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Durham, NC 5/31/24
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| Tiny bee and fleabane flowers |
Swamp Milkweed Beetle |
Sharpshooter nymph |
Acanaloniid planthopper nymph |
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| Brown Stink Bug nymph |
Billbug |
Tumbling flower beetle |
Billbug |
Beetle |
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| Pachygronthid bug |
Male Eastern Tailed-blue |
Same male Eastern Tailed-blue |
Teneral male Great Blue Skimmer |
Red Admiral |
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| Same Red Admiral |
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Durham, NC 5/30/24
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| Stink Bug (Banasa dimiata) |
Stink bug (Mormidea lugens) |
Same stink bug (Mormidea lugens) |
Spined Assassin Bug nymph |
Beetle |
Durham, NC 5/29/24
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| Hackberry Emperor |
Swamp Rose (Rosa palustris) |
Carolina False Dandelion (Pyrrhopappus carolinianus) |
Clover |
Wild Garlic (Allium vineale) |
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| Eastern Gamagrass (Tripsacum dactyloides) |
Another Eastern Gamagrass (Tripsacum dactyloides) |
White Avens (Geum canadense) |
Moon |
United airliner, with front landing gear out |
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| Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) |
Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) |
Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) with Monarch caterpillar |
Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) |
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Durham, NC 5/28/24
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| Scuttle fly |
Leafhopper (Scaphoid genus) nymph |
Leafhopper (Scaphoid genus) nymph |
Crab spider |
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Durham, NC 5/27/24
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| Seedheads of small aster |
Male Brown-headed Cowbird |
Same male Brown-headed Cowbird |
Female Brown-headed Cowbird |
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| South American Skullcap (Scutellaria racemosa) |
Spotted Jewelweed |
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Durham, NC 5/26/24
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| Climbing Dogbane (Thyrsanthella difformis) |
Climbing Dogbane (Thyrsanthella difformis) |
Climbing Dogbane (Thyrsanthella difformis) |
Creeping Eryngo (Eryngium prostratum) |
Parlin's Pussytoes faded flowers |
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| Wild Garlic (Allium vineale) |
Wild Garlic (Allium vineale) |
Closeup of dock flowers |
Jumping spider (female Pelegrina proterva) |
Orchard Spider |
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| Mock Strawberry (Potentilla indica) fruit and leaves |
Tiny spider, perhaps freshly molted |
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Durham, NC 5/25/24
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| Crab spider (Synema parvula) |
Same crab spider (Synema parvula) |
Barklouse |
Thick-headed fly (Physoephala tibialis) |
Same thick-headed fly (Physoephala tibialis) |
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| Dogbane Beetle |
Another Dogbane Beetle |
Grass |
Larger Elm Leaf Beetle |
Lanceleaf Coreopsis (Coreopsis lanceolata) |
Cremastinid wasp |
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| Leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea) |
Leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea) |
Click beetle |
Sedge |
Fly |
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| Dew on spider web |
Butterfly Weed |
Silver-spotted Skipper (dorsal view) |
Same Silver-spotted Skipper (lateral view) |
Swamp Rose (Rosa palustris) |
Same Swamp Rose (Rosa palustris) |
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| Appalachian Brown |
Wasp (Gnamptopelta obsidionator) |
Wasp (Gnamptopelta obsidionator) |
Male Eastern Pondhawk |
Turkey Vultures |
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| Male Ebony Jewelwing |
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Durham, NC 5/23/24
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| Wild Garlic (Allium vineale) blublets and leaves |
Wild Garlic (Allium vineale) blublets and leaves |
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
Eastern Gamagrass (Tripsacum dactyloides). Because of a bug in the DW software, a link to the actual photo image could not be produced. |
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| Dark-winged fungus gnat |
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Durham, NC 5/21/24
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| Orchard Spider |
Mating moths |
Teneral female Great Blue Skimmer |
Teneral Blue Dasher |
Green Heron |
Green Heron |
Durham, NC 5/20/24
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| Meadow Garlic (Allium canadense) |
Swamp Milkweed Beetle |
Another Swamp Milkweed Beetle on Common Milkweed leaf, with puzzling white stuff |
Indigo Stem Borer moth caterpillar |
Leafcutter bee? |
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| Bee, maybe leafcutter |
Spider exuvia, with mite and aphid |
Sharpshooter nymph |
Leafhopper nymph (Scaphoid genus) |
Earwig on Common Milkweed |
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| Swamp Milkweed Beetle |
Woolly Aphid |
Yellow Passionflower vine |
Fungi |
Red Admiral |
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| Appalachian Brown |
Common Baskettail |
Eastern Comma |
Meadow Garlic |
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Durham, NC 5/18/24
