Durham, NC 8/28/18
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| Ambush bug | Long view of "well-camouflaged" | Maybe a sweat bee | Planthopper | Stink bug |
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| Goldenrod Spider | Anomalous pink ironweed (Vernonia genus) | Swamp Agrimony (Agrimonia parviflora) |
Peaks of Otter, Bedford County, VA 8/23/18
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| Summer Fishfly (Chauliodes pectinicornis) |
Peaks of Otter, Bedford County, VA 8/22/18
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| Chipmunk | Same chipmunk | Same chipmunk | Eastern Wood-Pewee | Flower fly (Toxomerus genus) |
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| Great Spangled Fritillary | Same Great Spangled Fritillary | Great Spangled Fritillary | Hog Peanut (Amphicarpaea bracteata) | Another Hog Peanut (Amphicarpaea bracteata) flowers |
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| Hog Peanut | Northern Pearly Eye | Same Northern Pearly Eye | Little Glassywing on Oxeye Daisy |
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| Squash bug (Anasa tristis) nymph at Johnson Farm. ID thanks to Yurika Alexander. | Stink bug nymph | Tree fruit, perhaps once covered with orange seeds | Male Violet Dancer (Argia fumipennis violacea) |
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| Wasp with crab spider; the wasp flew away. | White Baneberry (Actaea pachypoda) | Indian Tobacco (Lobelia inflata) | Bee | Same bee |
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| Bees on Common Wingstem | Tiny beetle |
Peaks of Otter, Bedford County, VA 8/21/18
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| Aster | Butter-and-eggs (Linaria vulgaris) | Pearl Crescent | Same Pearl Crescent | American Goldfinch |
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| Monarch | Moth | Red Clover | Spider web | White-tailed Deer looking like a kangaroo |
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| White-tailed Deer | Whitetop Aster | Yarrow |
Peaks of Otter, Bedford County, VA 8/20/18
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| Bouncing Bet (Saponaria officinalis) | Whitemouth Dayflower (Commelina erecta) | Fish (in Abbott Lake) | Fungi | Fungus |
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| Great Blue Heron | Leafhopper, Texananus genus | Monarch | Spreading False Foxglove (Aureolaria patula) | Female Appalachian Tiger Swallowtail |
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| Mystery tree fruit, likely covered with orange seeds originally | Spider web | White Baneberry (Actaea pachypoda) | White-tailed Deer | Whitetop Asters (Sericocarpus asteroides) |
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| Mystery wildflower | Another mystery wildflower | Male Zabulon Skipper |
Peaks of Otter, Bedford County, VA 8/19/18
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| Male Eastern Amberwing | Fish | Another fish | Great Blue Heron with fish prey | Heal-all |
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| Least Skipper | Lobelia | Monarch | Northern Pearly Eye | Male Pipevine Swallowtail |
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| Pipevine Swallowtail on ironweed | Male Red-winged Blackbird | Same male Red-winged Blackbird | Spotted Jewelweed |
Durham, NC 8/17/18
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| Ambush bug | Egg mass | Stink bug |
North Carolina Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC 8/16/18
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| Sleepy Orange visiting a Salt Marsh Mallow | Scolia nobilitata wasp visiting a Green Coneflower | Small Milkweed Bug | Tadpole |
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| Another tadpole | Trailing Wild Bean (Strophostyles helvola) | Wasps mating | Amphibian eggs |
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| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Jack-in-the-Pulpit seedhead |
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| Another Jack-in-the-Pulpit seedhead | A third Jack-in-the-Pulpit seedhead |
Durham, NC 8/14/18
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| Mottled Tortoise Beetle (Deloyala guttata) | Golden Tortoise Beetle (Charidotella sexpunctata) | Tiny spider with egg sac | Common Wingstem | Bush cricket |
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| Maybe older female Citrine Forktail | Fly |
Durham, NC 8/13/18
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| Monarch on goldenrod | Same Monarch | Mushroom | Female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | Virgin's Bower (Clematis virginiana) |
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| Wasp | Weevil | Argiope aurantia with grasshopper prey | Same Argiope aurantia. Small spider on top left was a member of another species. | Male Eastern Tiger Swallowtail on asters |
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| Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis) | Casebearer beetle | Dogday cicada nymph | Same dogday cicada nymph | Goldenrod (Solidago genus) |
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| Grasshopper |
Fort Fisher State Recreation Area, New Hanover County, NC 8/8/18
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| Snowy Egret | Same Snowy Egret | Same Snowy Egret | Female Seaside Dragonlet | Moth |
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| Morning glory (Ipomoea genus, might be a hybrid species) | Longhorn bee on Firewheel | Same longhorn bee | Maybe an Eastern Bluebird |
Carolina Beach State Park, New Hanover County, NC 8/7/18
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| Antlion (Vella fallax) | Aster? Notably missing from the guidebooks. | Male Brackish-water Fiddler Crab | Comet Darner | Eastern Pine Barrens Tiger Beetle |
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| Lichens | Golden Silk Spider pair | Indigo Bunting | Meadow Beauty (Rhexia genus) | Pitcher plants |
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| Pitcher plants | More pitcher plants | Male Eastern Pondhawk, transitioning to adulthood | Southern Bee Killer | Southern Magnolia |
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| Wharf crab | Mystery wildflower | Yellow-eyed Grass (Xyris fimbriata) | Another Yellow-eyed Grass |
Fort Fisher State Recreation Area, New Hanover County, NC 8/6/18
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| Prairie Warbler | Male Sand Fiddler Crab | Same Sand Fiddler Crab | Female Seaside Dragonlet | Another female Seaside Dragonlet |
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| Another female Seaside Dragonlet | Male Seaside Dragonlet | Another male Seaside Dragonlet | Yet another male Seaside Dragonlet | Skipper |
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| Female Boat-tailed Grackle | Mystery bird | Great Egret | Needham's Skimmer? |
Carolina Lake, Carolina Beach, New Hanover County, NC 8/5/18
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| Canada Goose looking askance at me | Same Canada Goose | Female Mallard | Sanderlings (actually on the beach) |
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| Juvie Tricolored Heron | Same Tricolored Heron | Same Tricolored Heron with "catch" |
Durham, NC 8/4/18
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| Aquatic beetle | Aquatic snail | Golden Tortoise Beetle (Charidotella sexpunctata) | Moth (Olethreutes sericorana) | Mottled Tortoise Beetle |
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| Mottled Tortoise Beetle | Plant bug (Neurocolpus genus) | Red-headed Bush Cricket, linking problem cannot be fixed. | Springtail | Wolf spider |