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Durham, NC 2/28/21
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| Male Northern Cardinal preening |
Common Chickweed |
Hairy Bittercress |
Pine Siskins bathing in a puddle |
Song Sparrow |
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| Same Song Sparrow |
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Durham, NC 2/27/21
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| Carolina Wren |
Diamond-backed Froghopper |
Hairy Bittercress |
Pennsylvania Bittercress |
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Durham, NC 2/26/21
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| Brown Creeper |
Same Brown Creeper |
Globular springtails |
Same group of springtails |
Another group of globular springtails |
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| Seven globular springtails, some frog eggs, and vegetation |
A globular springtail |
Elongate springtail (Isotoma arctica) |
Grass with pink flowers |
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Durham, NC 2/25/21
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| Ant (Pseudomyrmex ejectus) |
Bee |
Singing female Eastern Bluebird |
Jumping spider (Hentzia mitrata) |
Same jumping spider |
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| Long-jawed orb weaver |
Marsh fly |
Wolf spider |
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Durham, NC 2/24/21
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| Male Northern Cardinal |
Same male Northern Cardinal |
Carolina Wren |
Same Carolina Wren |
Same Carolina Wren |
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| Chipping Sparrow |
Clamshells, near Third Fork Creek |
Male Eastern Bluebird |
Same male Eastern Bluebid |
Red-shouldered Hawk |
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| Northern Mockingbird |
Northern Flicker |
Red-winged Blackbird |
Running crab spider |
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| Me, on bridge over the Third Fork Creek |
Tachinid fly |
Square-headed wasp (Rhopalum genus), in the Crabronidae family. ID thanks to Bob Biagi. |
Persian Speedwells (Veronica persica) |
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Durham, NC 2/23/21
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| Female Eastern Bluebird |
Same Female Eastern Bluebird |
Same Female Eastern Bluebird |
Same Female Eastern Bluebird |
Jumping spider |
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| Jumping spider |
Midge |
Persian Speedwells |
Purple Dead-nettle |
Male Red Maple flowers |
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| Tubetail thrip (Megalothrips bonanni), showing beak |
Another Tubetail thrip (Megalothrips bonanni). ID thanks to Manfred R. Ulitzka. |
White-breasted Nuthatch |
Same White-breasted Nuthatch |
Same White-breasted Nuthatch |
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| Same White-breasted Nuthatch |
Same White-breasted Nuthatch |
Eastern Phoebe |
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Durham, NC 2/22/21
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| Red-shouldered Hawk |
Same Red-shouldered Hawk |
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Durham, NC 2/21/21
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| Carolina Chickadee |
Same Carolina Chickadee |
Same Carolina Chickadee |
Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
Same Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
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| Gall wasp, looks very much like Andricus splendens. But little information exists on the appearance of gall wasps of any species, since pictures of galls dominate its coverage. |
Same gall wasp |
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Durham, NC 2/20/21
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| Male Eastern Bluebird |
Female Eastern Bluebird |
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Durham, NC 2/19/21
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| Female Eastern Bluebird |
Lenten Rose (Helleborus orientalis). An introduced plant. |
Long-jawed orb weaver |
Male Red-bellied Woodpecker |
Same woodpecker |
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| Red Maple (Acer rubrum) buds |
Red-shouldered Hawks mating |
Red-shouldered Hawks after mating |
Same Red-shouldered Hawks after mating |
Running crab spider |
Durham, NC 2/17/21
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| Ant (Pseudomyrmex ejectus), Durham, NC, 2/17/21. Genus ID thanks to Ken Wolgemuth. Species ID thanks to Steven Wang. |
Tachinid fly |
Arabesque orb weaver |
Seed bug nymph (Kleidocerys genus). ID thanks to Ken Wolgemuth. |
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Durham, NC 2/16/21
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| Male Northern Cardinal |
Female Northern Cardinal |
Common Chickweed |
Male Eastern Bluebird |
Female House Finch |
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| Pachygronthid bug |
Song Sparrow |
Wolf spider? |
Cobweb spider? |
Tufted Titmouse |
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| White-throated Sparrow |
Assassin bug |
Brown-headed Nuthatch |
Same Brown-headed Nuthatch |
Same Brown-headed Nuthatch |
Durham, NC 2/15/21
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| Squirrel damage |
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Durham, NC 2/11/21
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| Ant |
Aphid |
Ironweed seedhead |
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Durham, NC 2/9/21
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| Red-shouldered Hawk |
Same Red-shouldered Hawk |
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker |
Running crab spider |
Song Sparrow |
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| Spider wasp |
Common Chickweed |
Downy Woodpecker |
Male Eastern Bluebird |
American Goldfinch |
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| Hairy Bittercress |
Hairy Bittercress |
Jumping plant louse |
Same jumping plant louse |
Jumping spider (male Hentzia mitrata) |
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| Osprey aircraft |
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Durham, NC 2/8/21
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| Antmimic jumping spider (Synemosyna formica) |
Carolina Chickadee |
Same Carolina Chickadee |
Same Carolina Chickadee |
Female Eastern Bluebird |
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| Female Eastern Bluebird |
Flower fly |
American Goldfinch |
Arabesque Orb Weaver |
Song Sparrow |
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| Same Song Sparrow |
Same Song Sparrow |
Cobweb spider? |
Parasitoid wasp |
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Durham, NC 2/7/21
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| Male Eastern Bluebird |
Jumping spider |
Same jumping spider |
Crane fly larva. Tentative ID thanks to Ken Wolgemuth. |
Same crane fly larva |
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| Red-bellied Woodpecker |
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Durham, NC 2/6/21
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| Cedar Waxwing |
Common Chickweed |
Henbit |
Jumping spider |
Leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea) |
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| Leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea) |
Male Red Maple flowers |
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Durham, NC 2/5/21
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| Beetle with clavate antennae |
Jumping spider (Hentzia palmarum) |
Mystery spider |
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Durham, NC 2/4/21
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| Female Northern Cardinal |
Female Eastern Bluebird |
Same female Eastern Bluebird |
Another female Eastern Bluebird |
Same female Eastern Bluebird |
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| Male Eastern Towhee |
Same male Eastern Towhee |
Ruby-crowned Kinglet with "crown" showing |
Same Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
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Durham, NC 2/3/21
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| Orb weaver (Araniella displicata) |
Same orb weaver (Araniella displicata) |
Purple Dead-nettle |
Orb weaver |
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Durham, NC 2/2/21
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Hairy Bittercress |
Periwinkle |
Song Sparrow |
White-throated Sparrow |
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| Sparrows |
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Durham, NC 2/1/21
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| Hairy White Oldfield Aster |
Northern Mockingbird |
Northern Mockingbird |
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