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This month, I got to see some
Northern Cardinal hatchlings make their rapid progress toward
independence. At first, in very late May, all I could see were
some little gray things with some fuzz on them lying on the bottom of
the nest without moving. I was able to photograph a little bald
head on June 1. But they rapidly grew feathers and on June 5 were seen
walking around the nest, flapping their wings, and soon afterward left
the nest. Their parents were last seen on June 4.
Durham, NC 6/30/12
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| Cixiid planthopper |
Artificial rainbow |
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Jordan Lake, Chatham County, NC 6/30/12
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| Painted Lady on a
Buttonbush flower |
Male Spangled Skimmer |
Male Blue Dasher |
Recent metamorph Eastern
Pondhawk |
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| Flower longhorn beetle |
Ground beetle |
Maybe a wolf spider, moved
rapidly across the water |
Whirligig beetles |
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| Water boatman nymph and aquatic
snail |
Long-legged fly
(Condylostylus genus) |
Very small Trepobates
genus water strider |
Painted Lady on Buttonbush
flower |
Red-spotted Purple |
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Durham, NC 6/29/12
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| Buprestid beetle
(Acmaeodera pulchella) |
Netwinged beetle |
Damsel bug chasing another
insect that flew away |
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Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 6/28/12
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| Sharpshooter (Oncometopia
orbona) |
Dogbane Beetle |
Humpbacked Spider (Eustala
anastera) |
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Myrtle Beach State Park, Horry County 6/26/12
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| Two varieties of Firewheel |
More typical Firewheels |
Paraguayan Purslane |
Grass |
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| Dark Fishing Spider |
Male and female Golden
Silk Spiders |
Morning glories |
Rock Dove bringing nesting
material to the pier from the beach |
Rock Dove headed toward
the beach |
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| Field of Firewheels |
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Huntington Beach State Park, Georgetown County, SC
6/25/12
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| Great Egret, apparently
with an implanted radio transmitter. It caught and ate
three fish while I watched. |
Green Heron |
Green Anole (Carolina
Anole), on the boardwalk |
Double-crested Cormorant |
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| Juvenile Great Blue Heron |
Salt Marsh Mallow |
What was left of a crab
after a bird, perhaps a Green Heron, worked on it |
Wood Storks |
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Myrtle Beach, Horry County, SC 6/24/12
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| Juvenile Royal Terns |
Parasailing |
Male Boat-tailed Grackle |
A kite |
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Durham, NC 6/22/12
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| A wildly scurrying Green
June Beetle |
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Durham, NC 6/21/12
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| Rove beetle (Pinophilus genus),
seen on a sidewalk near a four-lane road on the Third Fork Creek
Trail. |
A lightning bug beetle,
with the Adobe Photoshop filter Poster Edges applied, apparently
sleeping on a glass door. |
Male American Goldfinch in
breeding plumage |
Diamond-backed Froghopper |
Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 6/20/12
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| Wavy-lined Emerald |
Eastern Mud Turtle |
Same Eastern Mud Turtle,
plastron view |
Tussock moth caterpillar |
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Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 6/19/12
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| Seed bug
(Taedia multisignata). Genus ID thanks to
WonGun Kim. |
Adult aphid |
Flower fly |
Ladybug
beetle (Cycloneda mundi) |
Carolina Wild Petunia |
Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 6/18/12
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| Ichneumon wasp |
Spotted Ladybug Beetle
(Coleomegilla maculata) |
A fruit fly (Dioxyna picciola, Tephritidae family) |
Spider |
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Mason Farm Biological Reserve, Orange County, NC
6/17/12
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| Cocklebur Weevil |
Dogbane Beetle |
Wasp (Bicyrtes fasciatus).
