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Pettigrew State Park, Washington County, NC
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| Lake Phelps. The brown color of this conifers suggests the effects of our severe summer drought. | Sycamore | Bald Cypress? |
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 | Bee Bee |
4/28/09
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| Web-spinning Sawfly (Onycholyda amplecta) | Peppered Jumping Spider | Ichneumonid wasp | Pearl Crescent | Concealer Moth (Mathildana newmanella). ID thanks to Bob Patterson. |
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| Longhorned Fairy Moth (Adela caeruleella) | Deer fly, caught while buzzing around my head. I later released it, although another that bit my leg was less fortunate. | Scorpion fly | Same scorpion fly, different view | Male Zabulon Skipper |
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| A true bug with exuvia from a recent molt stuck to a wing. It was able to fly away, however. | Flower crab spider | Snipe fly | Diurnal firefly (Ellychnia genus) | Elongate Orb Weaver with winged Eastern Subterranean Termite prey |
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| Redbelly Water Snake | Same Redbelly Water Snake. Photo by Karl D. Gottschalk |
1/1/06
This park was pleasantly warm and alive with insects and wolf spiders when we visited, during a time when both the Triangle and the Outer Banks were cold and generally miserable. This apparently wasn't an anomalous warm spell: we went from cold to warm to cold all in the same day traveling to the coast.
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| Sleepy Orange, Pettigrew family cemetery, Pettigrew State Park, Washington County, NC, 1/1/06. Stage II. This one was a big surprise! |
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