Home Field and Swamp: Animals and Their Habitats

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April 2026

Durham, NC 4/10/26

 
Jumping spider (female Pelegrina proterva) Crab spider (Synema parvulum) Horned Spanworm (Nematocampa resistaria) Flowering Dogwood bract  

 

       
Jumping spider (Hentzia genus)        

Durham, NC 4/9/26

Amur Honeysuckle Dwarf Cinquefoil (Potentilla canadensis) Pearl Crescent Male Eastern Tailed-blue Blue-eyed grass

 
Field Madder Fleabane  

Durham, NC 4/8/26

 
Wild Chervil (Chaerophyllum procumbens) Mason bee (Osmia genus) Green and Gold Hearts-a-bustin' (Euonymus americanus)  

 
Fallen cherry blossoms Japanese Cypress fruits Buprestid beetle Red-spotted Purple  

Durham, NC 4/7/26

Jumping spider (Phidippus audax) Jumping spider (Paraphidippus aurantius) Antmimic jumping spider (Synemosyna formica) Caterpillar Chalcidoid wasp (Anastatus genus)

Wasp (Anastatus semiflavidus) Seed Dwarf Cinquefoil Sassafras (Sassafras albidum) flowers, fading Dovefoot Geranium Dovefoot Geranium flowers

Durham, NC 4/6/26

Constricted Leafhopper (Agallia constricta) Jumping spider (male Pelegrina proterva) Carolina Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Same Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Chipping Sparrow with inchworm prey Same Chipping Sparrow      

 
Same Chipping Sparrow   Beaked Cornsalad Two-flower Melic Grass (mostly budding), with Orchard Spider  

Yellow Passionflower vine Another Yellow Passionflower vine Sticky Willy Beaked Cornsalad Hispid Buttercup

Jumping spider (maybe female Pelegrina Proterva?) with spider prey Jumping spider (maybe female Pelegrina Proterva?) with spider prey Plant bug (Phytocoris genus) nymph Jumping spider (maybe female Pelegrina Proterva?) Running crab spider

 
Ground Ivy Pennsylvania Sedge Carolina Cranesbill Persian Speedwell  

Durham, NC 4/4/26

Transformer and fog at a power line cut Early Saxifrage Another Early Saxifrage Autumn Olive Red Tip Photinia flowers

 
Big Periwinkle Little oaks Burning Bush flowers More Burning Bush flowers  

Nature Trail, North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, NC 4/1/26

   
Little Brown Jug (Hexastylis arifolia) flower Another Little Brown Jug flower Both Little Brown Jug flowers and new leaves    

Virginia Pennywort Same Virginia Pennywort Wild Oat Rue Anemone Azure Bluets Common Dandelion seedhead Rue Anemone flower

Southern Wild Comfrey (Andersonglossum virginianum) with flowers Same Southern Wild Comfrey Same Southern Wild Comfrey Mayapples, with 2 blooms Star Chickweed Common Vetch

Dark-eyed Junco Eastern Sweetshrub Female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Pennsylvania Sedge flowers Pennsylvania Sedge seedheads

Rattlesnake Fern Another Southern Wild Comfrey (Andersonglossum virginianum), with buds Bee fly Phlox Another Mayapple, with one flower

Juvenal's Duskywing Mystery leaves Virginia Spring Beauty Cutleaf Toothwort Another Mayapple

 
Yellow Trillium Little Sweet Betsy Another two Little Sweet Betsys    

 

 

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