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Nags Head Wood Ecological Preserve

2/18/11

Plasterer Bee (right) with nest.  It's a Colletes inaequalis, a member of the Colletidae family.	Partridgeberry, which was abundant in this area	Fallen tree	Holly Tree bark

Egg case, maybe of a mantid: the holes suggests baby mantids have broken out.	These three pictures show duckweed-covered swamps.