| Field and Swamp: Animals and Their Habitats |
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November 2010
American Tobacco Trail (Miles 4-6), Durham, NC 11/22/10
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| Jumping plant louse (Psyllidae family, Psylloidea superfamily, Sternorrhyncha suborder, Hemiptera order) | Same jumping plant louse, about to fly. It was about 2 mm long. | A view from the trail to a Woodcroft neighborhood. | Wildflower |
Penny's Bend Nature Preserve, Durham, NC 11/21/10
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| Northern Cricket Frog | Pearl Crescent | Speckled Sharpshooter (Paraulacizes irrorata). See other leafhoppers. | Hepatica leaf |
Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, Orange County, NC 11/18/10
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| Passionvine in large meadow on new trail | Green-headed Coneflower (Rudbeckia laciniata) |
North Carolina Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC 11/17/10
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| Carolina Anole, apparently molting |
Mason Farm Biological Reserve, Orange County, NC 11/17/10
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| Small Milkweed Bugs on a Swamp Milkweed pod | Fall foliage at the border of one field |
Greenville, NC 11/12/10
All of these were found in an unmowed meadow.
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| Southern Skipperling | Field Cricket (Gryllus genus) | Eastern Phoebe | Ground beetle | Flower fly (Eristalinus aeneus), found on a sewer access pipe at the edge of the meadow. |
Pitt County Arboretum, Greenville, NC 11/11/10
In a small period of time, five species of flower flies (Syrphidae family) showed up.
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| Flower fly (Pseudodoros clavatus, subfamily Syrphinae) | Drone Fly (Eristalis tenax), a relatively large flower fly that looks very much like a honey bee. | Flower fly (Eristalis dimidiatus?) | Flower fly (Eristalis dimidiatus) | Flower fly (Helophilus fasciatus) |
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| Fiery Skipper | Chinese Mantis |
Pettigrew State Park, Washington County, NC 11/11/10
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| Brown Stink Bug (Euschistus servus) | Spider (Neoscona arabesca) | Spider (Neoscona domiciliorum) | Diamond-backed Froghopper | Flower fly (Eristalis transversa) |
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| Red Admiral. Photo by Karl D. Gottschalk | Halictid bee. maybe Lasioglossum genus |
River Park North , Greenville, NC 11/10/10
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| Adult aphid | Sleepy Orange | Variegated Fritillary. Photo by Karl D. Gottschalk | Cormorant. Photo by Karl D. Gottschalk | Sweet Everlasting, its Asteraceae family membership more obvious |
Greenville, Pitt County, NC 11/10/10
Seen in a large, unmowed field
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| Showy Rattlebox (Crotalaria spectabilis) |
Durham, NC 11/9/10
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| Rough Stink Bug | Closeup of a crane fly, showing the halteres (vestigial wings), which look like straight pins | Aquatic snails | Boxelder Bug |
Durham, NC 11/8/10
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| Crane flies mating, two of hundreds seen that day | Pearl Crescent | My local marsh (once a swamp) | Another view of my local marsh |
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