Indian Valley, Novato, Marin County, CA 4/30/17
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| Breeding male Western Fence Lizard | Common Ringlet | Jumping spider | Bowl Tube Iris (Iris macrosiphon) | Northern Checkerspot (Chlosyne palla eremita). ID thanks to John S. Ascher. |
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| California Sister | Same California Sister | Common Buckeye | Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium bellum) |
Larkspur, Marin County, CA 4/30/17
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| Caspian Tern | Canada Geese | Same Canada Geese | Flower fly | Hangingfly |
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| Maybe a female Scarlet Skimmer | Leafhopper | Owl's Clover (Castilleja densiflora) | Scotch Broom (Cytisus Scoparius), Larkspur, Marin County, CA, 4/30/17. Is officially an "invasive" species in California and several other states. | Snowy Egret |
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| Song Sparrow | Turtle at shopping center pond | Treasureflower (Gazania linearis) | Bug |
San Anselmo, Marin County, CA 4/29/17
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| Australian Tortoise Beetle (Trachymela sloanei). ID thanks to Vassily Belov. | Anise Swallowtail, seen in a field outside the residential area | California Quail | Western Fence Lizard | Sea Fig or Ice Plant (Carpobrotus chilensis), San Anselmo, Marin County, CA, 4/29/17. Officially "invasive." |
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| Sign seen on a residential area |
Larkspur, Marin County, CA 4/29/17
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| California Scrub Jay | Great Egret | Male House Finch | Ice Plants | Iris |
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| Leafhopper | Monkey flowers | Mt. Tamalpais, with Greenbrae in the foreground | Snakefly (Agulla genus) | Same Snakefly |
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| Maybe a fly, one of many swarming | Ithuriel's Spear (Triteleia laxa) |
Larkspur, Marin County, CA 4/28/17
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| Whimbrel | Treasureflower (Gazania linearis) | Purple Salsify (Tragopogon porrifolius), Larkspur, Marin County, CA, 4/28/17 | Wildflower, often seen growing out of rocks | Wild radish (Raphanus sativus) |
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| Scarlet Pimpernel | Bird-of-paradise | Common Ringlet | Dark-eyed Junco (western sub-species) | Great Blue Heron |
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| Hawk | Honeybee | Umber Skipper | Eared Grebe |
Larkspur, Marin County, CA 4/27/17
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| Snakefly (Agulla genus) | Wildflowers | California Poppies | Common Vetch | Male Fiery Skipper |
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| Flower fly | Halictid bee | Highway 101 seen from the north side of the Larkspur ferry inlet | Common Ringlet, seen on a nature trail in a grassy area | Mystery flowers on Sir Francis Drake Blvd. |
Marin County south of Larkspur, CA 4/27/17
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| West side of San Francisco Bay | A hydroplane near the west side of San Francisco Bay | East side of San Francisco Bay |
San Francisco, CA 4/27/17
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| SFO air traffic control tower | San Francisco Bay | Downtown San Francisco | Downtown San Francisco from a longer distance |
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| Downtown San Francisco on the way to the Golden Gate Bridge | A familiar landmark in the city where SFO is. |
Durham, NC 4/26/17
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| Zebra Swallowtail | Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | Fish, still alive in shallow marsh water | Maybe a Bluegill, still alive in shallow marsh water | Aquatic snail |
Durham, NC 4/25/17
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| Male Brown-headed Cowbird | Swimming fish partially exposed in a large puddle next to a marsh, created by heavy rains | Same fish | Another fish, with just its top fin showing |
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| Drowned frog | Male Mallard | Flying Solitary Sandpiper | Solitary Sandpiper |
Durham, NC 4/22/17
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| Atamasco Lilies | Ground beetle | Mesh web weaver (Dictynidae family). Family ID thanks to John and Jane Balaban. | Transitional male Eastern Pondhawk |
Durham, NC 4/21/17
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| Tiny fly (Loxocera cylindrica). Genus ID thanks to Ross Hill. Species ID thanks to Chris Angell. | Seven-spotted Ladybug Beetle | Wildflower |
North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, Orange County, NC 4/20/17
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| Bee on Daisy Fleabane | Black Swallowtail | Braconid wasp | Catesby's Trillium | Click beetle |
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| Common Wood-Sorrel, with fly | Dark-eyed Junco, apparently blind in one eye (stranded here because of that?) | Male Eastern Bluebird | Six-spotted Fishing Spider | Juvie Five-lined Skink |
