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Hayesville, Clay County,
NC 5/30/13
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| Thistle field |
Nodding Thistle (Carduus nutans) |
Birdvetch |
Common Water Strider |
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Appalachian Trail
leading to Siler's Bald 5/30/13
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| Anomalous Asian
Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle |
Same beetle as on left,
but with different lighting showing its spots |
Canadian Violet |
Dutchman's Pipe, an
inch-long flower high in a tree. |
The remains of a hatched
American Robin egg in a deserted nest. |
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| Fourleaf Yam (Dioscorea quaternata) |
Wild Geranium (Geranium maculatum) |
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Siler's Bald, Macon
County, NC 5/30/13
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| White-form Orange Sulphur |
Same White-form Orange
Sulphur |
Pipevine Swallowtail |
Highbush Blueberry flowers |
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| Plaque at the very top |
A duskywing |
Mite (Leptus genus) |
Female Eastern Tailed Blue |
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| Dark-eyed Junco with caterpillar prey |
Siler's Bald view,
probably northeast |
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Raven Cliffs Trail, Chattahoochee National
Forest, GA 5/29/13
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| Fungi |
Indian Cucumber Root
flower and bud |
Lady beetle larva |
Very young Indian Pipes |
Yellow Mandarin (Prosartes
lanuginosum) |
Glassmine Gap, Macon County, NC 5/28/13
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| Vasey's Trillium |
White Trillium |
Clinton's Lily |
Bear Corn, formerly known as Squawroot |
Froghopper nymph, found on
my hat |
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| Crescent, maybe a Pearl
Crescent |
Jordan's Salamander, held
by Liz Domingue |
Same Jordan's Salamander |
Horse fly |
Flower longhorn beetle (Encyclops caerulea) |
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| Bee and bug |
Bee on Wild Strawberry
flowers |
Common Goldstar |
Ichneumon wasp |
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| Fresh Indian Cucumber Root
flower |
Katydid |
Vasey's Trillium flower |
Wild Strawberry in bloom |
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Standing Indian
Mountain, Clay County, NC 5/27/13
We hiked from a place about 4300 feet above sea
level to the summit at about 5500 feet. At the summit, new oak
leaves (still red) were coming out.
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| Click beetle (Ctenicera
longicornis). ID thanks to Blaine Mathison. |
Pink Lady's Slipper |
View from summit |
Another view from the summit |
Silver Bells |
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| Blooming Umbrellaleaf |
Vasey's Trillium |
Wood Betony |
Mayapple |
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| USGS marker |
Serviceberry flowers |
Millipede (probably
Sigmoria trimaculata) |
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Near Lake Chatuge, Clay County, NC 5/29/13
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| Tulip Poplar flower on small tree |
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Hinton Center, Clay County, NC 5/27/13
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| Lichen Moth (Lycomorpha
pholus) |
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Mason Farm Biological Reserve, Orange County,
NC 5/24/13
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| Female Common Whitetail |
Little Wood Satyr, dorsal
view |
Little Wood Satyr, ventral
view |
Question Mark |
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| A Question Mark |
Another Question Mark |
Red Admiral |
Sundrops |
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Silvery Checkerspot |
Female Swamp Darner |
Chipmunk |
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Durham, NC 5/24/13
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| Fungus beetle (Eurymycter
fasciatus, Anthribinae subfamily) |
Sulphur Cinquefoil
(Potentilla recta) |
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Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC
5/23/13
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| American Lady |
Appalachian Brown |
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Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC
5/22/13
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| Golden-backed Snipe Fly |
Seven-spotted Ladybug
Beetle on a buttercup flower |
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Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC
5/21/13
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| Jumping spider (male Colonus sylvanus) |
Orchard Spider |
Ant |
Asian Multi-colored
Ladybug Beetle |
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Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 5/18/13
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| Phidippus princeps jumping
spider |
Green Six-spotted Tiger
Beetle |
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Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC
5/17/13
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| Red Clover |
Male comb-footed spider
(Theridion pictipes) |
Same male comb-footed
spider (Theridion pictipes) |
Green Stink Bug |
Long-jawed orb weaver
(Tetragnatha genus) |
Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC
5/16/13
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| Longhorn beetle (Euderces
pini), which looked like an ant at first glance. It was
about 5 mm long. |
Same Longhorn beetle
(Euderces pini) |
Bee (Ceratina genus
according to H. Go) and fly on a Coreopsis
flower. My husband Karl showed me this flower, one of the
very earliest blooming Coreopses. |
Narrowleaf Blue-eyed Grass |
Bristly Mallow |
False Dandelion |
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| Venus' Looking-glass |
Seven-spotted Ladybug
Beetle |
Little Glassywing |
Stink bug (Menecletes
insertus) nymph |
Diamond-backed Froghopper |
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| Eastern Tailed-Blue on
White Clover |
Mock Strawberry |
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Mason Farm Biological Reserve, Orange County, NC 5/15/13
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| Spiketail (Cordulegaster
obliqua) |
Same spiketail |
Large Bee Fly |
Silvery Checkerspot |
Silvery Checkerspot |
Durham, NC 5/15/13
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| Miniature roses |
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Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 5/14/13
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| Golden-backed Snipe Fly |
Leech, with visible open
mouth |
Same leech. John
Dancy-Jones told me he thinks it most likely fell off of a deer
that had been wading in the creek. |
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Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 5/13/13
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| Male Eastern Tiger
Swallowtail |
Upland Chorus Frog |
Turtle Bug (Amaurochrous
cinctipes). Genus ID thanks to
Brandon Woo. Species ID thanks to
Vassily Belov. |
Ground beetle (Chlaenius genus) |
Toxomerus genus flower fly
on False Dandelion |
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| Spotted Cucumber Beetle |
Shield-backed katydid |
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Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 5/10/13
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| Immature Common Starling |
Marsh |
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Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 5/9/13
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| Burrowing bug |
Tiny true bug at north end
of Ocracoke Island |
Least tern? |
Least tern? |
Tern |
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| Great Egret |
Horseshoe crab |
Mallard |
Red-winged Blackbird |
Red-winged Blackbird |
Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 5/8/13
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channel dredging, draws dozens of birds. Here are mostly
Double-crested ormorants and a couple of Brown Pelicans. |
A few houses on the
Pamlico Sound side of the town side of Ocracoke |
A male Mallard |
Eurasian Collared Dove |
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Cedar Island, Hyde County, NC 5/8/13
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| Killdeer |
Least Tern (Sterna antillarum) |
Semi-palmated Plover |
Snowy Egret |
False Garlic |
Durham, NC 5/7/13
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| American Goldfinch |
Mourning Dove |
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Durham, NC 5/6/13
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| Barklouse (dorsal view) |
Same barklouse (ventral
view) |
Scorpionfly (probably
genus Panorpa), on Third Fork Creek Trail |
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Durham, NC 5/4/13
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| Carolina Satyr |
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Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, NC 5/3/13
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| Hollyhocks |
Honeybee |
Male House Sparrow in
downtown |
Pink Wood-Sorrel |
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| American Robin |
Dove's Foot Geranium (Geranium molle) |
Velvet mite, one of about
30 I saw in a spot downtown. |
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Durham, NC 5/2/13
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| Barklouse, about 2 mm long |
Ground beetle larva,
perhaps a Caterpillar Hunter (Calosoma scrutata), seems to be eating something. |
Stink bug (Mormidea
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