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Jordan Lake, Chatham County, NC 8/30/15
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| Cloudless Sulphur |
Spicebush Swallowtail |
Sleepy Orange |
Female Sachem |
Silver-spotted Skipper |
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| Teneral Blue Dasher |
Female Great Blue Skimmer |
Three male Great Blue
Skimmers |
Eastern Amberwing. Sex hard
to determine because half of each wing was transparent. |
Possibly a Black
Saddlebags, was nearly always flying. |
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| Bee on Common Buttonbush
blossom |
Female Eastern Tailed-Blue
on Chinese Lespedeza |
Dorsal view of Cloudless
Sulphur on Wild Potato Vine |
Female Fiery Skipper |
What happens to old
feathers. This ground was underwater earlier this year. |
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| Monarch |
Transitional male Eastern Pondhawk |
Moth |
Male
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail |
Female
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail |
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| Toad bug |
Toad
bug, showing important details |
Toad bug |
Virginia Hoverfly |
Same
Virginia Hoverfly |
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Waterpods (Hydrolea quadrivalvis) common in the formerly adjoining pond.
ID thanks to Su Kim. |
Wolf spider with egg sac |
Great Egret flying |
More Great Egrets |
View of the mudflats |
Durham, NC 8/30/15
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| Chinese Lespedeza |
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Durham, NC 8/28/15
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| Jumping spider |
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Durham, NC 8/26/15
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| Young Five-lined Skink |
Bowl-and-doily Spider |
Caterpillars (maybe Datana
angusii) |
Bowl-and-doily Spider |
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| Appalachian
Brown |
Tree Stink Bug |
Male Sachem |
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Sandy Creek Park, Durham, NC 8/25/15
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| Appalachian Brown |
Green Heron |
Sleepy Orange |
Wolf spider |
Little Wood Satyr |
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| Carolina Dayflower |
Leafhopper |
Unusually pink ironweed |
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Durham, NC 8/24/15
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| Male Zabulon Skipper |
Triangulate Orb Weaver |
Scaly cricket |
Ragweed Flower Moth (Schinia rivulosa). Genus ID thanks to Aaron Hunt, species ID thanks to Tony Leukering |
Caterpillar |
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Durham, NC 8/22/15
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| Planthopper
(Rhynchomitra microrhina) |
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North Carolina Botanical Garden, Orange County,
NC 8/21/15
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| Sand wasp
(Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus), pausing from trying to dig a hole in
the clay trail. It tried to dig several holes while I watched,
but apparently found the clay too hard. |
Same sand
wasp, standing back from hole |
Same sand wasp, digging |
Trailing Wild Bean
(Strophostyles helvula) |
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| Eastern
Tiger Swallowtail |
Silver-spotted Skipper |
Green Anole |
Clouded Skipper |
Horace's Duskywing |
Silver-spotted Skipper |
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| Goldenseal |
Monkshood |
Water Lily |
Cardinal Flower |
Main garden |
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Boone, Watauga County, NC 8/18/15
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| Fiery Skipper |
Orange Sulphur |
Chicory flowers, one white, of a plant mowed down although some
five years ago this plant was allowed to grow. |
Daniel Boone Gardens, Boone, NC 8/17/15
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| Cabbage White |
Dogbane Beetle |
Great
Spangled Fritillary |
Leafcutter bee |
Wild Onion |
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| Peck's Skipper |
Another
Peck's Skipper |
Yet another
Peck's Skipper |
Wasp on aster |
Brown stink bug |
Tanawha Trail (Milepost 304), NC 8/17/15
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| Stink bug
nymph (actually on the Blue Ridge Parkway nearby) |
Scorpion fly |
Planthopper |
Pink Turtlehead buds |
Pale Jewelweed |
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| Bumblebee
(Bombus vagans or sandersoni) |
Magnolia seedhead |
Crane fly |
Scorpion fly |
Eastern Tiger Swallowtails |
Boone, Watauga County, NC 8/16/15
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| Ailanthus Webworm Moth |
American Groundnut |
Asian Multicolored Ladybug |
Crab
spider on coneflower |
Ebony bugs on goldenrod |
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| Locust Borer Beetle |
Male orb weaver |
Silver-spotted Skipper |
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail and bee on thistle |
Blowfly |
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| Tachinid fly |
Same tachinid fly |
Scarlet bee balm |
Snout moth |
Tachinid fly |
Jordan Lake Game Land, Chatham County, NC
8/15/15
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| An unusually
brown Eastern Tiger Swallowtail and two others on Common
Buttonbush |
Other
Eastern Tiger Swallowtails on the same bush |
