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July 2026

Moses Cone Memorial Park, Watauga County, NC 7/31/26 Cabbage White Another Cabbage White, in flight Southern Harebell More Southern Harebells Other Southern Harebells Tall Bellflower Whorled Tickseed (Coreopsis verticillata) Southern Harebells Sweat bee (Lasioglossum genus) Southern Harebells St. John's wort Cocoon The park, at the top The lake Fritillary Southern Harebells Monarch on Common Milkweed Appalachian Tiger Swallowtail on Common Milkweed Same Appalachian Tiger Swallowtail on Common Milkweed Karl, with the Moses Cone mansion in the background Boone, Watauga County, NC 7/31/26 Cabbage White Sachem Pipevine Swallowtail Pipevine Swallowtail Highbush Cranberry Spotted Jewelweed Fringed Willowherb Gray Hairstreak Spotted Jewelweed Mystery fruit, which looked like a half-size roma tomato Climbing Nightshade Boone, Watauga County, NC 7/30/26 Steeplebush Scene from a park Sharp-winged Monkeyflowers (Mimulus alatus) Least Skipper White-form Orange Sulphur Steeplebushes Song Sparrow with beetle prey Same Song Sparrow Common Mullein Same Common Mullein Virgin's Bower Morning glory Common Soapwort Biennial Gaura Dame's Rocket Appalachian Tiger Swallowtail Same Appalachian Tiger Swallowtail Black form Appalachian Tiger Swallowtail Fringed willowherb (Epilobium ciliatum) Mystery fruit on ground (might be a Roma tomato) Crane fly Oxeye Daisy Queen Anne's Lace Maybe English Plantain or grass Green Bottle Fly Dew-laden Crown Vetch Rhododendron Leafhopper (Graphocephala fennahi) Thread-waisted wasp Burdock Thistle Willow Flycatcher Boone, Watauga County, NC 7/29/26 Gray Hairstreak on Black-eyed Susan Silver-spotted skipper on butterfly bush Mutant Black-eyed Susan Leafcutter bee (Megachile genus) Hoverfly attacked by crab spider with two visible legs Durham, NC 7/26/26 Sharp-winged Monkeyflower (Mimulus alatus) Sharp-winged Monkeyflower (Mimulus alatus) Sharp-winged Monkeyflower (Mimulus alatus), full plant Sharp-winged Monkeyflower (Mimulus alatus), full plant Trumpet Creeper buds Fungus Used shotgun shell hull Fork-tailed Katydid nymph Leaf-footed bug nymph Virginia Dayflower Pea flower (maybe Panicled Tick-trefoil, Desmodium paniculatum) Sweat bee (Augochloropsis metallica) Different sweat bee (Augochloropsis metallica) Durham, NC 7/24/26 Weevil Clay-colored Leaf Beetle (Anomoea laticlava) Spotted Lattice Beetle (Bassareus clathratus) Spotted Lattice Beetle (Bassareus clathratus) Green Lynx Spider with fly prey Leaf-footed bug nymph Ambush bug Pearl Crescent Sleeping American Crow Japanese Maple samara Scarlet Rosemallow (Hibiscus coccineus) Scarlet Rosemallow (Hibiscus coccineus) Scarlet Rosemallows (Hibiscus coccineus) Scarlet Rosemallows (Hibiscus coccineus) Fiery Skipper on smartweed American Black Elderberry, all ripe fruits Japanese Maple Horseweed Male Rambur's Forktail Smartweed American Black Elderberry, fruits at different stages Virginia Buttonweed flower Lacewing egg on goldenrod St. John's Wort flower St. John's Wort flowers Acanaloniid planthopper on Spotted Jewelweed Durham, NC 7/20/26 Goldenrod Crab Spider (Misumena vatia) Swamp Milkweed Beetle St. Andrew's Cross Stink bug exuvia (ventral view) Stink bug exuvia (dorsal view) Jumping spider (Phidippus putnami) Jumping spider (Phidippus putnami) Jumping spider (Phidippus putnami) Jumping spider (Phidippus putnami) Sweat bee (Augochloropsis metallica) Shiny Flea Beetle (Asphaera lustrans) Dark Fishing Spider with fly prey Click beetle Pearl Crescent Leafhopper (Jikradia olitoria) Aphids "Chinese" Lespedeza Joe Pye Weed Aphids Dusky-winged Hover Fly (Ocyptamus fuscipennis) Same Dusky-winged Hover Fly (Ocyptamus fuscipennis) Grasshopper nymph Fiery Skipper on Purpletop Vervain Horace's Duskywing on Purpletop Vervain Same Horace's Duskywing on Purpletop Vervain   Paper wasp Another Horace's Duskywing Another Horace's Duskywing Juvie Five-lined Skink   Durham, NC 7/14/26     Fourteen-spotted Beetle (Cryptocephalus guttulatus) Click beetle Female damselfly     Leafhopper (Jikradia olitoria) Llarge Milkweed Bug Two-lined Froghopper Leafhopper (Texananus genus) Common St. John's Wort Horace's Duskywings mating       Horace's Duskywing Horace's Duskywing       Durham, NC 7/10/26 Rose of Sharon Pileated Woodpecker Same Pileated Woodpecker Woolgrass Dodder     Joe Pye Weed Swamp Rose Mallow Crabgrass     Durham, NC 7/9/26         American Robin's eggshell         Durham, NC 7/7/26 Feather-legged fly Another feather-legged fly Same feather-legged fly Large Milkweed Bug Raindrops on Japanese Spindle Tree   Thread-waisted wasp Mating feather-legged flies Same mating feather-legged flies Tiny orb weaver   Durham, NC 7/6/26   Purple-top Vervain Carolina Horsenettle Same Carolina Horsenettle

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