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Mountain-to-Sea Trail, Buncombe County, NC
4/30/12
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| Wild Oat (Uvularia
sessilifolia) |
Showy Trillium (T. grandiflorum), fading |
Showy Trillium (T. grandiflorum), fresh |
Larkspur |
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(Phacelia bipinnata) |
Squawroot |
Stonecrop Sedum |
Long-horned Fairy Moth |
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| Nodding Trillium |
Tiny scarab beetle |
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Montreat, Buncombe County, NC 4/29/12
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| Mandarin
Duck at Susan Lake |
Stonecrop on
Elizabeth's Trail |
Mute Swan at Susan Lake |
Scorpionfly
on Elizabeth's Trail |
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| Canadian Violet |
Aphid |
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Durham, NC 4/27/12
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| American Lady |
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Durham, NC 4/26/12
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| Hump-backed Orb Weaver
(Eustala anastera) |
Buprestid beetle |
Ashy Clubtail |
Weevil |
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| An anomalous White Clover
flower that was somewhat pink |
Scarab beetle |
Wolf spider |
Wolf spider with egg sac |
Grass, unusually large |
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| Long-jawed orb weaver |
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Durham, NC 4/25/12
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| Seed Bug (Belonochilus
numenius), about 15 mm long. ID thanks to
Vassili Belov. |
American Lady |
Beetle larva, likely
Calosoma genus, fairly common lately |
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North Carolina Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC 4/24/12
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| Water strider (Trepobates
genus) |
Bumblebee on Wild Blue
Indigo flower |
Flame Azalea |
Jack-in-the-Pulpit |
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| Hearts-a-bustin' |
Close-up of one
Hearts-a-bustin' flower |
Pitcher plants |
American Wisteria (sideways
thumbnail) |
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Durham, NC 4/24/12
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| Tiny leaf beetle, about 1
mm long |
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Durham, NC 4/21/12
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| Male Eastern Bluebird with
worm |
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Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 4/20/12
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| Big jumping spider
(Phidippus otiosis) |
Another view of the big
jumping spider (Phidippus otiosus) |
American Lady |
Bird Vetch (Vicia cracca),
an introduced plant |
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| Pinkish White Clover
flowers |
Wild geranium |
Wild onion |
Potter Wasp (Eumenes
fraternus) |
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Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 4/18/12
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| Crimson Clover |
Peppered Jumper |
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Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, Orange County, NC
4/17/12
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| Golden-backed Snipe Fly |
Black-tailed Red
Sheetweaver web |
Black aphids that are most
definitely alive! Note that the top one is giving birth. |
Atamasco Lilies (Zephyranthes atamasca), very
chewed upon |
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| Common Goldstar
(Hypoxis hirsuta). I don't think it's either common or
hirsute! Every spring at least one plant shows up at this
particular site, but no others. |
Funnel web spider |
Tiny fly on my hat |
May be a
leafhopper nymph exuvia |
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| Long-jawed Orbweaver
(Tetragnatha laboriosa) |
Bashful Wakerobin
(Trillium catesbaei) |
False garlic (Nothoscordum bivalve) |
Jack-in-the-pulpit |
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Atamasco Lily, but its petals look wider. |
Pink Wood
Sorrel |
Wild Chervil |
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Hanging Rock State Park, Stokes County, NC
4/14/12
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| Dwarf Violet Iris (Iris verna) only about 2 inches high. It was the only one I
saw all day. |
A fringe tree, seen near
the lookout point at Cook's Wall. You can see the distant
valley in the background. |
A fetterbush (Lyonia
genus?), with some leaves just coming in and some fruits (at the
bottom), the only one I saw all day. |
A large crane fly |
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| Elephant mosquito |
Female Juvenal's Duskywing |
Snipe fly (Rhagio
mystaceous) |
Turkey Vulture |
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| Flower fly (Sericomyia
chrysotoxoides), seen near Cook's Wall lookout. Tentative
ID thanks to
JBurger. |
Male Juvenal's Duskywing |
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Durham, NC 4/13/12
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| Flower fly (Merodon
equestris) |
Carolina Satyr |
Jumping spider (Hentzia
palmarum) |
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Durham, NC 4/11/12
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| Female Eastern Tailed Blue |
An unusually small
American Lady |
Marsh fly |
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Asheboro, Randolph County, NC 4/9/12
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| Grass with
purple anthers |
Grass with purple anthers |
Carolina
Satyr, Birkhead Wilderness Loop |
Pink Wood
Sorrel, Birkhead Wilderness Loop |
Green-and-gold |
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| Lyre-leaved Sage |
Eastern Bluestar |
Pisgah Covered Bridge, a
popular picnicking area. The bridge goes over a creek, where
several children were playing. |
Golden-backed Snipe Fly,
Birkhead Wilderness Loop |
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North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, Wake County,
NC 4/8/12
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| Twelve Mallard ducklings |
Familiar Bluet |
A white vetch (Vicia
grandiflora?), found in a
small patch of land on the museum grounds |
Buprestid beetle on bridge
over I-40 |
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| Cornflower (Centaurea
cyanus), on Meredith College campus |
More Cornflowers |
Common Toadflax |
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Durham, NC 4/8/12
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| Pearl Crescent |
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Durham, NC 4/6/12
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| Ground beetle (Calosoma
scrutata), apparently with prey, which might be an inchworm |
Pink Wood Sorrel (same as
4/5 below), but looking violet instead |
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Durham, NC 4/5/12
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| Pink Wood Sorrel |
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Third Fork Trail, Durham, NC 4/4/12
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| Male Northern Cardinal |
Pearl Crescent |
Question Mark |
Humpbacked Orb weaver |
Tumbling flower beetle |
Third Fork Trail, Durham, NC 4/3/12
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| Ground beetle (Calosoma
scrutata) |
Ashy Clubtail |
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South Lido Park, Sarasota County, FL 4/1/12
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| Ceraunus Blue, dorsal view |
Same Ceraunus Blue,
ventral view |
Great Blue Heron |
Showy Milkwort (Polygala
grandiflora) |
White Ibis |
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