ID very tentative. |
I think this is a Scolia
nobilitata wasp. |
Bumblebee |
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| Dun Skipper |
Little Yellow |
Rhopalid bug (Niesthrea genus) |
Teneral Eastern Pondhawk |
Teneral Blue Dasher |
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| Weevil on aster |
An annual cultivated flower in a yard |
Leaf beetle (Colaspis
brunnea). Genus ID thanks to
Blaine Mathison. |
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Durham, NC 6/16/12
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| A long-jawed orb weaver
(Tetragnatha genus) |
Acanaloniid planthopper
nymph |
Florida Predatory Stink
Bug, heavily image-processed to eliminate excessive contrast and
to make the beak visible. |
Bug nymph (Mormidea
lugens). ID thanks to
Brandon Woo. |
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| Appalachian Brown |
Adult male Common
Whitetail |
Another picture of the
Florida Predatory Stink Bug |
Feather-legged Orb Weaver
(Uloborus glomosus) |
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American Tobacco Trail, Durham, NC 6/16/12
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| Passionflower with a
Japanese Beetle on it |
Passionflower |
Orchard Spider |
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Durham, NC 6/15/12
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| Tiny cockroach (3/4 mm long) |
Cixiid planthopper (Melanoliarus placitus). Genus ID thanks to
Brad Barnd, and species ID to
Solomon Hendrix. |
Ladybug larva |
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Durham, NC 6/14/12
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| Citrus Flatid Planthopper
(Metcalfa pruinosa) |
Broadnosed weevil |
English Ivy |
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 6/14/12
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| Rose |
Male House Sparrow |
Golden Larch (seen in
Coker Arboretum) |
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Durham, NC 6/13/12
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| Eastern Tiger Swallowtail |
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Durham, NC 6/10/12
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| Leafhopper (Graphocephala
versuta) |
Dewdrop on grass |
White-lined Burrowing Bug |
Leaffooted bug nymph |
Rice Stink Bug |
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| Leatherwing beetle |
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Durham, NC 6/9/12
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| Perhaps one the little
Northern Cardinals that left the nest four days previously |
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Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 6/8/12
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| Elephant
Mosquito |
Common
Shore Beetle (Cicindela repanda), very worn |
Crab spider
(Misumessus oblongus) |
Weevil (Lixus genus) |
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| Dion Skipper |
Pearl Crescents |
Leafhopper |
Wasp (Scolia nobilitata) |
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| Weevils |
One weevil starts moving |
Now it's starting to go
around behind the other weevil |
Now the moving weevil
seems to attack the other |
Then it moved away (this
thumbnail seems to have been rotated -90°.) |
Museum of Life and Science, Durham, NC 6/7/12
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Belted Kingfisher |
Butterflies (maybe
Postmans) doing a mating ritual |
Butterfly |
Butterfly |
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| Wild geranium (Geranium maculatum) |
Black Bear bathing |
Same Black Bear |
Great Blue Heron |
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| Tumbling flower beetles on
Queen Anne's Lace |
St. John's Wort |
An Asian leaf insect
(Phyllium giganteum) |
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Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 6/7/12
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| Probably a Brown Stink Bug
(Euschistus servus) |
Pennsylvania Smartweed |
Little Wood Satyr |
Pearl Crescent |
Another Pearl Crescent |
Durham, NC 6/5/12
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| Northern Cardinal
babies early this morning |
Somewhat later |
One bird has disappeared. |
Hopper nymph (Oncometopia
genus) |
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| Bee fly, Villa genus |
Megachilid bee (Megachile
xylocopoides) on Coreopsis |
Acanaloniid planthopper
nymph |
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Durham, NC 6/4/12
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| Northern
Cardinals |
Later in the day |
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Eno River State Park, Old Cole
Mill Road access, NC 6/3/12
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| Fish, maybe a trout, about
6 inches long, near Bobbitt Hole |
Breeding male Five-lined
Skink, actually oriented vertically at the time |
Toad bug, near Bobbitt
Hole |
Horse fly (Tabanus
fulvulus) |
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| Dion Skipper |
Young mantid (about 1 inch long) |
Northern Pearly Eye |
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Mason Farm Biological Reserve, Orange County, NC
6/2/12
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| Appalachian Brown |
Emerald Euphoria
(Euphoria fulgida) |
Bumblebees, flower
longhorn beetle on Common Milkweed |
Little Wood Satyr |
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| Zebra Swallowtail |
Tumble flower beetle |
Northern Pearly Eye |
Helmetflower |
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Durham, NC 6/2/12
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| Common Buckeye |
Spider |
Plant bug (Deraeocoris genus) |
Acanaloniid planthopper
nymph |
Acanaloniid planthopper
nymph |
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| Flower flies (Toxomerus genus) mating |
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Durham, NC 6/1/12
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| Baby bird in nest out front |
Katydid on a Coreopsis
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