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Durham, NC 4/30/19
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| Antmimic jumping spider |
Crab spider |
Jumping spider |
Leafhopper |
Leafhopper nymph |
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| Leafhopper nymph |
Mirid bug (Lopidea genus) |
Peppergrass or Virginia Pepperweed |
Warty Spurge |
Same Warty Spurge |
Durham, NC 4/29/19
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| Ashy Clubtail |
Atamasco Lilies (Zethyranthes atamasco), among St. Anthony's Turnip flowers |
Bee |
Anomalous white buttercup |
Same flower |
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| St. Anthony's Turnip |
Another St. Anthony's Turnip |
Carolina Cranesbill |
Daisy Fleabane |
Mating Golden-backed Snipe Flies |
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| Perhaps a faded Atamasco Lily |
Teneral Eastern Pondhawk |
Multiflora Rose |
Another Multiflora Rose |
Warty Spurge |
Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, NC 4/27/19
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| Black Locust flowers |
More Black Locust flowers |
Everlasting Pea? (Old Salem) |
Mating flies |
Forget-Me-Nots (Old Salem) |
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| Fringe Tree branch |
Fringe tree |
New highway construction |
Female House Sparrow |
Lily-of-the-Valley Old Salem) |
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| Mock Strawberry (Duchesnea indica), Old Salem |
Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass (Old Salem) |
Peony (Old Salem) |
Another peony (Old Salem) |
Pink Wood-Sorrel (Old Salem) |
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| Violet Wood-Sorrel (Old Salem) |
Pink Wood-Sorrel (Old Salem) |
Purple Bedstraw (Galium latifolium) |
Rosebush (Old Salem) |
Seven-spotted Ladybug Beetle (Old Salem) |
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| Silver-spotted Skipper |
Violets |
Star-of-Bethlehem (Ornithogalum umbellatum) |
View of the Wells Fargo building from Old Salem |
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Durham, NC 4/26/19
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| Owlet (probably Barred Owl) |
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Durham, NC 4/25/19
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| Mating flower flies (Toxomerus genus) |
Flower fly (Toxomerus genus) |
Owlet (probably a Barred Owl) |
Owlet (probably a Barred Owl) |
Pearl Crescent |
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| Azure Bluets |
Common Cinquefoil |
Common Vetch |
Crimson Clover |
Crowpoison, False Garlic genus |
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| Ground Ivy |
Low Hop Clover |
Red Tip (Photinia x fraseri) |
Vetch (Vicia tetrasperma). It is an introduced species. |
Vetch (Vicia tetrasperma). It is an introduced species. |
Durham, NC 4/24/19
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| Camellia |
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Durham, NC 4/22/19
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| Narrowleaf Blue-eyed Grass |
Blue Toadflax |
Bristly Mallow |
Green Six-spotted Tiger Beetle |
Hawkweed |
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| Monarch |
Pearl Crescent |
Crossvine |
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Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 4/21/19
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| Spotless Ladybug Beetle (Cycloneda sanguinea) |
Same Spotless Ladybug Beetle (Cycloneda sanguinea) |
Vedalia Beetle (Rodolia cardinalis) |
Vedalia Beetle pupa |
Cottony cushion scale (Icerya purchasi), natural prey of Vedalia Beetles. |
Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 4/20/19
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| Polished Ladybug Beetle (Cycloneda munda) |
Mating Vedalia Beetles (Rodolia cardinalis) |
Aphids |
More aphids |
Cottony cushion scale (Icerya purchasi), natural prey of Vedalia Beetles. ID thanks to Ken Wolgemuth. |
Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 4/19/19
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| American Oystercatcher, at the north end of the island |
Same American Oystercatcher |
Anchor Bug (Stiretrus anchorago), in town |
Moth fly (in town) |
Atlantic Ocean |
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| Heron's Landing, seen from the beach |
Sanderlings, far up the beach |
Squirrel treefrog |
Another squirrel treefrog |
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| Willet and Sanderlings, far up the beach |
Willet struggling to keep its balance in the strong winds |
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Ocracoke (Hammock Hills Nature Trail), Hyde County, NC 4/18/19
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| Carolina Anole |
Eastern Blue-eyed Grass |
Flesh fly |
Fowler's Toad |
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| Poison Ivy |
Sawtooth Blackberry |
Tiny wasp |
Another Fowler's Toad |
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Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 4/18/19
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| Kite |
Public beach |
Black Swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes) |
Sanderling |
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| Sandwich Tern |
Willet |
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Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 4/17/19
