Durham, NC 9/27/12
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| Dainty Sulphur | Same Dainty Sulphur |
Museum of Life and Science, Durham, NC 9/26/12
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| Common Buckeye | Large Milkweed Bugs. Adult has apparently recently molted. | May be the adult's exuvia. | Swamp Milkweed |
Penny's Bend Nature Preserve, Durham County, NC, 9/26/12
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| Mating leatherwing beetles | Carolina Satyr | Asters | Arabesque Orb Weaver |
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| Moth (and much smaller insect on the right) on goldenrod (Salidago genus) | Dew-laden spider web | Northern Cricket Frog |
Durham, NC 9/25/12
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| Issid planthopper |
Durham, NC 9/23/12
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| Drone Fly (Eristalis tenax) | Flower fly (Meromacrus acutus, Eristalinae subfamily) |
Durham, NC 9/21/12
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| Purple False Foxglove flowers | Male Great Blue Skimmer |
Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 9/19/12
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| Damsel bug nymph | Orchard Spider | Nursery web spider (Pisaurina mira) | Spotted Cucumber Beetle on Bidens aristosa aster | Phidippus genus jumping spider |
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| Sac spider (Clubionidae family). Note the spinnerets at the end of the abdomen. Kyron thinks it might be a Clubiona genus member. |
Durham, NC 9/18/12
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| Argiope | Broad-nosed weevil | Jumping spider (atypical Phidippus audax?) with prey | Long-legged fly |
Durham, NC 9/15/12
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| Leaffooted Bug | Pearl Crescent on aster (Bidens aristosa) |
Raleigh, NC, downtown 9/14/12
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| House Sparrow | Sunset | Megachilid bee on Common Boneset | Same bee on Common Boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum) | Same bee |
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| Butterfly mural near Moore Square |
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh 9/14/12
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| Cloudless Sulphur on a Spotted Jewelweed | Sculptures | Paraguayan Purslane (Portulaca amilis), an introduced plant found in the Atlantic coast states from Virginia to Florida. |
Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, Orange County, NC 9/13/12
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| Mystery fly, a scorpion fly mimicker | Mystery tree | Silvery Checkerspot | Ichneumon wasp |
Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 9/12/12
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| Smooth Flower Spider on a Bidens aristosa | Jumping spider, maybe a male Hentzia palmarum, probably freshly molted | Rather white Little Yellow | Ocola Skipper | Somehow this eclosing Cloudless Sulphur got rotated 90° by the thumbnail software. |
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| Carolina Satyr | Argiope aurantia | Filmy Dome Spider | Bee fly |
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| Argiope aurantia | Crab spider? | Nursery Web Spider | Leatherwing beetle with eclosing failure |
Flat River Waterfowl Impoundment, Durham County, NC 9/11/12
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| A black form female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail on a thistle | Passionflower | Viceroy | Painted Lady on a Bidens aristosa aster |
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| Ailanthus Webworm Moth | Crab spider attacking a bee | Cloudless Sulphur | Little Yellow on white morning glory | Moth |
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| Adult and nymph Large Milkweed Bugs | Very young Large Milkweed Bug nymph attacking an older one | Sleepy Orange on white morning glory | Flower longhorn beetle on a Bidens aristosa flower. |
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| Sleepy Oranges and Pearl Crescents puddling | Sleepy Oranges | Grass | Snowberry Clearwing Moth |
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| Ichneumon wasp |
Mason Farm Biological Reserve, Orange County, NC 9/9/12
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| Appalachian Brown | May be a Pselliopus cinctus assassin bug, but normally they are orange. | Common Buckeye | Carolina Satyr |
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| Wandering Glider | Sleepy Orange | Robber fly (Efferia genus) | Margined Leatherwing Beetle on a Bearded Beggarticks (Bidens aristosa) | Bee fly |
Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 9/9/12
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| Jumping spider (male Hentzia palmarum) | Two-lined Froghopper |
Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 9/8/12
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| Hackberry Emperor (dorsal) | Hackberry Emperor (ventral) | Pearl Crescents on deer scat, complete with persimmon seeds | Yellow-collared Scape Moth |
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| Carpenter bee | Jumping spider (Tmarus genus) |
Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 9/7/12
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| Male Goldenrod Crab Spider | Looper moth visiting Common Boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum) flowers | Owlet moth (Spragueia leo). Thanks to Richard C. Hoyer for the genus ID and Maury J. Heiman for the species ID. | Common Scorpion Fly |
Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 9/6/12
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| Orb weaver (Mangora gibberosa) |
Durham, NC 9/5/12
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| Flatid planthopper | Common Looper Moth |
Durham, NC 9/4/12
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| Green Lynx Spider | Pearl Crescent | Spotted Cucumber Beetle | Another view | Mating thread-waisted wasps |
Durham, NC 9/2/12
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| Green Lynx Spider on a street lamp pole | Northern Pearly Eye | Chinese Mantis | Virginia Opossum, seen at 10 pm |
Durham, NC 9/1/12
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| Hearts-a-bustin' (Euonymus americanus) |