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| Five-lined Skink | Another Five-lined Skink | Juvie Five-lined Skink | Two flower flies (Toxomerus genus) on Golden Alexander | Flower fly (Temnostoma daochus). ID thanks to Martin Hauser. |
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| Flower longhorn beetle | Gemmed Satyr | Golden-backed Snipe Fly | Hoary Puccoon | Jack-in-the-pulpit |
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| Jumping spider | Mourning Dove | Orchard Spider | Pink Wood-Sorrel | Red Buckeye flower |
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| American Robin | Green Six-spotted Tiger Beetle | Tree with carvings | Varied Carpet Beetle | Tiny wasp |
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| Collision of two mating Common Water Striders and a tadpole | Two mating Common Water Striders with prey and a tadpole | A collision of three Common Water Striders (two mating) with a tadpole | Wildflower plant | Two flowers of the plant on the left |
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| Zebra Longhorn Beetle | Same Zebra Longhorn Beetle with Varied Carpet Beetle |
Durham, NC 4/17/17
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| Male Zabulon Skipper | Red-banded Hairstreak | Pearl Crescent | Another Pearl Crescent | Eight-spotted Forester (Alypia octomaculata) |
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| Cornsalad | Jumping spider | Another jumping spider | Mock Strawberry | Male Eastern Pondhawk in transition from teneral to adult state |
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| Predated pupa? | Wasp | Weevil (Lixus concavus) | Tiny mite | Blue-eyed Grass |
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| Tiny beetle on grass | Another tiny beetle on grass; note the purple flowers. | Crab spider |
Jordan Lake, Chatham County, NC 4/15/17
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| Northern Cricket Frog | Feather | Another feather | Tiny fly | Ground beetle (Bembidion genus) |
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| Ground beetle (Bembidion genus) | Inchworm | Longhorn beetle (Euderces pini) | Man on jetski | Male midge |
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| Pygmy grasshopper pair | Skimmer in flight | Another skimmer in flight | Spider exuvia | Toad bug climbing onto grass blade |
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| Toad bug | Whirligig beetle | Wolf spider | Another wolf spider with an egg sac | Wolf spider carrying spiderlings |
Durham, NC 4/15/17
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| Hairy fungus beetle (Litargus tetraspilotus). ID thanks to Blaine Mathison. | Checkered skipper | Same checkered skipper | Crab spider with prey | Same crab spider |
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| Green Frog (Rana clamitans) | Probably a Cimbicid sawfly, was struggling in this position. When I turned it over, it flew away, showing a white abdominal ring. |
Eno River State Park (Bobbitt's Hole Trail), 4/14/17
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| Mining Bee near a nest entrance | Another mining bee | Four mining bees, two nest entrances |
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| Mining bees: one leaving a nest, two about to enter | One mining bee leaving a nest, another about to enter one | One mining bee (near bottom) leaving a nest, while another hangs out | One mining bee is entering a nest, while another is near one and a third is hovering. | Two mining bees are leaving nests while another hovers nearby. |
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| Orchard Spider | Another Orchard Spider | River Cooter | Rue Anemone | Turtles |
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| Broad-shouldered water striders (Veliidae family), very tiny and active | Atamasco Lily | Another Atamasco Lily | Bowl-and-Doily Spider | Carolina Satyr |
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| Clubmoss | Common Blue Violet | Giant Chickweed | Common Goldstar | Mayapple |
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| Two mining bees entering nests |
Durham, NC 4/13/17
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| Brown Snake | Flower fly (Toxomerus genus) | Japanese Mazus | Jumping spider (Pelegrina proterva) | Same jumping spider |
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| Long-jawed orb weaver | Lyre-leaved Sage | The Martin Luther King Blvd. bridge over the Third Fork Creek Trail | Pearl Crescent | Teneral Eastern Pondhawk |
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| Spider | Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | Two Eastern Tiger Swallowtails | Velvet Mite | Wolf spider |
Durham, NC 4/12/17
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| Swamp Darner (Epiaeschna heros) | Atamasco Lilies (same plants as yesterday) | Crimson Clover | Pearl Crescent |
Durham, NC 4/11/17
