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Johnston Mill Nature Preserve,
Orange County, NC
Johnston Mill Nature Preserve is a Triangle Land
Conservancy land composed of land around New Hope Creek. It is
relatively near the Korstian Division of Duke Forest, which shows similar
wildlife patterns.
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Creek, 11/12/08 |
Puttyroot (Aplectrum hyemale), an orchid, 2/21/09.
The rather large leaf appears in fall and winter, even as far north as
Wisconsin, according to the
University of Wisconsin at Madison Botany Department.
ID thanks to Will Cook. |
Toothwort
leaf, 2/21/09 |
Fern frond, 3/31/07 |
Sugar Hackberry
(close-up of bark) |
5/15/10
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| Northern Pearly Eye
fresh from cocoon |
Golden-backed
Snipe Fly |
Male Spicebush
Swallowtail |
Ashy Clubtail |
Hackberry Emperor |
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| Bumble Flower
Beetle (Euphoria inda) |
Millipede (Sigmoria
aberrans) |
Lichen Moth
(Lycomorpha pholus) |
Flower fly (Blera
genus) |
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4/18/10
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| Ashy Clubtail |
Common Goldstar
(Hypoxis hirsutis). Not really so common: this remote spot in
Johnston Mill NP is the only place I've seen them. |
Seven-spotted
ladybug beetle |
Dung beetle, note
clay on margins |
Bashful Trillium |
Yellow Buckeye
flowers |
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| Tachinid fly |
Large Beefly (Bombilius major) |
Female Eastern Fence Lizard |
Jack-in-the-pulpit |
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| Heartleaf Foamflower |
Eastern Bluestar |
Ground Ivy |
Ichneumon wasp |
Common Vetch |
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| Rue Anemone |
Male Eastern Tailed Blue |
Flower fly (Toxomerus genus) |
Orchard Spider |
Jack-in-the-pulpits: five spathes |
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3/20/10
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| Spicebush flowers |
Miner bee, digging
a hole in the ground for its nest. |
Toothwort |
Bloodroot flower |
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| Trout Lilies, a
few of hundreds currently blooming |
Trout Lily flower |
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12/27/09
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| All Crane Fly Orchid leaves
except the leaf in the middle in the last frame |
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7/3/09
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Common Wood Nymph |
Mydas Fly, about an inch long |
Spined
Orb Weaver |
Adult
Spined Assassin Bug |
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Passion Vine with opening flower. One of a few remaining after a
large field was mowed. |
Spider, Mangora genus |
Katydid nymph |
Mating flower longhorn beetles |
It's hard to tell what kind of planthopper nymph this was, but certainly
is fancy! |
6/23/09
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Common Stonefly (perhaps Agnetina flavescens, Perlidae family).
(One antennae was truncated.) Stoneflies need very clean water to
survive, which speaks well for this stretch of New Hope Creek! |
Tumbling flower beetle (Mordellistena genus), Johnston Mill Nature
Preserve, Orange County, NC, 6/24/09 |
Flower longhorn beetle |
Clay-colored Leaf Beetle |
Spider, maybe Dolomedes genus |
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Passion Flowers (Passiflora incarnata), in the process of unfolding |
Fruit
fly (Tephritidae family) |
Damsel
bug (Lasiomerus annulatus, Nabidae family) |
Queen
Anne's Lace flowers, up close, with billbug. The pink one is immature. |
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Tall Thimbleweed (Anemone virginiana) flower |
Tall Thimbleweed leaf |
Carolina Wild Petunia |
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5/30/09
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Indian Pipes |
Shield-backed katydid nymph |
Question Mark |
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3/31/09
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Flower flies (Toxomerus genus), which alternately flew and landed.