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| Birdfoot Trefoil |
House |
Eurasian Collared Dove courtship ritual: the dove on the right bowed repeatedly. |
Another scene from the Eurasian Collared Dove courtship ritual |
Mystery grass plant inflorescence |
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| Male House Sparrow |
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Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 4/16/19
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| Brown-headed Cowbird |
Fledgling Brown-headed Cowbird struggling to catch its balance |
Feral cat |
Coral Honeysuckle |
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| Daisy Fleabane |
Eurasian Collared Dove |
Evening Primrose |
Happy Easter yard display |
Female House Sparrow |
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| Marsh during the golden hour |
Mint plants |
Mourning Dove |
Osprey aircraft in helicopter mode |
Same Osprey aircraft |
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| Red Admiral |
Common Starling |
Yellow Thistle (Cirsium horridulum) |
Violet Wood-sorrel |
Wisteria |
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| Wisteria branch |
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Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 4/15/19
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| Brown Pelican |
Daisy Fleabane |
Eastern Blue-eyed Grass |
Firewheel |
Mystery grass |
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| Female House Sparrow |
Fledgling House Sparrow |
Same fledgling House Sparrow |
Same fledgling House Sparrow |
Ring-billed Gulls and a Laughing Gull |
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| Sea Oxeye Daisies |
Violet Wood-Sorrel |
Asters |
Wisteria |
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| Carolina Wren |
Eastern Blue-eyed Grass |
Crowpoison, False Garlic genus |
Grackle |
Mystery grass |
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| Gull |
Mystery iris, thriving in a large marsh |
Shield-backed bug |
White Willow catkins |
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Swan Quarter, Hyde County, NC 4/14/19
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| Double-crested Cormorant |
Mystery daffodil |
Crowpoison (False Garlic genus) |
Pink Wood-Sorrel |
Male Red-winged Blackbird |
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| Savannah Sparrow |
White Blue-eyed Grass |
Durham, NC 4/11/19
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| Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle |
Blue Toadflax |
Brown Thrasher |
Common Vetch |
Crab spider (Synema parvulum) |
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| Jumping spider (Hentzia mitrata) |
Same jumping spider |
Large Bee Fly (Bombylius major) |
Same Large Bee Fly |
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| Large Bee Fly |
Lyre-leaved Sage |
Fading Purple Dead-nettle |
Common Blue Violet and Confederate Violet |
Mystery wildflower |
Durham, NC 4/10/19
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| Buttercup |
Common Blue Violet |
Green Six-spotted Tiger Beetle |
Jumping spider |
Jumping spider |
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| Leafhopper |
Longhorn beetle (Euderces pini) |
Planthopper nymph |
Same planthopper nymph |
Another planthopper nymph |
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| Aphid and lots of pine pollen |
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Durham, NC 4/9/19
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| Aphid |
Another aphid |
Beetle |
Another beetle |
Carolina Wren |
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| Carolina Wren |
Common Cinquefoil |
Beaked Cornsalad (Valerianella radiata) |
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Durham, NC 4/8/19
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| Female Northern Cardinal |
Carolina Wren singing |
Fledgling Carolina Wren |
Same fledgling Carolina Wren |
Carpet Bugle |
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| Cherry flowers |
Common Chickweed |
Meadow Hawkweed (Hieracium caespitosum), Durham, NC, 3/30/17 |
Eastern Black Oak (Quercus velutina) leaves and buds, Durham, NC, 4/8/19 |
White-throated Sparrow |
Durham, NC 4/6/19
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| Beetle |
Common Chickweed |
Damselfly |
Damselfly |
Probably a Juvenal's Duskywing |
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| Green Six-spotted Tiger Beetle |
March fly? |
Mayapples |
Paper wasp at nest in field |
Same wasp with another at nest |
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| Persian Speedwell (Veronica persica) |
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail |
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Durham, NC 4/3/19
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| Buttercup |
Eastern Hop-hornbeam male catkin |
Common Vetch |
Ground Ivy |
Hooked Buttercup |
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| Japanese Mazus |
Katydid nymph |
March fly |
Pennsylvania Bittercress |
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| Rambur's Forktail |
Sugar Maple flowers |
Other Sugar Maple flowers |
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Durham, NC 4/1/19
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| Mystery tree flowers |
Wolf spider |
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