Stink bug (male Mormidea lugens) |
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| Stink bug pair (Mormidea lugens) |
Tarnished Plant Bug |
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail on Purple Joe Pye Weed (Eutrochium purpureum) |
Mystery vervain (Verbena genus) |
Leaf of same vervain plant |
Durham, NC 7/9/22
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Same crayfish. Photo by Karl D. Gottschalk |
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Durham, NC 7/7/22
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| Ambush bug |
Braconid wasp (Cremnops desertor) |
Another braconid wasp |
Carpenter Bee |
Creeping Eryngo (Eryngium prostratum) with wolf spider |
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Flower fly (Toxomerus marginatus) |
Mystery eggs |
Planthopper Parasite Moth larva |
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| White-lined Burrower Bug |
Vervain (Verbena genus). As time went on, it looked more and more like V. brasiliensis. Growing in the shade probably inhibited its growth. |
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Durham, NC 7/5/22
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| Acanaloniid planthopper nymph |
Ambush bug on Queen Anne's Lace |
Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle |
Buckeye |
Caterpillar |
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| Delta Flower Beetle |
Grass |
Leaf damage, apparently by lace bugs |
Mock Strawberry (Potentilla indica) flower |
Mock Strawberry (Potentilla indica) fruit |
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| Smallspike False Nettle (Boehmeria cylindrica) flower |
Smallspike False Nettle (Boehmeria cylindrica) flowers |
Spider |
Common St. John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum) |
Female Ebony Jewelwing |
Durham, NC 7/3/22
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| Asiatic Dayflower (Commelina communis) |
Carolina Dayflower (Commelina caroliniana) |
Another Carolina Dayflower (Commelina caroliniana) |
Another Carolina Dayflower (Commelina caroliniana) |
Carolina Wren |
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| Delta Flower Beetle |
Herbwilliam (Ptilimnium capillaceum) |
Herbwilliam (Ptilimnium capillaceum) |
European Honeybee and White-lined Burrowing Bug |
European Honeybee |
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Immature Queen Anne's Lace (Daucus carota) flowers |
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| Wasp (Scolia nobilitata) |
Slaty Skimmer |
Spotted Ladybug Beetle |
Another Spotted Ladybug Beetle |
Crabronid wasp? |
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| White-lined Burrower Bug on Herbwilliam |
Widow Skimmer |
Vervain (Verbena genus). This was probably an early form of V. brasiliensis, hampered in its development by the extreme shade. |
Same plant |
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Durham, NC 7/2/22
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| Common Whitetail |
Trash-carrying green lacewing larva |
Polished Ladybug Beetle |
Red-headed Bush Cricket |
Smallspike False Nettle (Boehmeria cylindrica) |
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| Swamp Milkweed Beetle larva |
Swamp Milkweed Beetle larva |
Florida Cooter |
Same Florida Cooter |
Same Florida Cooter |
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Durham, NC 7/1/22
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| Flower longhorn beetle on Queen Anne's Lace |
Jumping spider |
Same jumping spider |
Katydid |
Queen Anne's Lace (Daucus carota) |
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| Ambush bug nymph on Queen Anne's Lace |
Same ambush bug nymph on Queen Anne's Lace |
Robber fly (Promachus rufipes) |
Green Stink Bug nymph, which landed on me |
Same Green Stink Bug nymph |
Crabgrass |
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| Tumbling flower beetle |
Wasp |
Web |
Wild Grape |
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