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Durham, NC 5/29/26
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| Long-jointed beetle (Arthromacra robinsoni) |
Six-spotted Green Tiger Beetle |
Carolina Anote |
Male Violet Dancer? |
Mite |
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| Meadow Garlic |
Tarnished Plant Bug on fleabane |
Billbug on fleabane |
Jumping spider (Phidippus putnami) |
Jumping spider (Phidippus putnami) |
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| Antmimic jumping spider (Synemosyna formica) |
Funnel web spider |
Red-shouldered Hawk |
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Durham, NC 5/26/26
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| Fungus beetle (Eurymycter fasciatus), Durham, NC, 52626 |
Leafhopper nymph |
Spotted Cucumber Beetle |
Boxelder Bug nymph |
Asian Multi-colored Lady Beetle |
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| Cross Orbweaver (Araneus diadematus) |
Yellow Passionflower vine |
Tiny lady beetle (Hyperaspis octonotata) |
Plant bug |
Jumping spider (Phidippus otiosus) |
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| Mantis nymph |
Ghost spider (Wulfila albens) |
Ghost spider (Wulfila albens) |
Stink bug (Mormidea lugens) |
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| Mite (Balaustium genus) |
Another mite (Balaustium genus) |
Fungus beetle (Eurymycter fasciatus), Durham, NC, 52626 |
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Durham, NC 5/24/26
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| Sidewalk mite (Balaustium genus) |
Broad-headed Sharpshooter nymph |
Planthopper nymph |
Leaf |
Mock Strawberry fruit |
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| Frison's Soldier Beetle (Trypherus frisoni) |
Field Brome |
Spanish Bayonet |
Eastern Black Nightshade |
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Durham, NC 5/21/26
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| Chrysanthemum Lace Bug (Corythuca marmorata) |
Jumping spider (Phidippus otiosus) |
Jumping spider (Phidippus otiosus) |
Jumping spider (female Colonus sylvanus) |
Jumping spider (female Colonus sylvanus) |
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| Spittlebug |
Horsenettle |
Crab spider (Synema parvulum) |
Mock Strawberry |
Jumping spider, probably Phidippus genus |
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| Same jumping spider, probably Phidippus genus |
Biting midge, maybe Palpomyia genus |
White Avens seedhead, with two remaining petals |
Brown Stink Bug (Euschistus) nymph |
Common Vetch, with seedpods |
Whirligig mite |
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| Green Lynx Spider on fleabane |
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Durham, NC 5/16/26
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| Chipping Sparrow |
Southern Magnolia |
Carolina Cranesbill |
Beggar (Eubaphe mendica) |
Male American Persimmon with flowers |
Deertongue |
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| Venus' Looking Glass |
Shepherd's Purse |
Rabbitfoot Clover |
Eastern Mud Turtle, found crawling within a tennis court, away from the entrance, and removed to the woods |
Awl-fruited Sedge |
Six-spotted Fishing Spider on Awl-fruited Sedge |
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| Seven-spotted Lady Beetle |
Crested Sedge (Carex cristatella) |
American Black Elderberry |
Carolina Cranesbill |
Mock Strawberry |
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| Mock Strawberry flower with flower fly (Toxomerus marginatus) |
Flower fly (Toxomerus marginatus) |
Deertongue flowers |
Deertongue flower |
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Durham, NC 5/12/26
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| Jumping spider with prey |
Same jumping spider with prey |
Larger Elm Leaf Beetle |
Bowl and Doily Spider, with prey |
Gray Hairstreak |
Pearl Crescent |
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| Pearl Crescent |
Leafhopper (Chlorotettix viridius) |
Leafhopper (Tylozygus geometricus) |
Leafhopper (Scaphoideus incisus) nymph |
Same leafhopper (Scaphoideus incisus) nymph |
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| Fly |
Crab spider |
Tiny bee |
Same bee |
Meadow Garlic |
Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 5/9/26
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| Roses |
Apparently Cursed Buttercup |
Brookweed |
Ocracoke Express arriving |
Sunset in Silver Lake |
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| Fish painting by Searight |
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Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 5/8/26
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| Herring Gulls fishing together, with a large fish surfacing |
The same two Herring Gulls |
Mystery plant |
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| Sunset at Silver Lake |
Hedge Bindweed |
Northern Mockingbird |
Feral cat |
Another feral cat. Apparent wound is just a splash of sunlight. |
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| Laughing Gulls on roof |
