Critter Blog: April 2006
To see recent bird photos, see Latest Photos. See also April 2006 photos, May 2006 photos, June 2006 photos, July 2006 photos, and August 2006 photos.
Eno River State Park, Old Cole Mill Road access, 4/28/06.
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| Two views of a fruit fly. | |
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| Young mantid (less than an inch long) | Sphecid wasp dragging a spider | Male and female aphids | Mating Water Striders | Ashy Clubtail | Mourning Cloak Caterpillar |
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| Juvenal's Duskywing, I think! | Variegated Fritillary | Carolina Satyr | Common Buckeye | Common Whitetail |
Durham, NC, 4/28/06
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| Scorpionfly | Tipulid Crane Fly | Mating Flower Files | Elongate Long-jawed Orb Weaver | This fly walked effortlessly across the water, to and from land. |
Durham, NC, 4/25/06
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| Female Fragile Forktails: The leftmost forktail bumped the middle one off the leaf, and they both left. | American Lady, Durham | Gray Catbird | Large Flat-headed Wood-boring Beetle (Buprestidae family) | Stink Bug (Menecletes insertus)? nymph (probably not 5th instar) |
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| Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, Durham 4/25/06. This butterfly had trouble escaping from our deck and came up to the window. Note the mostly missing hind wing. | Large Bee Fly | Male Sachem |
Birds Mammals Frogs & Toads Lizards Snakes Turtles Fish Alligators
Butterflies Moths Beetles Dragonflies Damselflies Crustaceans Mollusks
True Bugs True Flies Spiders Ticks & Mites
Cicadas & Hoppers Bees, Wasps & Ants Grasshoppers, Katydids & Crickets Mantids
Megaloptera, Neuroptera,
Mecoptera, Thysanoptera
© 2006 Dorothy E. Pugh