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Durham, NC 6/30/21
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| Basilica Spider |
Cixiid planthopper |
Crab spider |
Katydid nymph (Scudderia genus) |
Tachina fly |
Jordan Lake, Chatham County, NC 6/30/21
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| Barn Swallow |
Cliff Swallow |
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Durham, NC 6/29/21
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| Billbug at Black-eyed Susan |
Cixiid planthopper |
Part of a Common Milkweed |
Fly |
Camouflaged Looper (Synchlora aerata) on Black-eyed Susan |
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| Lace bug nymph |
Leaf with lace bug nymphs |
Same kind of leaves |
Leafhopper (Exitianus exitiosis) |
Milkweed Bug nymph |
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| Picture-winged fly (Dephinia picta) |
St. John's Wort |
Water Hemlock |
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Sandy Creek Park, Durham, NC 6/28/21
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| Alligator Weed (Alternanthera philoxeroide). This is an officially invasive plant. |
Asiatic Dayflower (Commelina communis) |
Duckweed |
Great Blue Heron |
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| Lizard's Tails and Duckweed |
Lizard's Tail (Saururus cernuus) |
Lobed Tickseed (Coreopsis auriculata) |
Male Mallard |
Powdery Alligator Flag (Thalia dealbata) |
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| Powdery Alligator Flag |
Red Clover |
Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus) |
Silktree (Albizia julibrissin) |
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| Water Hemlock |
Water Primroses (Ludwigia peploides) |
Web |
American Germander (Teucrium canadense) |
Mystery wildflower, probably in the Lamiaceae family |
Durham, NC 6/27/21
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| Lace bug nymph |
Female Common Whitetail |
Ebony Jewelwing |
Katydid nymph |
Marsh |
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| Mourning Doves |
Pickerelweed |
Rabbit |
Tachina Fly |
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Durham, NC 6/25/21
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| Acanaloniid planthopper nymph |
Bee and wasp |
Bug nymph |
Carolina Petunia |
Caterpillar |
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| Caterpillar |
Chloropid fly |
Click beetle |
Clouded Plant Bug |
Female Eastern Tailed-blue |
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| Elongate springtails on a Black-eyed Susan |
False Dandelion (Pyrrhopappus carolinianus) seedhead |
Flower fly (Eristalis dimidiatus) on Japanese spindle tree flowers |
Funnel web spider |
Green lacewing larva pinching off bits from a blackberry branch |
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| Green lacewing larva still pinching off bits |
The green lacewing larva now places those bits in its camouflage covering |
Flower fly (Ocyptamus genus) |
Katydid (Scudderia genus) nymph |
Another katydid (Scudderia genus) nymph |
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| Lace bug nymph |
Pennsylvania Leatherwing Beetles, mating |
Longhorn beetle |
Mantis (nymph?) |
Same mantis |
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| Mock Strawberry |
Pearl Crescent |
Tachina Fly (Trichopoda pennipes) |
Same Tachina Fly (Trichopoda pennipes) |
Tachinid fly (Archytas apicifer) |
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| Same tachinid fly (Archytas apicifer) |
Two-lined Froghoppoer |
Web on leaves |
Wild Garlic (Allium vineale) |
Yellow Nutsedge Moth |
Durham, NC 6/24/21
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| Butterfly Bush flowers, blooming for the last 4 days, in our yard |
Buttonbush |
Hearts-a-bustin' seedhead |
Hemp Dogbane |
European Honeybee on Japanese Spindle Tree |
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| Japanese Honeysuckle |
Japanese Spindle Tree |
Leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea) |
Spined Soldier Bug |
Lizard's Tail (Saururus cernuus) |
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Jordan Lake, NC 6/24/21
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| Cliff Swallow |
Double-crested Cormorant |
Great Blue Heron |
Another Great Blue Heron |
Jordan Lake |
Durham, NC 6/23/21
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| Acanaloniid planthopper nymph |
Appalachian Brown |
Basilica Spider |
Argiope aurantia |
Seed bug? |
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| Dancer? |
False Dandelion |
Flower fly |
Teneral male Great Blue Skimmer |
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| Green Treefrog |
