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Durham, NC, 7/29/25
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| Virginia Buttonweed |
Silver-spotted Skipper |
Sweat bee on Creeping Cucumber flower |
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail |
Stiff Marsh Bedstraw |
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| White Crossed Seed Bug |
Wasp on smartweed |
Moth |
Great Gold Digger Wasp |
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| Mole Cricket Hunter Wasp (Larra bicolor) |
Great Gold Digger Wasp (Sphex ichneumoneus) |
Creeping Cucumber flower and fruit |
Creeping Cucumber flower (and another fruit?) |
Cardinal Flower |
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| Common Nightshade, with green fruits and flowers |
Common Nightshade, with flowers and black fruits |
Male Blue Dasher |
Arabesque Orb Weaver |
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Durham, NC, 7/25/25
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| Swamp Agrimony branch |
Red-spotted Purple |
Same Red-spotted Purple |
Planthopper Parasite Moth caterpillar |
Same Planthopper Parasite Moth caterpillar |
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| Marbled Orb Weaver |
Jumpseed |
Female Great Blue Skimmer |
Same female Great Blue Skimmer |
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| Big Bluestem |
Swamp Agrimony flowers |
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Ambush Bug |
Durham, NC, 7/23/25
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| Ambush bug |
Ambush bug nymph |
Same ambush bug |
Cardinal Flower |
Flies with mystery object |
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| Jumpseed |
Dew on grass |
Pearl Crescent |
Leaf-footed bug |
Scarlet Rosemallow |
Another Scarlet Rosemallow |
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| Same Scarlet Rosemallow |
Teneral Eastern Pondhawk with moth prey |
Slaty Skimmer |
Slaty Skimmer |
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| Spotted Cucumber Beetle |
Same Spotted Cucumber Beetle |
Turkey Vulture |
Another Turkey Vulture |
Dew-laden dragonfly wings |
Durham, NC, 7/17/25
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| Scarlet Rosemallow (Hibiscus coccineus) |
Scarlet Rosemallow (Hibiscus coccineus) |
Maple leaf |
Spotted Jewelweed flower |
Spotted Jewelweed leaf |
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| Yellow-and-black Garden Spider (Argiope aurantia) |
Virginia Dayflower |
Spotted Ladysthumb |
Male Eastern Pondhawk |
Pignut Hickory |
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| Moth |
Juvie House Finches |
Goldenrod |
American Burnweed bud in the process of blooming |
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| Carolina Desert-chicory |
Blowfly |
Arabesque Orbweaver |
Same Arabesque Orbweaver |
Same Arabesque Orbweaver |
Ambush bug |
Durham, NC 7/9/25
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| Downy Yellow False Foxglove (Aureolaria virginica) |
Downy Yellow False Foxglove (Aureolaria virginica) |
Downy Yellow False Foxglove (Aureolaria virginica) |
Downy Yellow False Foxglove (Aureolaria virginica) |
Carolina Wild Petunia |
Durham, NC 7/7/25
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| Five-lined Skink juvie |
Leaf-footed bug |
Female Eastern Amberwing |
Another female Eastern Amberwing |
Goldenrod Crab Spider, very young, apparently lost some legs to a would-be predator. |
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| Common St. John's Wort |
Dew-laden spider web |
Crab spider and spider exuvia leg |
Cabbage White |
Same Cabbage White |
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| Teneral Blue Dasher |
Ambush bug nymph, with some new green |
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail |
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Durham, NC 7/3/25
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| Jumping spider (male Hentzia mitrata) |
Strawberry Rootworm |
Ironweed flower |
Japanese Beetle |
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| Virginia Dayflower |
Paper wasp |
Indian Hemp (Apocynum cannabinum) |
Dodder |
Male Citrine Forktail |
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| Buttercups |
Ambush bug nymph, learning how to get green |
Another ambush bug nymph, learning how to get green |
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Durham, NC 7/1/25
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| Hearts-a-bustin' seedhead |
Red-shouldered Hawk with prey |
Juvie Eastern Bluebird |
Trapdoor spider |
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