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Field and Swamp: Animals and Their Habitats

February 2008

Durham, NC 2/20/08

Probably a katydid nymph, less than 1 mm long. It showed up on a plastic watering can.

Mason Farm Biological Reserve, NC 2/19/08

Northern Cricket Frog

Durham, NC 2/18/08


Northern Cricket Frog, very tiny, on edge of mini-swamp in power line cut	Yellow Ant, with a red parasite egg on its right hind leg

Durham, NC 2/16/08


Wolf Spider	These two little green insects were among about 100 others on water in a drainage ditch, less than 1 mm long.

Durham, NC Feb. 8-10

All of these insects showed up under a pile of leaves I had raked and was removing.


Spirobolid millipede, about 30 mm long	Possibly a newly molted cockroach nymph, about 3 mm long	Mystery arthropod, about 1 mm long	Immature barklouse, maybe a booklouse. Both were 1-2 mm long.	Another immature barklouse

Penny's Bend Nature Preserve, Durham County, NC 2/9/08


Question Mark. Part of the right hind wing is hidden in shadow.	Blowfly	Soldier Fly

Durham, NC 2/9/08

These tiny animals turned up under leaf litter that I raked away. Please let me know if you can provide any ID info!


This 1-mm-long hexopod might be a Springtail. It frequently took very big leaps and resumed walking very fast. NOTE: The pink and purple is a function of the evening (6:04 PM) light this photo was taken in.	This mysterious arthropod was also about 1 mm long, seemed be a tiny spider at first glance but it doesn't seem to have a distinct cephalothorax and the legs seem too transparent.	This worm-like animal didn't seem to have any legs. It was about 8 mm long. It had a tiny black head (at top, left) and was partially transparent.