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Unusual Firewheel |
Common Buckeye |
Horace's Duskywing |
Assassin bug (Zelus genus?) |
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| Spotted Bee-balm
(Monarda punctata) |
Tread-softly |
Red-banded Hairstreak |
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5/23/11
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beetle |
Mourning Doves |
Bee fly
(Exoprosopa genus) |
Phaon Crescent |
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| Prickly Pear
flower with flower longhorn beetle. The beetle finally got out of the
flower after some struggling. |
Tread-softly
(Cnidoscolus stimulosus), a member of the spurge family. It has
stinging hairs. |
Prickly Pears with flowers |
Robber fly |
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9/28/10
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Skipper on marsh fleabane (camphorweed), Pluchea indica. One of
two seen together. ID thanks to Harry LeGrand. |
Ox beetle
(Strategus splendens) |
Gulf Fritillary
(on an oak tree) |
Milkweed Assassin
Bug |
Milkweed Assassin
Bug nymph |
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| Southern Pearly Eye |
Four bee flies (Poecilognathus genus) on an aster |
Wildflower, with
bee flies, also Poecilgnathus genus |
Cactus |
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5/13/10
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| Dung Beetle
(Canthon imitator?) |
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5/12/10
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| Spreadwing
damselfly (probably Lestes genus) |
Robber fly |
A very fast-moving
caterpillar, which crawled under more pine needles than over them |
Blueberry, with
small flowers (~7 mm long) |
Fetterbush (Lyonia
lucida), with larger flowers (~10 mm long). These were very common
in this park. |
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| Large Bee Fly (Bombilius major) |
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3/9/10
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| Winged ant apparently being
attacked by a wasp, on her abdomen,
partially obscured by her wings. |
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3/9/09
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Springtail, perhaps Tomocerus genus,
found with Beach Fleas (but not the one pictured in this row) |
Bold-based Zale
Moth (Zale lunifera),
Carolina Beach State Park, New Hanover County, NC, 3/9/09 |
Red-winged Sallow (Xystopeplus rufago, Xylenini tribe,
Hadeninae subfamily), Carolina Beach State Park, New Hanover County, NC |
Leaffooted Bug. This was very big, almost
2 inches long. |
Beach flea. See other
crustaceans. |
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8/4/09
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Golden Silk Spider couple (big one is female) |
Male Golden Silk Spider |
Crablike Spiny Orb Weaver (dorsal view) |
Praying Mantis nymph, was about an inch long |
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Assassin Bug |
Tumblebug beetle (dorsal view), playing dead |
Tumblebug beetle (ventral view) |
Velvet ant (Dasymutilla genus), about the size of a carpenter ant worker |
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Red-shouldered Hawk |
Yellow
Pitcher Plants |
Red-shouldered hawk |
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6/25/08
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| Southern
Pearly Eye |
Palamedes
Swallowtail,
photo by Karl D. Gottschalk |
Six-lined
Racerunner |
Golden
Silk Spider |
Anasaitis canosa, Carolina
Beach, New Hanover County, NC, 6/25/08. ID thanks to Ryan
Kaldari; see associated
BugGuide page. |
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Antlion
(Vella americanum), between 2 and 3 inches long. Great camouflage!
I saw the antlion flying to the tree, its wings sparkling in the sun. |
Hanging-thief (Diogmites
genus). A kind of robber fly. |
Male
Horace's Duskywing |
Mystery wasp |
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1/6/08
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Bald Eagle
(Haliaeetus leucocephalus), seen flying back and forth (once) over
Cypress Pond, Carolina Beach State Park, Hew Hanover County, NC, 1/6/08 |
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Earlier periods
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| Whitish tiger beetle (Cicindela gratiosa), Carolina Beach State Park, New Hanover County,
NC, 6/23/06. Although these beetles were numerous that day in the heart of CBSP,
I'd never seen them there (or anywhere else) before.
They have been sighted in just a few counties in southern North
Carolina. ID thanks to Patrick Coin of Durham, NC. |
Southern Bee Killer
(Mallophora orcina,
subfamily Asilinae),
Carolina Beach State Park, New Hanover County, NC, 10/12/06. At
first it looked like a big bumblebee: what a surprise to see those fly
eyes! |
Carolina Saddlebags
(Tramea carolina),
Carolina Beach State Park, NC, 10/13/06 |
Adult female
Little Blue Dragonlet,
seen
at Carolina Beach State Park on 10/19/05. The park was flooded,
apparently by Hurricane Ophelia in September, which may have brought the
many dragonflies I saw there. |
Wharf Crab (Sesarma cinereum),
Carolina Beach State Park, New Hanover County, NC, 12/12/05.
Thanks to Garrett Herth for ID. |
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Sleepy Orange,
Carolina Beach SP, New Hanover County, NC,
9/27/03. Stage II. |
Sleepy Orange,
Carolina Beach SP, New Hanover County, NC,
11/13/03. Stage IV. |
American Snout, Carolina Beach State Park, New Hanover
County, NC 11/13/03. This Snout relied mainly on camouflage for
defense,
resting its "snout" and antennae on this twig. This was an unusual
discovery, not simply because Snouts are uncommon here in NC, but
because butterflies are rarely found in this park (as are fauna in
general). |
Red-banded Hairstreak,
Carolina Beach State
Park, New Hanover County, NC, 4/28/05. This butterfly landed next
to a pine needle and twisted its wing temporarily against it, but
quickly took off anyway. |
Cedar Waxwings,
Carolina Beach State Park, New
Hanover County, NC, 12/20/06. These were just a few of maybe 100. |
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