Katydid nymph |
Polished Ladybug Beetle (Cycloneda munda) |
Red-banded Hairstreak, perhaps freshly emerged |
Same Red-banded Hairstreak, perhaps freshly emerged |
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| Spotted Jewelweed |
Swamp Milkweed Beetle, playing dead |
Swamp Milkweed Beetle larva, very tiny |
Tachinid fly |
Wild Garlic |
Durham, NC 6/21/21
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| Beetle on American Black Elderberry flower |
Male Citrine Forktail |
Largid bug |
Pennsylvania Smartweed |
Female Eastern Pondhawk |
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| Male Slaty Skimmer |
Stink bug nymph, early instar |
Same nymph |
Female Widow Skimmer |
Herbwilliam (Ptilimnium capillaceum ) |
Durham, NC 6/18/21
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| Blue Dasher |
Anchor Stink Bug (Stiretrus anchorago). ID thanks to Ken Wolgemuth. |
Same Anchor Stink Bug (Stiretrus anchorago) |
Tiny caterpillar (Schizura ipomaeae). ID thanks to
John and Jane Balaban. |
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| Cixiid planthopper |
Cocklebur Weevil |
Firely beetle |
Fly |
Green lacewing larva |
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| Leafhopper (Graphocephala versuta) |
Red-headed Bush Cricket nymph |
Rice Stink Bug |
Sourwood (Oxydendrum arboreum) |
Water Hemlock (Cicuta maculata) |
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| Spider with prey |
Spider spinning web |
Same spider |
Spotted Ladybug Beetle |
Swamp Milkweed Beetle larva |
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| Much smaller Swamp Milkweed Beetle larva |
Web |
Same web |
Eastern Phoebe |
Same Phoebe |
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| Wool-grass (Scirpus cyperinus) |
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Durham, NC 6/17/21
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| Aphids |
More aphids |
Probably a leafcutter bee |
Billbug |
Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta) |
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| Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta) |
Sawtooth Blackberry (Rubus argutus) |
Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriatica) seedpod |
Common Plantain (Plantago major) |
Five-lined Skink |
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| Fly |
Gamagrass |
Green lacewing larva |
Green lacewing larva |
Green lacewing larva |
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| Green lacewing larva |
Heal-all (Prunella vulgaris) |
Jumping spider |
Katydid nymph |
Mystery larva |
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| Leafcutter bee |
Same leafcutter bee |
Same leafcutter bee |
Leafhopper nymph |
Lizard's Tails (Saururus cernuus) |
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| Orchard Spider |
Pearl Crescent |
Cixiid planthopper |
Planthopper nymph |
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| Stiff Marsh Bedstraw (Galium tinctorium) |
Early-instar Tarnished Plant Bug |
Same Early-instar Tarnished Plant Bug |
Velvet Mite |
Velvet with mystery larva |
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| Virginia Buttonweed (Diodia virginiana) |
White Avens (Geum canadense) |
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Durham, NC 6/13/21
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| Zebra Swallowtail |
Ebony bug and fly on Queen Anne's Lace |
Ebony bug and fly on Queen Anne's Lace |
Ebony bugs and a bee on Queen Anne's lace |
Ebony bugs and a bee on Queen Anne's lace |
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| Flat-faced Longhorned Beetle |
Heal-all |
Leafhopper (Scaphoideus genus) |
Maybe Velvet Mite |
Flatid planthopper nymph |
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| Spined Assassin Bug nymph |
Stiff Marsh Bedstraw and flower fly |
Tarnished Plant Bug |
Dusky Ladybug Beetle |
Tarnished Plant Bug nymph, anomalous color |
Another Tarnished Plant Bug nymph, anomalous color |
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| Tumbling Flower Beetle |
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Durham, NC 6/12/21
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| Case-bearing/Cryptocephalid beetle larva |
Buckeye nuts |
Orange Daylily (Hemerocallis fulva) |
Spotted Cucumber Beetle |
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| Cryptocephalid beetle larva, showing where it gets its "tower" material |
Late-instar Tarnished Plant Bug nymph |
Female Widow Skimmer |
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Durham, NC 6/11/21
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| Broad-headed Sharpshooter |
Common Milkweed |
