Durham, NC 5/31/16
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| Red Admiral | Swamp Milkweed Beetle | Stink bug (Menecles insertus) | Spotted Cucumber Beetle | Mesh web weaver? |
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| Planthopper | Mock Strawberry | Mantis nymph | Longhorn beetle (Typocerus acuticauda) | Fly |
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| Acanaloniid planthopper nymph | Same Acanaloniid planthopper nymph | Tiny beetle | Tiny mating beetles |
Durham, NC 5/30/16
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Durham, NC 5/28/16
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| Damselfly | Flower fly on Southern Magnolia | Flower fly (Toxomerus genus) | Leech |
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| Longhorn flower beetle (Typocerus acuticauda) | Turtle |
Durham, NC 5/27/16
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| American Lady (dorsal) | Same American Lady (ventral) | Common Buckeye | Teneral Great Blue Skimmer | Ant with prey |
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| Cabbage White | Male Zabulon Skipper | Same Zabulon Skipper | Rove beetle | Spotted Cucumber Beetle |
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| Southern Magnolia flower | Swamp Rose | Juvie male Purple Martin | Purple Martins | Male Purple Martin in flight |
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| Eastern Phoebe |
Durham, NC 5/25/16
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| Male Northern Cardinal | Female Eastern Bluebird | Common Buckeye |
Durham, NC 5/24/16
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| Appalachian Brown | Spider wasp? | Female Northern Cardinal | Caterpillar | Flower fly |
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| Jumping spider (Paraphidippus aurantius) | Same jumping spider | Another Paraphidippus aurantius | Tiny orb weaver | Flower fly |
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| Fly | Ground beetle | Japanese Beetle | Tiny moth | Tarnished Plant Bug |
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| Tufted Titmouse | Wasp | Woolly aphid | Same woolly aphid | Planthopper (Pissonotus brunneus). ID thanks to Yurika Alexander. |
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| Stink bug |
Durham, NC 5/23/16
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| Fledgling American Robin | Adult American Robin | Eastern Gray Squirrel | Another Eastern Gray Squirrel with an unusual tail | Common Starling |
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| This is Duke University's neighborhood. | A swallow in flight |
Durham, NC 5/22/16
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| Argid sawfly | Asian Multicolored Ladybug Beetle | Dogbane Beetle | Female Eastern Tailed-Blue | Picture-winged fly |
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| Wheel Bug nymph |
Durham, NC 5/21/16
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| Bee | Damselfly | Downy Woodpecker | Eastern Tailed-blue | Fowler's Toad |
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| Jumping spider (male Colonus sylvanus | Moth | Planthopper | Plume moth | Sawfly |
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| Seven-spotted Ladybug Beetle | Smooth Flower Spider | Song Sparrow | Warty Leaf Beetle | Same Warty Leaf Beetle |
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| White-lined Burrowing Bug | Little Glassywing |
Durham, NC 5/20/16
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| Male Eastern Bluebird | Common Milkweed | Damselfly | Fowler's Toad | Mating crane flies |
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| Female House Finch, in the marsh |
Durham, NC 5/16/16
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| Appalachian Brown | Another Appalachian Brown | Question Mark | Female or teneral Eastern Pondhawk | Picture-winged fly |
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| Jumping spider | Dark Fishing Spider | American Lady | Another Appalachian Brown |
Durham, NC 5/15/16
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| Appalachian Brown | Barklouse (Metylophorus novaescotiae) nymph. ID thanks to Diane Young. | Blue Dasher | Teneral Blue Dasher | Apple Maggot |
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| Purseweb Spider (Sphodros atlanticus) | Tarnished Plant Bug | Arabesque Orb Weaver | Clubtail | Damselfly |
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| Eastern Tailed-Blue | Long-legged fly | Male Purple Martin | First-instar Spined Soldier Bug nymph | Toxomerus genus flower fly |
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| Purple Martins | Red-shouldered Hawk taking off | Red-shouldered Hawk pair |
Durham, NC 5/14/16
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| Blowfly | Wolf spider? |
Durham, NC 5/13/16
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| Weevil (Lechriops oculata) | Spider | Venus' Looking Glass | Female Common Scorpion Fly | Tiny fly |
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| Marsh fly | Big spider, w/ imperfect focus-stacking | Broadhead Skink |
Durham, NC 5/12/16
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| Jumping spider (male Colonus sylvanus). Two of the hind legs seem to come out of nowhere because that part of the legs is paler. | Grasshopper nymph | Mating moths | Dusky Ladybug Beetle (Scymnus genus) |
Corte Madera Marsh Ecological Reserve, Marin County, CA 5/9/16
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| Anise Swallowtail (Papilio zelicaon) | Black-necked Stilt | American Avocet | Snowy Egret | Gulls and White Pelican |
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| California Towhee | Mallards | Two of the same mallards | Moth | Western Grebe |
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| Red-winged Blackbird | Canada Geese |
Abbott's Lagoon, Port Reyes National Seashore, Marin County, CA 5/8/16
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| Bobcat | Bobcat looking at us | Male California Quail | Another male California Quail | Click beetle |
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| Mating Common Shore Tiger Beetles (male has reduced markings) | Familiar Bluet (Enallagma civile), seen near pond close to ocean | Dancer | Midge and much larger marsh fly | Marsh fly |
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| Garden Carrion Beetle (Heterosilpha ramosa) | Maybe a juvie Ferruginous Hawk (Buteo regalis), which mimics a gull very well | Same Ferruginous Hawk | Mule Deer | Red-winged Blackbird |
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| Virginia Rail (Rallus limicola) | White-crowned Sparrow | Juvie White-crowned Sparrow | Another (adult) White-crowned Sparrow | White Pelicans, a few of a large group |
Larkspur, Marin County, CA 5/7/16
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| Treehopper (Cyrtolobus vanduzii, Smiliini tribe, Smiliinae subfamily). Genus ID thanks to Solomon Hendrix; subfamily ID thanks to Vassily Belov. | Poppies | Hummingbird | Same hummingbird | Western Grebe |
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| Flowers | San Quentin from the Route 101 bridge |
Larkspur, Marin County, CA 5/6/16
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| Male Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon subspecies) | Great Egret (breeding) | Lawrence's Goldfinch | Song Sparrow | Snowy Egret |
Larkspur, Marin County, CA 5/5/16
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| Western Fence Lizard | Male Mallard | Mating flies | Dove pair | Fiery Skipper |
San Francisco, CA 5/5/16
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| Close enough to see the Golden Gate Bridge, seen from the Marin Airporter |
Durham, NC 5/3/16
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| Fly (Leucophenga varia) | Same fly, on Bursting Heart | Same fly | Bursting Heart flower |
Durham, NC 5/2/16
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| Mysterious green beetle | Mysterious red beetle | Long-jawed orb weaver |
Durham, NC 5/1/16
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| Male Broadhead Skink | Same male Broadhead Skink | Eastern Box Turtle | Green Frog tadpole with legs, blowing a bubble | Hearts-a-bustin' flowers |