Pipevine
Swallowtail sampling the minerals in the clay soil |
A Little
Glassywing skipper on Common Buttonbush |
Little
Glassywing skipper |
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| Morning glories: Wild Potato
Vine (Ipomoea pandurata) |
Horace's Duskywing |
Two
long-legged flies attacking a mystery larva |
Eighteen millipedes! |
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| Red-spotted Purple seeking tree
sap? |
Wolf spider with egg sac |
Osprey carrying fish |
A view of the mudflats looking
east |
A view of the mudflats looking
west |
Weymouth
Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, Southern Pines, Moore County, NC
8/13/15
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| Butterfly Pea |
Spurred Butterfly Pea |
Tiny beetle |
Filmy Dome Spider |
St. Andrew's Cross |
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| Water strider |
Long-leaf Pines |
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Southern Pines, Moore County, NC 8/12/15
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| Fiery
Skipper on Lantana |
Sleepy Orange |
Flowers |
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail |
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Jordan
Lake Dam, Chatham County, NC 8/12/15
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| Female Widow Skimmer |
Teneral male Widow Skimmer |
Female Blue-fronted Dancer
(Argia apicalis) |
Male Blue-fronted Dancer
(Argia apicalis) |
Male Fiery Skipper |
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| Common Buckeye |
Great
Blue Heron, next to spillway |
A
cooling tower of the Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant, seen
from the Jordan Lake Dam Visitor Center |
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Durham,
NC 8/10/15
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| Recent metamorph (Copes' ?)
Gray Treefrog |
Green Treefrog |
Ocola Skipper |
Tiny moth |
Wasp |
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| Planthopper (Rhonchomitra
genus) |
Recent metamorph (Copes' ?)
Gray Treefrog |
Soldier fly (Sargus fasciatus). ID thanks to Norm Woodley. Because of a bug in Dreamweaver, the thumbnail cannot be displayed. |
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Durham, NC 8/9/15
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| Pearl Crescent |
Eastern Bluebird |
American Robin |
Slaty Skimmer |
Female Great Blue Skimmer |
Durham,
NC 8/8/15
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| Eastern Tiger Swallowtail |
Female Great Blue Skimmer |
Recent metamorph(Copes' ?) Gray
Treefrog |
Chinese Mantis |
Same Chinese Mantis |
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| Male Zabulon Skipper |
Female Zabulon Skipper |
Wasp |
Black form
female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail |
Tree Stink Bug nymph |
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| Sleepy Orange |
Least Skipper |
Potter Wasp
(Eumenes fraternus) |
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North Carolina Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC 8/6/15
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| American Lady |
American Lady |
Assassin
bug (Pselliopus cinctus) nymph on Marsh Fleabane with hopper
prey |
Hoary Edge
Skipper |
Swarthy Skipper |
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| Black form
female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail |
Another
black form female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail |
Black form
female and yellow form Eastern tiger Swallowtails, with a tiny
Ailanthus Webworm Moth and a female Sachem |
Silver-spotted Skipper |
One Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
trying to take over a flower from another |
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| Ocola Skipper |
Leafcutter bee |
Pearl Crescent |
The same
Pearl Crescent, on a fresh flower (Common Wild Quinine) |
Silver
Spotted Skipper attacked by a robber fly |
Durham, NC 8/2/15
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Planthopper (Rhynchomitra microrhina) |
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North Carolina Botanical
Garden, Orange County, NC 8/2/15
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Eastern Tiger Swallowtail On Joe Pye Weed |
Another Eastern Tiger Swallowtail with a hind wing piece missing |
Another Eastern Tiger Swallowtail |
Yet
another Eastern Tiger Swallowtail |
Pine Lily
(Lilium catesbaei) |
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| Molting Northern Cardinal |
Same Northern Cardinal |
Same
Northern Cardinal |
Little Glassywing |
Meadow beauty |
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Planthopper (Rhynchomitra microrhina), seen in a dark, secluded
corner of the garden |
Red-headed Bush Cricket |
Silver-spotted Skipper on Heartleaf Pickerelweed |
Spicebush Swallowtail |
Small Bigleaf Magnolia |
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| Pearl
Crescent on Black-eyed Susan |
Pearl
Crescent on another Black-eyed Susan |
Female
Great Blue Skimmer |
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Mason Farm Biological Reserve, Orange County, NC
8/2/15
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| Zabulon Skipper |
Recent
metamorph(Copes' ?) Gray Treefrog |
Red Admiral |
Sleepy Orange |
Cardinal
Flower |
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| Porcelainberries |
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