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Durham, NC 4/28/26
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| Two-flower Melic Grass |
Dovefoot Geranium |
Chipping Sparrow |
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Durham, NC 4/27/26
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| Plant bug |
Case-bearing leaf beetle larva |
Spider |
Golden-backed Snipe Fly |
Same Golden-backed Snipe Fly |
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| Ant dragging Golden-backed Snipe Fly |
Jumping spider (Phidippus audax) |
Jumping spider (Phidippus audax) |
Same Golden-backed Snipe Fly |
Case-bearing leaf beetle larva with springtail |
Durham, NC 4/25/26
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| Red-shouldered Hawk |
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Red Clover |
Multiflora Rose |
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| Wolf spider |
Atamasco Lilies |
Male Northern Cardinal |
American airliner |
Fungus hyphae |
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| Hearts-a-bustin' bud with harvestman |
Hearts-a-bustin flower, partially eaten |
Moth |
Peony, from a neighbor's garden |
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Durham, NC 4/22/26
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| Teneral Blue Dasher |
Same teneral Blue Dasher |
Spring Azure? |
Yellow Passionflower vine |
Another Yellow Passionflower vine |
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Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium mucronatum) |
Jumping spider (Paraphidippus aurantius) attacking a young Goldenrod Crab Spider |
Mantis nymph |
Inchworm |
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Durham, NC 4/21/26
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| Blue-eyed Grass and others |
Blue-eyed Grass flowers and fruits |
Mock Strawberry fruit |
Male Northern Cardinal |
Hearts-a-bustin |
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| Greenbriar flowers and leaf |
Peach fruit and leaves, in a neighbor's yard |
Another peach fruit and leaves |
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Durham, NC 4/17/26
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| American Lady |
Male Zabulon Skipper |
Flower fly |
Greenbriar flowers |
Great Egret, flying north, high and slowly |
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| Flower fly |
Red-banded Hairstreak |
Male Northern Cardinal |
Part of a Blue Toadflax patch |
Female Eastern Bluebird |
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| Hispid Buttercup |
Parlin's Pussytoes |
Parlin's Pussytoes |
Dwarf Cinquefoil |
Black-tailed Red Sheetweaver |
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| Bubbles on grass blade |
Fungus gnat, caught in spider web |
Red-banded Hairstreak |
Flower fly (Microdon genus) |
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| Moth (Olethereutes genus) |
Pennsylvania Leatherwing Beetle |
Blue Toadflax |
Another Blue Toadflax |
Seed Shrimps |
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| Seed shrimps |
Japanese Maple samaras |
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Nature Trail, North Carolina Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC 4/16/26
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| Rattlesnake Fern (Botrypus virginianus) |
Another Rattlesnake Fern (Botrypus virginianus) |
Southern Wild Comfrey plant |
Southern Wild Comfrey stalk |
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| Spreading Chervil (Chaerophyllum procumbens) |
Pink Wood-sorrel |
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North Carolina Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC 4/16/26
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| Young White-Throated Sparrow |
Old White-Throated Sparrow |
Bald-faced Hornet |
Spider (Mangora placida) |
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Durham, NC 4/11/26
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| Cherry tree flower petals |
Fringe tree |
Fringe tree, close-up |
Mating crane flies |
Same mating crane flies |
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| Carpet Bugle (Ajuga reptans) |
Lyre-leaved Sage |
Fringe tree |
Green and Gold |
Red Tip Photinia |
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| Cherry tree petals |
Red Mulberry leaves |
Bitternut Hickory |
Flower fly |
Smooth Blackhaw |
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| Cherry tree flowers |
Red Mulberry catkins |
Fungus hyphae |
Hearts-a-bustin' buds |
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Durham, NC 4/10/26
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| Jumping spider (female Pelegrina proterva) |
Crab spider (Synema parvulum) |
Horned Spanworm (Nematocampa resistaria) |
Flowering Dogwood bract |
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| Jumping spider (Hentzia genus) |
Hawk dropping |
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail |
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Durham, NC 4/9/26
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| Amur Honeysuckle |
Dwarf Cinquefoil (Potentilla canadensis) |
Pearl Crescent |
Male Eastern Tailed-blue |
Needle-tip Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium mucronatum) |
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| Field Madder |
Fleabane |
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Durham, NC 4/8/26
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| Wild Chervil (Chaerophyllum procumbens) |
Mason bee (Osmia genus) |
Green and Gold |
Hearts-a-bustin' (Euonymus americanus) |
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| Fallen cherry blossoms |
Japanese Cypress fruits |
Buprestid beetle |
Red-spotted Purple |
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Durham, NC 4/7/26
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| Jumping spider (Phidippus audax) |
Jumping spider (Paraphidippus aurantius) |
Antmimic jumping spider (Synemosyna formica) |
Caterpillar |
Chalcidoid wasp (Anastatus genus) |
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| Wasp (Anastatus semiflavidus) |
Seed |
Dwarf Cinquefoil |
Sassafras (Sassafras albidum) flowers, fading |
Dovefoot Geranium |
Dovefoot Geranium flowers |
Durham, NC 4/6/26
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| Constricted Leafhopper (Agallia constricta) |
Jumping spider (male Pelegrina proterva) |
Carolina Wren |
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
Same Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
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| Chipping Sparrow with inchworm prey |
Same Chipping Sparrow |
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| Same Chipping Sparrow |
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Beaked Cornsalad |
Two-flower Melic Grass (mostly budding), with Orchard Spider |
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| Yellow Passionflower vine |
Another Yellow Passionflower vine |
Sticky Willy |
Beaked Cornsalad |
Hispid Buttercup |
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| Jumping spider (maybe female Pelegrina Proterva?) with spider prey |
Jumping spider (maybe female Pelegrina Proterva?) with spider prey |
Plant bug (Phytocoris genus) nymph |
Jumping spider (maybe female Pelegrina Proterva?) |
Running crab spider |
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| Ground Ivy |
Pennsylvania Sedge |
Carolina Cranesbill |
Persian Speedwell |
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Durham, NC 4/4/26
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| Transformer and fog at a power line cut |
Early Saxifrage |
Another Early Saxifrage |
Autumn Olive |
Red Tip Photinia flowers |
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| Big Periwinkle |
Little oaks |
Burning Bush flowers |
More Burning Bush flowers |
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Nature Trail, North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, NC 4/1/26
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| Little Brown Jug (Hexastylis arifolia) flower |
Another Little Brown Jug flower |
Both Little Brown Jug flowers and new leaves |
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| Virginia Pennywort |
Same Virginia Pennywort |
Wild Oat |
Rue Anemone |
Azure Bluets |
Common Dandelion seedhead |
Rue Anemone flower |
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| Southern Wild Comfrey (Andersonglossum virginianum) with flowers |
Same Southern Wild Comfrey |
Same Southern Wild Comfrey |
Mayapples, with 2 blooms |
Star Chickweed |
Common Vetch |
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| Dark-eyed Junco |
Eastern Sweetshrub |
Female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail |
Pennsylvania Sedge flowers |
Pennsylvania Sedge seedheads |
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| Rattlesnake Fern |
Another Southern Wild Comfrey (Andersonglossum virginianum), with buds |
Bee fly |
Phlox |
Another Mayapple, with one flower |
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| Juvenal's Duskywing |
Mystery leaves |
Virginia Spring Beauty |
Cutleaf Toothwort |
Another Mayapple |
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| Yellow Trillium |
Little Sweet Betsy |
Another two Little Sweet Betsys |
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