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Durham, NC 9/30/25
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| Pond edge |
Tachinid fly |
Sweetgum leaf |
Quince flower |
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| Pearl Crescent |
Same Pearl Crescent |
Same Pearl Crescent |
Mushrooms |
Green Stink Bug nymph, 5th instar |
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| Goldenrod |
Frost Asters |
More Frost Asters |
Male Fiery Skipper |
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Durham, NC 9/22/25
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| Green Stink Bug adult |
Green Stink Bug nymph, 5th instar |
Leaf-footed bug nymphs |
Common Scorpion Fly |
Wavy-lined Emerald caterpillar (Camouflaged Looper) on Pennsylvania Smartweed |
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| Green Creeping Cucumber fruit |
Black Creeping Cucumber fruit |
Common Buckeye |
Same Common Buckeye |
Arrowleaf Tearthumb patch |
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| Creeping Cucumber vine |
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Durham, NC 9/20/25
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| Marbled Orb Weaver, ventral view |
Marbled Orb Weaver, dorsal view |
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Durham, NC 9/18/25
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| Breeding male Common Yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas) |
Creeping Cucumber fruits |
Creeping Cucumber |
Least Skipper |
Same Least Skipper |
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| Ruby-throated Hummingbird |
Ruby-throated Hummingbird |
Pearl Crescent |
Pearl Crescent |
Northern Mockingbird |
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| Spotted Cucumber Beetle |
Scarlet Rosemallow |
Sachem on Common Wingstem |
Leptospron genus |
Aphids on mystery plant |
Fort Macon State Park, Atlantic Beach, Carteret County, NC 9/14/25
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| Dune Bluecurls (Trichostema nesophilum) |
Monarch on Pennsylvania Smartweed |
Orb Weaver with dragonfly prey |
Salt Marsh Morning Glory flowers |
Eastern Black Nightshade (Solanum ptycanthum) |
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| Vegetation bordering a pond |
Duckweed-laden pond |
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Alice Hoffman Trail, North Carolina Aquarium, Pine Knoll Shores, NC 9/13/25
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| Juvie Tricolored Heron escaping from crab |
Adult Tricolored Heron |
Another Tricolored Heron |
Holly Tree |
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| Southern Seaside Goldenrod (Solidago mexicana) |
Snowy Egret |
Pine pollen in the water |
Osprey |
Juvie Little Blue Heron |
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| Gulf fritillary on other side of inlet |
Great Egret |
Great Egret flying |
Crab shell |
Maybe a crab shell |
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| Bald Eagle, apparently captive |
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Atlantic Beach, Carteret County, NC 9/13/25
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| Wave |
Mystery spider clinging to leaf |
Sanderling |
Same Sanderling |
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| Ruddy Turnstone |
Same Ruddy Turnstone |
Pink Fuzzybean |
Brown Pelican |
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Fort Macon State Park, Carteret County, NC 9/12/25
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| Velvet ant (Timulla vagans) |
Trumper Creeper fruits |
Semi-palmated Sandpiper, in a duckweed-covered pond |
Rusty Spider Wasp (Tachypompilus ferrugineus) |
Same Rusty Spider Wasp (Tachypompilus ferrugineus) |
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| Royal Tern |
Frogfruit |
Dune Bluecurls |
Cloudless Sulphur on a Salt Marsh Morning Glory |
Cloudless Sulphur |
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| Teneral Blue Dasher |
Atlantic Dunerobber (Laphystia litoralis), on the beach, but on a trail leading to the water |
Juvie White Ibis |
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Hoop Pole Creek Trail, Atlantic Beach, Carteret County, NC 9/11/25
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| House on island, with boardwalk leading to it |
American Beautyberry |
Another American Beautyberry |
Paper Mulberry |
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| Woodland Lettuce (Lactuca floridana) flower and seedheads |
Woodland Lettuce flower |
Woodland Lettuce flower and leaf |
Flowering portion of Woodland Lettuce |
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Atlantic Beach, Carteret County, NC 9/11/25
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| Tumbling flower beetle (Mordella genus), about thrip-size |
Whorled Pennywort blooms |
Swamp Rosemallow (Hibiscus moscheutos) |
Prickly Pears |
Pink Fuzzybean flowers and beans |
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| Pink Fuzzybean flowers and beans |
Pink Fuzzybean flowers and beans |
Green Lynx Spider with leaf-footed bug prey and small flies |
Green Lynx Spider with leaf-footed bug prey and small flies |
Maybe a lesser dung fly (Sclerocoelus genus) |
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| Firewheels in grass |
Firewheels on dune |
Anomalous Firewheel |
Another mostly anomalous Firewheel |
Yellow Firewheel |
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| Dune Camphorweed |
Mystery bugs |
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Durham, NC 9/8/25
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| Common Buckeye |
Common Buckeye pair |
Common Buckeye pair |
Axilflower (Mecardonia acuminata) |
Beefsteak Plant |
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| Bumblebee |
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Female House Finch |
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| Pearl Crescent |
Another Pearl Crescent |
Yet another Pearl Crescent |
Spotted Jewelweed patch |
Scarlet Rosemallow |
Durham, NC 9/5/25
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| Thread-waisted wasp |
Female Fiery Skipper |
Female Fiery Skipper |
Female Fiery Skipper |
Female Fiery Skipper |
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| European Honeybee |
Female Fiery Skipper |
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Durham, NC 9/4/25
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| Pearl Crescent |
Same Pearl Crescent |
Scuppernong Grape fruit |
Mystery skipper |
Male Fiery Skipper |
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| Male Fiery Skipper |
Male Fiery Skipper |
Teneral Blue Dasher |
Teneral Blue Dasher |
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Durham, NC 9/2/25
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| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
Scarlet Rosemallow |
Twelve-spotted Skimmer |
Marsh Fleabane |
Spotted Fireworm Moth (Choristoneura parallela) |
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| Spotted Jewelweed seedhead and seeds |
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Durham, NC 9/1/25
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| Sleepy Orange |
Same Sleepy Orange |
Wasp |
Same wasp |
Clouds |
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| American Burnweed |
Same American Burnweed |
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