The bottom two are apparently mating in this photo. |
Female Falcate Orangetip |
Green Six-spotted Tiger Beetle |
Large Bee Fly |
Juvenal's Duskywing. Photo by Karl D. Gottschalk |
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2/7/09
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Eastern Chipmunk (Tamias striatus). This
was the first time I saw a chipmunk in NC outside Macon County, in the
mountainous far southwestern part of the state. |
American Bird Grasshopper |
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12/27/08
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Eastern Subterranean Termite worker |
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11/7/08
11/5/08
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| Crab spider,
about 2 mm long |
Snail,
mostly outside shell. See other mollusks. |
Solitary
bee |
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Leopard Slug |
Male ichneumonid wasp |
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4/10/08
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| This Ashy Clubtail,
which has a deformed hind wing, closed its wings like a
butterfly (on right). |
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3/14/08
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| Worker termite |
Soldier termite |
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| Plasterer Bees (Colletes thoracicus), Johnston Mill Nature
Preserve, Orange County, NC, 3/14/08. |
11/27/07
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| Spirobolid
Millipede |
Bess Beetle |
Possibly a fishing spider |
11/3/07
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| Crane fly
(subfamily Tipulinae) |
Centipede |
Beetle grub
(probably a scarab beetle) |
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9/27/07
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| Scorpion fly |
Female Fiery Skipper,
unusually dark, though more wing pattern variation occurs in
the fall. |
Three views of a female Marbled Orb
Weaver. Note that in the third picture the
spider is
peeking around its leg to see the photographer. |
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8/31/07
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| Asiatic Oak Weevils in courtship mode,
Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, 8/31/07. See more
beetles. |
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| Woolly Alder Aphids (Prociphilus
tessellatus) gathered in huge
numbers on a tree branch at Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, Orange
County, NC on 8/31/07. When disturbed, they waved their abdomens,
with this white material stuck to them, up and down. |
Female Zabulon Skipper
at Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, Orange County, NC on 8/31/07 |
Black-form female Eastern
Tiger Swallowtail, Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, Orange
County, NC on 8/31/07. See the
Butterfly Index. |
Tussock moth caterpillar, Johnston
Mill Nature Preserve, Orange County, NC on 8/31/07 |
Jumping spider, Johnston Mill
Nature Preserve, Orange County, NC on 8/31/07 |
Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, Orange County,
NC 6/16/07
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| Shining leaf chafer, Johnston Mill Nature Preserve,
Orange County, NC, 6/16/07 |
Firefly beetle (possibly Lucidota atra), Johnston Mill
Nature Preserve, Orange County, NC, 6/16/07 |
Click beetle (Dalopius genus), Johnston Mill Nature
Preserve, Orange County, NC, 6/16/07 |
Green Bottle Fly,
Johnston Mill Nature Preserve,
Orange County, NC, 6/16/07 |
Lauxaniid fly, Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, Orange
County, NC, 6/16/07 |
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| Velvet mite, Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, Orange
County, NC, 6/16/07 |
Ichneumonid wasp, Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, Orange
County, NC, 6/16/07 |
Mystery spider, Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, Orange
County, NC, 6/16/07 |
5/31/07
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Comb-footed spider (Theridion pictipes), Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, Orange County, NC,
5/31/07. ID thanks to
John and Jane Balaban. |
Northern Pearly Eye,
Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, Orange County, NC, 5/31/07. See
other nymphs and satyrs or go to the
Butterfly Index. |
Even more Leaffooted Bug
nymphs! Johnston Mill Nature
Preserve, Orange County, NC, 5/31/07. See more
True Bugs. |
Tumbling Flower Beetle,
Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, Orange County, NC, 5/31/07 |
Xylophagid Fly,
Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, Orange County, NC, 5/31/07 |
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| Ebony Jewelwing,
Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, Orange County, NC, 5/31/07 |
5/11/07
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| Great Spangled Fritillary,
Johnston Mill Nature
Preserve, Orange County, NC, 5/11/07 |
Ashy Clubtail,
Johnston Mill Nature Preserve,
Orange County, NC, 5/11/07 |
Possibly a
Deer Fly, Johnston Mill Nature
Preserve, Orange County, NC, 5/11/07 |
Rove Beetle,
Johnston Mill Nature Preserve,
Orange County, NC, 5/11/07 |
Leaf beetle
(Paria quadrinotata, Eumolpinae subfamily), Johnston
Mill Nature Preserve, Orange County, NC, 5/11/07. |