Carolina Horsenettle |
Red-headed Bush Cricket nymph |
Same Red-headed Bush Cricket nymph |
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| Slug? |
Swamp Milkweed Beetle larva |
Swamp Rose (Rosa palustris) |
Tarnished Plant Bug |
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| Small tree growing on a post |
White Avens (Geum canadense) |
Tarnished Plant Bug |
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Durham, NC 6/9/21
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| Climbing Dogbane (Thyrsanthella difformis) |
Climbing Dogbane (Thyrsanthella difformis) |
Clouded Plant Bug on Sawtooth Blackberry |
Common Yellow Wood-sorrel (Oxalis stricta) |
Fly |
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| Frank's Sedge (Carex atherodes) |
Golden Tickseed (Coreopsis tinctoria) |
Green Lacewing larva |
Hearts-a-bustin' (Euonymus americanus) developing fruit, early |
Hearts-a-bustin' (Euonymus americanus) developing fruit, farther along |
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| Hearts-a-bustin' (Euonymus americanus) developing fruit, yet farther along |
Hearts-a-bustin' (Euonymus americanus) developing fruit, almost complete |
Leafhopper |
Planthopper nymph |
Southern Blue Flag Iris (Iris virginica) fruit |
Durham, NC 6/8/21
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| Jumping spider |
Freshly molted planthopper nymph |
Queen Anne's Lace |
Aphid |
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Durham, NC 6/6/21
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| Brown Thrasher |
Same Brown Thrasher |
Same Brown Thrasher |
Female Northern Cardinal |
Male Eastern Bluebird |
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| Lizard's Tails |
Paper wasp |
Song Sparrow |
American Black Elderberry (Sambucus nigra) |
Climbing Dogbane (Thyrsanthella difformis) |
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| Clouded Skipper? |
Devil's Beggarticks (Bidens frondosa) |
Golden Tickseed (Coreopsis tinctoria) |
Green lacewing |
Jumping spider, very tiny |
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| Hooked Buttercup |
Lizard's Tail |
American Red Raspberry (Rubus strigosus) |
Spider exuvia |
Stink bug |
Durham, NC 6/5/21
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| Juvie female Eastern Bluebird |
Same juvie female Eastern Bluebird |
Helmet Flower (Scutellaria integrifolia) |
Southern Magnolia |
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Durham, NC 6/4/21
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| Leafhopper (Jikradia olitoria) nymph |
Same Leafhopper (Jikradia olitoria) nymph |
Mesh web weaver (Emblyna genus) |
Mesh web weaver (Emblyna genus) with long-legged fly prey |
Issid planthopper (Thionia bullata) nymph |
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| Issid planthopper (Thionia bullata) nymph |
Polished Ladybug Beetle (Cycloneda munda) |
Silver-spotted Skipper |
Soldier fly |
Spotted Ladybug Beetle |
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| Mystery wildflower, with fly |
Tarnished Plant Bug |
Tarnished Plant Bug nymph, early instar |
Tumbling flower beetle |
Same tumbling flower beetle |
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| Same umbling flower beetle |
White Avens (Geum canadense) seedhead |
Wild Garlic |
Woolly Aphid |
Female Zabulon Skipper |
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| Chipping Sparrows bathing |
Common Milkweed |
Dancer pair |
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| Lizard's Tail |
Female or juvie Eastern Pondhawk |
Red-shouldered Hawk |
Male Widow Skimmer |
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| Leafhopper (Scaphoideus genus) nymph |
Wasp (Scolia nobilitata) |
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Durham, NC 6/2/21
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| Field Madder (Sherardia arvensis) |
Golden Tickseed (Coreopsis tinctoria) |
Golden Tickseed (Coreopsis tinctoria) |
Golden Tickseed (Coreopsis tinctoria), with flower flies |
Brown Thrasher |
Durham, NC 6/1/21
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| Male Northern Cardinal |
Chipping Sparrow |
Crab spider |
Dwarf Dandelion seedhead |
Female Eastern Bluebird |
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| Flatid planthopper nymph |
Mating Flower flies |
Hearts-a-bustin' |
Japanese Mazus |
Mulberry fruit |
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| Red-necked Cane Borer |
Rose Chafer Beetle |
Tumbling flower beetle |
Viburnum |
Dog Fennel |
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| Peppergrass (Lepidium virginicum) |
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