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| Aphid exuvia | Gemmed Satyr | Dragonfly in flight over pond | Crab spider | Tiny beetle |
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| Ant-mimic jumping spider | Atamasco Lilies |
Durham, NC 4/10/17
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| Pearl Crescent | Jumping spider | Same jumping spider | Early-instar bug nymph | Another bug nymph, with wing pads |
Duke Gardens, Durham, NC 4/9/17
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| Ants (near gardens) | Bee | Bird's nest (near gardens) | Dogwood | Dragonfly |
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| Duke Chapel | Karl with Johnny Appleseed statue on East Campus | Leafcutter bee | Painted Turtle | Poppy |
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| Purple poppies | Red Pochard | Female Red-winged Blackbird | Same female Red-winged Blackbird | Sculpture |
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| Silver-spotted Skipper | Solomon's Seal | Maybe a Painted Turtle |
American Tobacco Trail (Mileposts 0-2), Durham, NC 4/9/17
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| Blue Jay | Male Northern Cardinal | Grackle | Checkered skipper | Same checkered skipper |
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| Northern Mockingbird | Wild geranium |
Durham, NC 4/8/17
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| Beetle larva | Mating crane flies | Fly | Early-instar Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle larva | Leafhopper nymph |
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| Running crab spider | Tachinid fly | Same tachinid fly | Tussock moth caterpillar |
Durham, NC 4/7/17
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| Pseudoscorpion | Same pseudoscorpion | Common Toadflax | Tussock moth caterpillar | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
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| Froghopper | Flower fly | Teneral male Common Whitetail | Arabesque Orb Weaver |
Durham, NC 4/6/17
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| Jumping spider (male Hentzia palmarum) | Caddisfly | Tiny beetle | Flesh fly | Another flesh fly |
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| Jumping spider (Hentzia mitrata) facing off with leafhopper nymph | Jumping spider (female Hentzia mitrata) | Leafhopper |
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| Leafhopper | Leafhopper nymph | Same leafhopper nymph | Running crab spider |
Occoneechee Mountain Natural Area, Orange County, NC 4/5/17
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| Trailing Arbutus (Epigaea repens) | Wood Violet | Another Wood Violet | Teneral Blue Corporal | Bluets |
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| Buttercup | Dwarf Violet Iris (Iris verna) | Another Dwarf Violet Iris | Mystery wildflower | Fly (Rhamphomyia genus) |
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| Giant Chickweed | Halbard-leaved Violet | Jumping spider (Habronattus decorus) | Same jumping spider | Leaves |
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| Mayapples, with bloom | Pinxter Flower tree | Pinxter Flowers | Rock | Spider wasp |
Durham, NC 4/4/17
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| Seven-spotted Ladybug Beetle | Same Seven-spotted Ladybug Beetle | Pearl Crescent | Tiny leafhopper nymph (<= 1 mm long) | Same tiny leafhopper nymph |
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| Turkey Vulture | Another Turkey Vulture | A third Turkey Vulture | Five Turkey Vultures by the pond |
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| Barklouse | Buprestid beetle | Feral housecat | Chipping Sparrow | Another Chipping Sparrow |
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| Crane fly | Jumping spider (male Hentzia mitrata), actually seen 3/27 | Song Sparrow | Same Song Sparrow | Spider wasp |
Durham, NC 4/3/17
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| Black Swallowtail in the grass | Cherry tree flowers | Cherry tree flowers up close | Chipping Sparrow | Male Eastern Towhee |
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| Same male Eastern Towhee | Same male Eastern Towhee | Blue Toadflax |
Durham, NC 4/2/17
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| Mystery bird | Female Brown-headed Cowbird | Cherry tree branch | Carolina Chickadee | Same Carolina Chickadee |
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| Coral Honeysuckle | Female Eastern Bluebird | Fish caught in lake | Grape Hyacinth | Male Mallard |
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| Painted Turtles | Redbud | Song Sparrow | Same Song Sparrow | Same Song Sparrow |
Durham, NC 4/1/17
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| American Lady | Large Bee Fly | Carolina Satyr | Male Falcate Orangetip | Male Falcate Orangetip |
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| Green Six-spotted Tiger Beetle with prey | Orange Sulphur | Painted Turtle | Pearl Crescent | Another Pearl Crescent |
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| Red Admiral | Silver-spotted Skipper | Song Sparrow |