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| Deertongue |
Broad-shouldered Sharpshooter |
13-year Periodical Cicadas |
Spotted Jewelweed |
Jumping spider with another jumping spider as prey |
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| Chloropid fly |
Sedge |
Yerba de Tajo |
Teneral Eastern Pondhawk |
Gray Hairstreak |
Same Gray Hairstreak |
Durham, NC 5/17/24
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| Wild Onion (Alllium vineale) |
Wild Onion (Alllium vineale) |
Wild Onion (Alllium vineale) |
Long-jawed orb weaver |
Carolina Horsenettle |
May Beetle |
Durham, NC 5/16/24
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| Leech |
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Pregnant jumping spider (Hentzia palmarum) |
Same pregnant jumping spider (Hentzia palmarum) |
Narrowleaf Blue-eyed Grass |
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| Venus' Looking Glass |
Meadow Garlic (Allium canadense) |
Another Meadow Garlic (Allium canadense) |
Coreopsis |
Another Meadow Garlic (Allium canadense) |
Jumping spider (male Colonus sylvanus) |
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| Same jumping spider (male Colonus sylvanus) |
Larger Elm Leaf Beetle |
Same Larger Elm Leaf Beetle |
Deertongue |
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Penny's Bend Nature Preserve, Durham, NC 5/13/24
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| Leafhopper nymph (Jikradia olitoria) |
White mayfly |
Same white mayfly |
Inchworm |
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| Short-tailed Ichneumon Wasp |
Buttonbush Sawfly larva (Pseudosiobla excavata) |
Meadow Garlic (Allium canadense) |
Another Meadow Garlic (Allium canadense) |
Another Meadow Garlic (Allium canadense) |
Deertongue |
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| Mushrooms |
Southern Wild Comfrey seedheads |
Hearts-a-bustin (Euonymus americanus) |
Leafhopper nymph |
Oxeye Daisy |
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| Blue Wild Indigo |
Solomon's Seal |
Damselfly |
Eastern Smooth Beardtongue (Penstemon laevigatus) |
Oxeye Daisy, with fly |
American Lady |
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| Oxeye Daisies |
Green and Gold |
Ragwort |
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Durham, NC 5/11/24
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| Jumping spider (Pelegrina proterva) |
Jumping spider (Attidops youngi) |
Flower longhorn beetle (Brachyleptura rubrica) |
White Avens |
Carolina Wren |
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| Cabbage White |
Transitional male Eastern Pondhawk |
Hoverfly (Microdon genus?) |
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Durham, NC 5/10/24
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| Teneral Blue Dasher |
Flower fly (Toxomerus marginatus) |
Leaf beetle |
Fly caught by a jumping spider |
Question Mark |
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| Orchard Spider |
Least Skipper |
Purple Martin in flight |
Purple Martins back at the apartment house |
Annual Blue-eyed Grass |
Durham, NC 5/7/24
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| Mating 13-year Periodical Cicadas |
Leafhopper nymph (Scaphoid genus) |
Red-lipped Green Lacewing nymph |
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| Buprestid beetle |
Mating beetles, probably Podabrus rugosulus |
Giant Bark Aphid (Longistigma caryae) |
Mystery spider |
Jumping spider (Paraphidippus aurantius) with prey, perhaps another spider |
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| Meadow Garlic (Allium canadense) |
Swamp Milkweed Beetle |
White Clover |
Fleabane |
Same fleabane |
Antmimic jumping spider (Synemosyna formica) |
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| White Avens |
Tiny beetle |
Earwigs on Common Milkweed |
Little tree |
Mock Strawberry fruit, mostly eaten, apparently! |
Meadow Garlic (Allium canadense) |
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| Black Bean Aphid |
Leafhopper (Jikradia olitoria) nymph |
Leafhopper (Jikradia olitoria) nymph |
Leafhopper (Jikradia olitoria) nymph |
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Durham, NC 5/4/24
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| Male Rambur's Forktail |
March fly |
Annual Blue-eyed Grass |
Seven-spotted Lady Beetle |
Multiflora Rose |
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| Mesh Web Weaver (Emblyna genus) |
Male Northern Cardinal |
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Durham, NC 5/2/24
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| 13-year Periodical Cicada and exuvia |
Male Zabulon Skipper |
Jumping spider (male Pelegrina proterva) |
Barklouse |
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| Bowl-and-doily Spider |
Whirligig Mite (Anystis genus) |
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Durham, NC 5/1/24
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| Mystery spider (probably Phidippus genus) |
Same mystery spider (probably Phidippus genus) |
Jumping spider (Paraphidippus aurantius) |
Spring Azure |
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| Meadow Garlic (Allium canadense) |
Meadow Garlic (Allium canadense) |
Crab spider (Synema parvulum) |
May Beetle |
Common Scorpion Fly |
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| 13-year Periodical Cicada |
Golden-backed Snipe Fly |
Appalachian Brown |
Chinaberry (Melia azedarach) flowers |
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| Chinaberry (Melia azedarach) |
Same Chinaberry (Melia azedarach) |
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