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Durham, NC 7/31/24
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| Red Admiral |
Same Red Admiral |
Same Red Admiral |
Question Mark |
Question Mark |
Durham, NC 7/30/24
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| Horseweed seedhead |
Crab spider (Mecaphesa dubia) |
Jumping spider |
Same jumping spider |
Hemp Dogbane seedpods |
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| Ironweed |
Large Milkweed Bug |
Aphids, one alive |
Common Scaly Cricket (Cycloptilum genus) |
Carolina Wren |
Same Carolina Wren |
Durham, NC 7/28/24
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| Jumping spider (Attidops youngi) |
Mystery darner |
Same darner |
Arabesque Orb Weaver |
Dogday cicada |
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| Larger Elm Leaf Beetle adult |
Larger Elm Leaf Beetle larva |
Click beetle (Drapetes exstriatus) |
Robber Fly (Promachus genus) |
Funnel web spider (Agelenopsis genus) |
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| Stink bug |
Swamp |
Mushrooms |
Other mushrooms |
Yellow Passionflower vine |
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| Smaller Yellow Passionflower vine |
Yellow Passionflower vines |
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Durham, NC 7/27/24
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| Stink bug |
Parallel-banded Leafroller Moth (Choristoneura parallela) |
Burnweed buds |
Broad-shouldered Sharpshooter nymph, probably freshly molted |
Wasp |
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| Crab spider on burnweed |
Common Wingstem |
Yerba de tajo |
Ground beetle (maybe Bembidion genus) |
Weevil (Lixus macer) |
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| Ambush bug |
Rabbit |
Male Great Blue Skimmer |
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Durham, NC 7/23/24
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| Brown Marmorated Stink Bug nymph (5th instar) |
Red-headed Bush Cricket |
Ailanthus Webworm Moth |
Wasp |
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| Devil's Beggarticks |
Female Eastern Amberwing, on grass |
Same Female Amberwing |
Probably a juvie White Ibis |
Same juvie White Ibis |
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| Shining leaf beetle |
Teneral Blue Dasher |
Another teneral Blue Dasher |
Same teneral Blue Dasher |
Male Eastern Pondhawk |
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| Possibly a Slaty Skimmer, but the brown in the wings isn't typical. |
Male Eastern Amberwing |
Another male Eastern Amberwing |
Male American Goldfinch |
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Durham, NC 7/19/24
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| Asiatic Dayflower |
Leafhopper (Graphocephala versuta) |
Creeping Cucumber fruit, faded flower, and leaf |
Yerba de Tajo |
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| Flea beetle (Systena hudsonias) |
Jumping spider (female Pelegrina proterva) |
Carolina Dayflower |
Ambush bug |
Same ambush bug |
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| Ambush bug, transitional? |
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail |
Pearl Crescent |
Spicebush Swallowtail |
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Boone, Watauga County, NC 7/14/24
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| Climbing Nightshade fruits |
Chicory flower |
Golden Alexander |
Small-flowered Forget-me-not (Myosotis laxa) |
Joe-Pye-weed |
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| Climbing Nightshade |
Sparrows |
Morning glory with bee |
Chicory |
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Cabbage White |
Male Northern Cardinal |
Common Milkweed |
Path on Boone Greenway |
Chicory |
Boone, Watauga County, NC 7/13/24
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| Climbing Nightshade |
Song Sparrow |
Firefly beetle |
Silver-spotted Skipper |
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Moses Cone Memorial Park, Watauga County, NC 7/12/24
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| Dark-eyed Junco with caterpillar and fly prey |
Field Mint (Mentha canadensis) |
White Beebalm |
Common Soapwort |
Common Milkweed |
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| Southern Harebell |
Southern Harebell |
Ants and aphids |
Yarrow |
St. John's Wort |
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| Shaggy Soldier |
Hemp Nettle |
Red Clover |
Mystery building, seems to have a cross on it |
Mustard |
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| Chipping Sparrow |
Woodland Coreopsis |
Phlox |
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Boone, Watauga County, NC 7/11/24
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| Plant with many aphids |
Sticky Willy |
Dame's Rocket |
Cabbage White |
Yellow Salsify flower and seedheads |
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| Mushrooms |
Thistle |
Male Red-winged Blackbird |
Steeplebushes (Spiraea tomentosa) |
Common Mullein |
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| Apple trees |
Juvie female Red-winged Blackbird |
Male Red-winged Blackbird |
Blue Vervain (Verbena hastata) |
Another vervain |
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| American Robin |
Same American Robin |
Chipping Sparrow |
Chicory |
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Boone, Watauga County, NC 7/10/24
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| Indian Pipes |
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Black-eyed Susan, with apparent green shoots growing out of it |
Spotted St. John's Wort |
Imported Willow Leaf Beetle (Plagiodera versicolora) |
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| Brown lacewing larva burying its head in pollen |
Squash Vine Borer moth, a wasp mimic |
Squash Vine Borer moth, a wasp mimic |
Sweat bee |
Leafcutter bee (Megachile genus) |
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| Silver-spotted Skipper |
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Durham, NC 7/9/24
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| Purseweb spider |
Seedbox |
Female damselfly |
Male Rambur's Forktail |
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| Stink bug nymph |
Carolina Dayflower |
Devil's Beggarticks |
Yellow Woolly Bear (Spilosoma virginica) |
Ambush bug nymph |
Another ambush bug nymph |
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Dew on a leaf |
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Durham, NC 7/5/24
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| Wild Grapes |
Spotted Jewelweed |
Dew on a grass leaf |
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More dew |
Green Heron |
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| Mystery object, maybe a cocoon |
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Durham, NC 7/4/24
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| Red Admiral |
White-lined Burrowing Bug |
Tachina Fly |
Same Tachina Fly |
Leaf-footed bug |
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| Tachinid fly (Gymnosoma genus) |
Same tachinid fly (Gymnosoma genus) |
Camouflaged Looper (Synchlora aerata), known Wavy-lined Emerald Moth as an adult |
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Durham, NC 7/2/24
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| Newly emerged Asian Multi-colored Lady Beetle and pupa shell |
Same newly emerged Asian Multi-colored Lady Beetle and pupa shell |
Seedbox |
Glassy-winged Sharpshooter nymph |
Ambush bug |
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| Ambush bug |
Leafhopper (Graphocephala versuta) |
Turkey Vulture |
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| Male Eastern Bluebird |
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