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Ocracoke Beach, Hyde County, NC 5/8/26
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| Breeding Sanderling |
Breeding Sanderling |
Breeding Sanderling with prey |
Ring-billed Gull? |
Willet |
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| Herring Gull |
Prickly Pear flower |
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Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 5/6/26
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| Roses |
Whitetop sedges |
Sunset on Silver Lake |
Pink Wood-sorrel |
Dewberries |
Love, from an anonymous artist |
Springer's Point Nature Preserve, Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 5/6/26
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| Dune Groundcherry (Physalis walteri) |
Coral Honeysuckle |
Little Quaking Grass |
Lined Orbweaver |
Royal Tern |
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| Fowler's Toad |
Dewberry |
Hedge Bindweed |
Foam on the Atlantic Ocean shore |
American Sea Rocket |
Buttercup |
Ocracoke (downtown), Hyde County, NC 5/5/26
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| Hungry Laughing Gull offspring pesters mother for food |
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| Same hungry Laughing Gull offspring pesters mother for food |
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Fleabane |
Lighthouse |
Sunset at Silver Lake |
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| Beach ball |
Royal Tern |
Same Royal Tern |
Fish |
More fish |
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| Juvie Northern Mockingbird, with tiny prey |
Mother Northern Mockingbird with begging offspring |
Mother Northern Mockingbird with same offspring |
Juvie Northern Mockingbird |
Blue Pigroot |
Birdfoot Trefoil |
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| Eurasian Collared Dove |
Roses |
Birdfoot Trefoil |
Brookweed |
Brookweed, Blue-eyed Grass |
Blue-eyed Grass |
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| Juvie Northern Mockingbird |
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Virginia Spiderwort |
Kentucky Bluegrass |
Ocracoke Express |
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| Ocracoke Express and ferry |
Two-flower Melic Grass |
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Ocracoke Beach, Hyde County, NC 5/4/26
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| Sandwich Tern |
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Sanderling with prey |
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| Male breeding Black-bellied Plover |
Same male breeding Black-bellied Plover |
Willet |
Willet |
Ring-billed Gull |
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| Breeding Sanderling |
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Breeding male Black-bellied Plover |
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Ocracoke (downtown), Hyde County, NC 5/4/26
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| Killdeer |
Same Killdeer |
Same Killdeer |
Male Red-winged Blackbird |
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| Barn Swallow |
Female Red-winged Blackbird |
Male Red-winged Blackbird |
Firewheel |
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| Sleepy Catchfly (Silene antirrhina) flowers |
Sleepy Catchfly (Silene antirrhina) flower seedheads |
Brown Pelican |
Common Starling |
Same Common Starling |
Male House Sparrow |
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| Sunset at Silver Lake |
Roses |
Hibiscus |
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Ocracoke (on Silver Lake), Hyde County, NC 5/3/26
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| Mother and offspring Laughing Gulls: cuteness first |
Mother and offspring Laughing Gulls: begging comes next |
Sleepy Catchfly flowers |
Sleepy Catchfly seedheads |
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Pamlico Sound, Hyde County, NC 5/3/26
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| Sandwich Tern |
Royal Tern |
Royal Tern |
Laughing Gull |
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| Dark-winged fungus gnat (Odontosciara nigra), actually on the ferry |
Mostly Double-crested Cormorants on the shore and Brown Pelicans in the greenery |
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Swan Quarter, Hyde County, NC 5/3/26
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| Cornsalad |
Morning glory |
Thistle |
Bee and wasp on fleabane |
Flower fly (Toxomerus genus) on fleabane |
Durham, NC 5/1/26
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| Cabbage White |
Land Cress (Barbarea verna) |
Female Eastern Bluebird |
Juvie Eastern Bluebird |
Male American Persimmon |
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| Yellow Jacket eating sap |
Fly eating sap |
Little Fruit Fly |
Little Fruit Flies |
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| Male American Persimmon flowers |
Hearts-a-bustin' flowers |
Hearts-a-bustin' flowers |
Southern Blue Flag Iris |
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| Spider web with seeds |
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