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| Syrphid Fly (Temnostoma balyras), Johnston Mill Nature Preserve,
Orange County, NC, 5/11/07 |
12/24/06
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| Pileated Woodpecker,
Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, Orange
County, NC, 12/24/06 |
11/10/06
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| Jumping spider, Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, Orange
County, NC, 11/10/06 |
Stink bug (Menecletes insertus), Johnston Mill Nature
Preserve, Orange County, NC, 11/10/06 |
9/30/06
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| Black-tailed Red Sheetweaver,
Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, Orange County, NC, 9/30/06. This
picture was taken on a cool morning when the dew was still on this
spider's web. |
Carolina
Mantis,
Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, Orange County, NC, 9/30/06 |
9/9/06
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| Spined Orb Weaver (Micrathena gracilis), Johnston
Mill Nature Preserve, Orange County, NC, 9/9/06 |
Mangora genus orb weaver, Johnston Mill Nature Preserve,
Orange County, NC, 9/9/06 |
Neoscona genus spider, Johnston Mill Nature Preserve,
Orange County, NC, 9/9/06 |
Margined Leatherwing Beetle
and Flower
Longhorn Beetle, Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, Orange County, NC,
9/9/06. |
Mating
thread-waisted wasps (Eremnophila aureonotata),
Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, Orange County, NC, 9/9/06. They're
a common species, but have no common name. Very strange! |
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| Maybe a kind of lynx spider, Johnston Mill Nature
Preserve, Orange County, NC, 9/9/06 |
8/18/06
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| Arrow-shaped Micrathena
(Micrathena sagittata),
Johnston Mill, Orange County, NC, 8/18/06 |
Cricket, Johnston Mill, Orange County, NC, 8/18/06 |
Spider (Mangora genus?), Johnston Mill, Orange County, NC, 8/18/06 |
Filmy Dome Spider, Johnston Mill, Orange County, NC, 8/18/06 |
7/15/06
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| Horse Fly
(Tabanus genus),
Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, Orange County, NC, 7/15/06. This
fly was missing most of its left wing and was buzzing around aimlessly
on the ground at the time. |
Eastern Box Turtle
(Terrapene
carolina), Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, Orange County, NC, 7/15/06 |
This large wolf spider was carrying a bunch of
spiderlings on her abdomen at Johnston Mill, Orange County, NC, 7/15/06. |
Flower Longhorn Beetle (Typocerus velutinus, subfamily
Lepturinae), Johnston Mill Nature Preserve,
Orange County, NC, 7/15/06 |
Flower Longhorn Beetle (Typocerus velutinus, subfamily
Lepturinae), Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, Orange County, NC, 7/15/06 |
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| Tulip Tree Beauty,
Johnston Mill Nature
Preserve, Orange County, NC, 7/15/06. Camouflage was not so
perfect here. |
Leafhopper exuviae. Johnston
Mill Nature Preserve, 7/15/06 |
American House Spider (Achaearanea tepidariorum)
attacking a Marbled Orb Weaver, Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, 7/15/06 |
7/1/06
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| Crane Fly, Johnston Mill Nature
Preserve, Orange County, NC |
Virginia Hover Fly
(Milesia
virginiensis), Johnston Mill, Orange County, NC, 7/1/06.
Note the flat abdomen, a characteristic peculiar to syrphid flies. |
Brachonid wasp
(Atanycolus genus), Johnston Mill, Orange County, NC,
7/1/06 |
Funnel web spider, Johnston Mill, Orange County, NC, 7/1/06 |
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| Orchard
spider, Johnston Mill, Orange County, NC,
7/1/06 |
Lightning bug beetle, Johnston Mill, Orange
County, NC, 7/1/06 |
Stilt-legged fly,
Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, Orange County, NC, 7/1/06 |
Ladybug beetle larva |
6/10/06
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| Ichneumonid wasp. See more members of the
Hymenoptera order. |
Oriental Cockroach eating (very poisonous) Amanita
mushroom. |
Wheel Bug Nymph. |
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| Hackberry Emperor. See more
Emperors and some Snouts. |
Maybe a hornet. Very large, over an inch long. |
Green Stink Bug |
Lauxaniid flies: mating pair and a possible interloper.
See more flies. |
5/20/06
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| Mystery moth: The head is on the left and has two long,
thin antennae. It was about 4 mm long. See more
moths. |
Another mystery critter trying to puzzle me! See
more mystery critters. |
Beetle. |
Great Spangled Fritillary. See other
Heliconians. |
Another Great Spangled Fritillary |
4/13/06
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| Harvester
(Feniseca tarquinius), Johnston Mill, Orange County, NC, 4/13/06
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A view of another Harvester in which backlighting shows
the pattern on the dorsal side of the wings. |
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| Snapping Turtle,
Johnston Mill
Nature Preserve,
Orange County, NC, 4/13/06. |
8/25/05
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| Gray Hairstreak,
Johnston's Mill, Orange County, NC, 8/25/05. |
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