|
|
Durham,
NC 6/30/15
 |
|
|
|
|
| Sweat bee
(Agapostemon genus) |
|
|
|
|
Mason
Farm Biological Reserve, Orange County, NC 6/28/15
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
| Bush katydid nymph (Scudderia genus) |
Red-spotted Purple |
Male Widow Skimmer |
Flower longhorn beetle |
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Teneral Eastern Pondhawk |
Male Blue Dasher |
Male Slaty Skimmer |
Male Great Blue Skimmer |
Viceroy |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Morning glory |
Two eggs |
More eggs |
Transitional adult male Eastern
Pondhawk |
Durham, NC 6/28/15
Durham,
NC 6/25/15
 |
 |
|
|
|
| Running
crab spider (Tmarus genus) |
Beetle |
|
|
|
Durham,
NC 6/24/15
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Lace bug |
Common Buckeye |
Red Admiral |
Green Heron |
Flatid planthopper |
 |
|
|
|
|
| Teneral Great Blue Skimmer |
|
|
|
|
Durham, NC 6/23/15 (seen at night)
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Leafhopper
(Gyponana cacumina or melanota) |
Leafhopper
(Jikradia olitoria) |
Leafhopper
(Exitianus
exitiosis) |
Rhyparochromid bug (Oxophora picturata) |
Cryptocephalid beetle |
 |
 |
|
|
|
| Silktree flowers |
Fowler's Toad |
|
|
|
Durham,
NC 6/22/15
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Acanaloniid
planthopper nymph |
Pelecinid wasp ovipositing on
leaf |
Luna Moth Caterpillar |
Issid planthopper (Thionia
genus) nymph |
Leafhopper (Sibovia occatoria) |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Stink bug
nymph |
Leafhopper |
Mantis nymph |
Net-winged beetle |
May Beetle |
Durham,
NC 6/21/15
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
| Acanaloniid
planthopper nymph |
Bug |
Fowler's Toad |
Orchard Spider |
|
Durham,
NC 6/20/15
 |
 |
 |
|
|
| Tachinid
fly (Zelia genus, Dexiini tribe). ID thanks to
John F. Carr. |
Scarab beetle |
Wolf spider |
|
|
Burlington, Alamance County, NC 6/18/15
 |
|
|
|
|
| Dobsonfly |
|
|
|
|
Boone
Gardens, Watauga County, NC 6/17/15
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Great
Spangled Fritillary on Common Milkweed |
Dogbane
Beetle |
Goatsbeard |
Silver-spotted Skipper on Dogbane |
Red
Milkweed Beetle |
Boone, Watauga County, NC 6/17/15
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Snipe fly
(Chrysopilus quadratus) |
Twelve-spotted Skimmer |
Summer Azure |
Yellow Flag Iris |
Tiny scarab
beetle on Oxeye Daisy |
Moses Cone Memorial Park, Watauga County, NC 6/17/15
 |
 |
 |
|
|
| Swan |
Flower fly |
Wildflower |
|
|
Blue Ridge Parkway, Watauga County, NC
6/16/15
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Robber fly |
Flower fly |
Deptford pink
(Dianthus armeria) |
Mountain Laurel |
Silver-spotted Skipper |
Tanawha Trail, Watauga County, NC 6/16/15
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
| Gray's Lily flower
(Lilium grayi) |
Crane fly |
Indian
Cucumber Root |
Beetleweed (Galax urceolata) |
Linn Cove
Viaduct, seen from the Tanawha Trail |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
| Robber fly
(Dioctria genus?) |
|
|
|
|
Boone, Watauga County, NC 6/16/15
 |
| Male
Red-winged Blackbird |
Boone, Watauga County, NC 6/15/15
 |
 |
 |
|
|
| Flower fly |
Robin |
Wildflower
(Spiraea japonica) |
|
|
Boone, Watauga County, NC 6/14/15
 |
 |
 |
|
|
| Eastern
Garter Snake, wriggled in and out of the grass. On greenway. |
Great
Spangled Fritillary, at the drainage pond |
Leafhopper,
on greenway |
|
|
Durham,
NC 6/13/15
 |
 |
|
|
|
| Flatid planthopper
nymphs. The white stuff is growing in multiple places on its
body. |
Duskywing |
|
|
|
Durham,
NC 6/12/15
 |
 |
|
|
|
| Little Grass Frog |
Same Little
Grass Frog |
|
|
|
Durham,
NC 6/11/15
 |
|
|
|
|
| Black Rat Snake |
|
|
|
|
Mason
Farm Biological Reserve, Orange County, NC 6/10/15
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
| Orchard Spider |
Male Great Blue Skimmer |
Juvenile Five-lined Skink |
Teneral Great Blue Skimmer |
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Rice Stink Bug |
Long-legged fly |
Teneral Great Blue Skimmer |
Helmetflower |
Moth |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Katydid
nymph (Scudderia genus) |
Sleepy Orange |
Eggs and exuvia |
Black Rat Snake |
Common Buckeye |
Durham,
NC 6/8/15
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Acanaloniid
planthopper nymph |
Another
acanaloniid planthopper nymph |
Long-legged fly |
Ebony Jewelwing |
Bee |
Durham,
NC 6/7/15
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Velvet ant (Sphaeropthalma pensylvanica). ID thanks to Jordan Gesell. |
Same velvet ant |
Orchard Spider |
Orchard Spider |
Planthopper (dorsal view) |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| A Black
Racer, which retreated underground as I came closer |
Beetle |
Fly |
Hump-backed
Orb Weaver |
Planthopper |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
| Shield-backed katydid |
Katydid nymph |
Pearl Crescent |
|
|
Durham, NC 6/6/15
 |
|
|
|
|
| Leafcutter
bee on Daisy Fleabane |
|
|
|
|
Prairie Ridge Ecostation,
Raleigh, Wake County, NC 6/5/15
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Pipevine Swallowtail |
Another
Pipevine Swallowtain (male) |
Red
Milkweed Beetle |
Seven-spotted Ladybug Beetle |
American Lady |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Wild onion |
Cryptocephalid beetle larva |
Plant bug
(Hyaliodes vitripennis). ID thanks to WonGun Kim. |
Female
House Sparrow (seen in downtown Raleigh, actually) |
Red-winged Blackbird |
Durham, NC 6/4/15
 |
|
|
|
|
| Basilica Spider |
|
|
|
|
Durham, NC 6/1/15
 |
|
|
|
|
| Male Purple
Martin |
|
|
|
|
|
