Durham, NC 10/31/17
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| Aphid | Juvie male Eastern Bluebird | Tiny froghoper | Same froghopper | Pearl Crescent |
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| Eastern Phoebe | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
Jordan Lake (inlet west of 751), Chatham County, NC 10/28/17
This time, the lake bed had no water other than a few small puddles, and was mostly dry enough to walk on. False Nutsedge, a marsh plant, dominated the vegetation bordering the lake, and those farthest from the center of the lake had died. A few Water Primrose and smartweed plants showed up on the lake bed, and Tarnished Plant Bugs found their way to the smartweed. The nearby pond, apparently much deeper, remained full, without either vegetation or animal life. As I did last time, I found a discarded boot, this time lost under more mysterious circumstances.
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| Toad bug | Seed-bearing Valley Redstem and False Nutsedge, on the far east end of the inlet | Blooming Valley Redstem | Blooming Water Primrose | American Lady |
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| Blackbirds | Boot | Clam shell | Another clam shell |
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| Convergent Ladybug Beetle (Hippodamia convergens) | Same beetle | Deer scat, with flies and persimmon seeds | Grasshopper |
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| Ground beetle (Bembidion genus) | Part of the northern edge of the mudflat, with False Nutsedge in the foreground | Small part of the dry lake bed, with small plants, mostly False Nutsedge | View of the southern border of the lake bed from the northern one. |
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| View of Highway 751 from the east end of the inlet | A view of the center of the lake bed | A view of the north end from fairly close, showing the vegetation that sprang up as the lake water receded | A male midge that I caught while flying |
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| Monarch (dorsal view) | Same Monarch (ventral view) | Moth | Mystery muck |
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| Tarnished Plant Bug on smartweed |
Pinehurst, Moore County, NC 10/27/17
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| Monarch on White Heath Asters |
Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, Southern Pines, Moore County, NC 10/27/17
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| Flower fly and solitary bee on an aster in the woods | Pine Barrens Gentian (Gentiana autumnalis) | Fish, (several inches long) in unusually high creek | Flower flies and a solitary bee on aster in the woods | Flower fly |
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| Sandhills scorpion fly (Panorpa rufa) | Grasshopper | Wasp (Campsomeris genus) on aster at Visitor Center |
Durham, NC 10/26/17
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| Male Pileated Woodpecker pecking a hole | Same Male Pileated Woodpecker | Savannah Sparrow? | Song Sparrow | Song Sparrow |
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| Song Sparrow | Twelve-spotted Skimmer | Bumblebee on Wingstem | Mating crane flies | Differential Grasshopper |
Durham, NC 10/22/17
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| Aphid | Multi-colored Asian Ladybug Beetle larva | Fly | Jumping spider (Phidippus genus) | Another jumping spider |
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| Multi-colored Asian Ladybug Beetle | Male orb weaver (Neoscona genus) | Spotted Cucumber Beetle | Same Spotted Cucumber Beetle | Tiny wasp |
Durham, NC 10/19/17
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| Aphid | Winged aphid | Same winged aphid | Aphid exuvia | Aphid exuvia |
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| Aphid exuvia | Assassin bug (Zelus genus) | Small beetle | Caterpillar | Dark Fishing Spider |
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| Mystery insect | Jumping spider | Probably a ladybug larva | Leafhopper (Graphocepha versuta) | Leafhopper nymph |
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| Soldier fly |
Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 10/16/17
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| Great Blue Heron | Horseshoe crab | Killdeer | Same Killdeer | Marbled Godwit |
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| Marbled Godwit | Semi-palmated Plover | Same Semi-palmated Plover |
Bay St. Louis, Hancock County, MS 10/16/17
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| Great Egret | Brown Pelican | Juvie gull | Same juvie gull | Blue Jay |
Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 10/15/17
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| Ruddy Turnstone | Marbled Godwits and other birds, maybe Willets | Juvie Brown Pelican | Dog |
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| Black Skimmers |
Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 10/14/17
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| Common Buckeye | Gulf Fritillary | Same Gulf Fritillary | Lilies | Little Yellow |
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| Long-tailed Skipper |
Waveland, Hancock County, MS 10/14/17
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| Cloudless Sulphur | Giant Swallowtail | Same Giant Swallowtail | Monarch | Seedbox |
Bay St. Louis, Hancock County, MS 10/13/17
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| Checkered skipper | Long-tailed Skipper | Another Long-tailed Skipper | Yet another Long-tailed Skipper | Maybe Paraguayan Purslane? |
Buccaneer State Park, Hancock County, MS 10/13/17
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| Little Yellow | Northern Mockingbird | Moth | Orchard Spider | Ocola Skipper |
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| Bee hidden in Common Boneset | Common Buckeye | Barred Yellow | Crablike Spined Orb Weaver |
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| Same Crablike Spined Orb Weaver | Gulf Fritillary | Apparently Asian Multicolored Ladybug Beetle pupa, or its deserted exoskeleton |
Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 10/13/17
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| Semi-palmated Plover | Ruddy Turnstone | Marbled Godwit | Lobster/crayfish skeleton? |
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| Great Blue Heron | Great Blue Heron | Black Skimmers |
Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 10/12/17
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| American Snout (at the beach) | Drooping Autumn Crocus | Black Skimmer | Black Skimmer | Common Starlings |
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| Black Skimmers and gulls in the process of moving to a new spot on the beach | Mostly Black Skimmers | Black Skimmers and gulls |
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| Cloudless Sulphur on a Turk's Cap | Great Blue Heron and gulls | Gulf Fritillary | Another Gulf Fritillary on a Turk's Cap | Gulf Fritillary |
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| Long-tailed Skipper (Urbanus proteus) | Gulls and Marbled Godwit | Plover? | Semi-palmated Plover |
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| Snowy Egret flushing out at least four and maybe six fish | Same Snowy Egret flushing out three fish | Flying terns |
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| Terns, Black Skimmer, gulls and a a large bird that looks like a Black Skimmer/gull hybrid | Terns and a few Black Skimmers moving |
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| Verbena on grass median | White Winged Dove |
Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 10/11/17
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| Huge cargo ship headed for the port | Scarlet-bodied Wasp Moth (Cosmosoma myrodora), which had flown inside | Gulf Fritillary on a Firewheel flower | Gulf Fritillary on asters | Gulf Fritillary on another Firewheel |
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| White Pelicans, which never returned after this evening |
Flat River Waterfowl Impoundment, Durham County, NC 10/5/17
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| Aphid, found on my hat | Cloudless Sulphur | Meadow | Painted Lady on Common Boneset | Pearl Crescent |
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| Eastern Phoebe | Variegated Fritillary in flight | Another Variegated Fritillary | Yet another Variegated Fritillary |
Durham, NC 10/2/17
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| Jumping spider (Phidippus genus) | Another jumping spider with aphid prey | Jumping spider (Hentzia palmarum) with fly prey | Long-legged fly trapped in new trail bollard paint | Paper wasp |
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| Female Eastern Pondhawk | Fledgling American Robin | Wasp | Aphid | Aster seedhead (Spanish needles) |
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| Tiny beetle | Male Northern Cardinal | Same male Northern Cardinal | Caterpillar |
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| Cobweb spider | Fiery Skipper on Pickerelweed | Barklouse |