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Durham, NC 5/31/25
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| Yellow Passionvine |
White Avens |
Purple Top Vervain |
Purple Top Vervain flowers |
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| Midge (female Axarus festivus) |
Midge (female Axarus festivus) |
Larger Elm Leaf Beetle |
Jumping spider (male Pelegrina proterva) |
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| Jumping spider (male Hentzia mitrata) |
Herbwilliam |
Mystery fly |
Flower fly |
Same flower fly |
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| Feather |
Dwarf spider |
Diamondback Froghopper |
Crane fly |
Male Northern Cardinal |
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| Blue-fronted Dancer |
Another Blue-fronted Dancer |
Anchor Stink Bug (Stiretrus anchorago) |
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Durham, NC 5/28/24
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| Woolly aphid |
Woodcroft Stormwater Wetland |
Sycamore Tussock Moth caterpillar |
Shore fly (Paralimna punctapennis), a member of the Ephydridae family |
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| Moth (Olethreutini tribe), maybe Enarmonia formosana |
Meadow Garlic, after rain |
More Meadow Garlic |
More Meadow Garlic |
Leafhopper (Graphcephala versuta) |
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| Female House Finch |
Grasshopper nymph |
Fungus gnat |
Eastern Bluebird juvie |
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| Fiddle Dock |
More Fiddle Dock |
Deltocephalid leafhopper (Scaphytopius genus, Cloanthanus subgenus). ID thanks to Kyle Kittelberger |
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| Plant bug (Lopidea genus) |
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Asian Multi-colored Lady Beetle |
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Durham, NC 5/24/25
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| Wheel Bug nymph |
Same Wheel Bug nymph |
Rice Stink Bug |
Spotted Thyris (Thyris maculata) |
Same Spotted Thyris (Thyris maculata) |
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| Meadow Garlic |
More Meadow Garlic |
Grasshopper nymph |
Deertongue flowers |
Deertongue |
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| Deertongue buds |
Brown Marmorated Stink Bug |
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Durham, NC 5/20/25
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| Male Zabulon Skipper |
Web on Sycamore leaf |
Spotted Lady Beetle |
Popped Spotted Jewelweed pod |
Spider |
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| Sawfly (Aglaostigma semiluteum) larva on Spotted Jewelweed |
Same sawfly larva |
Red-necked Cane Borer |
Pennsylvania Leatherwing |
Meadow Garlic |
More Meadow Garlic |
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| Yet more Meadow Garlic |
Scaphoid leafhopper nymph |
Red-banded Leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea) |
Leafhopper |
Jumping spider (Phidippus audax), with crab spider prey |
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| Horse fly eyes |
Hoverfly (Toxomerus genus) |
Ebony Jewelwing |
Eastern Gamagrass |
An earwig on a fleabane flower |
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| Dogbane Hemp |
Common Milkweed |
Carolina Desert-Chicory, with hoverfly (Toxomerus genus) |
Butterfly Weed |
Bumblebee |
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| Boxelder Bug nymph |
Purple Martins at home |
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Purple Martin in flight |
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| Turkey Vulture |
Purple Martin in flight |
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Durham, NC 5/17/25
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| Plant bug |
Same plant bug |
Leaf-footed bug nymph |
Jumping spider (male Colonus sylvanus) |
Green Lynx Spider on fleabane flower |
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| Green Lynx Spider on fleabane flower |
Earwig pair on Common Milkweed |
Dwarf spider |
Mating Common Water Striders and fish in Third Fork Creek |
Female Blue Dasher, in obelisk position |
Durham, NC 5/16/25
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| Stink bug |
Spider with fly prey |
Southern Magnolia |
Male Eastern Pondhawk, maybe late teneral |
Mock Strawberry |
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| Spotted Lady Beetle larva |
Flower fly (Toxomerus marginatus) |
Flower flies (Toxomerus marginatus), mating in flight |
Male Blue Dasher |
Ambush bug |
Durham, NC 5/13/25
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| Broad-headed Sharpshooter |
Boxelder Bug |
Teneral male Blue Dasher |
Female Blue Dasher |
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| Awl-fruited Sedge |
American Black Elderberry |
Cabbage White |
Boxelder Bug nymph |
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| Carolina Cranesbill seedheads, seeds visible |
Carolina Cranesbill seedheads |
Deertongue flower |
Deertongue buds |
Clouds between rainstorms |
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| Fiddle Dock flowers |
Fiddle Dock |
Red-lipped Green Lacewing larva on Hophornbeam male catkin |
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| Meadow Garlic |
Hophornbeam female catkin |
Peppergrass |
Geometrid moth (probably Macaria genus) |
Spotted Lady Beetle |
Teneral or female Eastern Pondhawk |
Durham, NC 5/10/25
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| Yellow passionvine, trying to connect to a pole |
White Avens |
Another White Avens plant |
Red-spotted Purple |
Mock Strawberries |
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| Mock Strawberries |
Jumping spider (male Colonus sylvanus) |
Jumping spider (male Colonus sylvanus) |
Jumping spider (male Colonus sylvanus) |
Ghost spider |
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| Fleabane |
Purple Everlasting |
Earwig |
Female damselfly |
Crab spider (Synema parvulum) |
Crab spider (Synema parvulum) |
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| Chinese Privet flowers |
Bug |
Asian Multi-colored Lady Beetle, damaged |
Another Asian Multi-colored Lady Beetle, damaged |
Blue Pigroot |
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| Earwig, truncated |
Venus' looking-glass |
Polished Lady Beetle |
Plant bug |
Narrowleaf Blue-eyed Grass |
Durham, NC 5/8/25
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| Arrowwood Viburnum fruits |
American Persimmon flowers and leaves |
American Persimmon fallen flower, with thrip |
American Persimmon fallen flowers |
American Persimmon flowers and leaves |
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| American Persimmon flowers, buds, and leaves |
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Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 5/2/25
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| Ferries at dock |
Field of Sleepy Catchflies |
Male Brown-headed Cowbird |
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Ocracoke, Hyde County, NC 5/1/25
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| Sunset at Silver Lake |
Probably Carolina Watersnake (Nerodia sipedon williamengelsi), a subspecies of the Common Watersnake |
Purple Morning Glory |
Blue-eyed grass |
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