Boone, Watauga County, NC 6/30/18
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| Twelve-spotted Skimmer | Widow Skimmer | Broad-toothed Hedgenettle (Stachys latidens) |
Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle | Cabbage White |
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| Flower fly (Toxomerus genus) | Same flower fly | Fly | Willow Flycatcher | Green Lacewing |
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| Leafhopper (Graphocephala fennahi) | Moth | Plant bug (Orthops scutellatus). ID thanks to WonGun Kim. | Male Rambur's Forktail | Male Red-winged Blackbird |
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| Juvie American Robin | Same juvie American Robin | Spotted Jewelweed | Stilt Bug | Tarnished Plant Bug |
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| Treehopper (Entylia carinata) |
Moses Cone Memorial Park, Watauga County, NC 6/29/18
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| American Lady | Canada Geese | Common Milkweed | Mansion, seen from lake | Monarch |
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| Monarch on Red Clover | Moth, maybe victim of spider attack | Mountain mint | Mushrooms | Orchard Spider |
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| Orchard Spider | Oxeye Daisies | Pale Jewelweed | Picture-winged fly (Delphinia picta) | Rhododendron |
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| Rhododendron | Silver-spotted Skipper | St. John's wort | Summer Azure | Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) |
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| Virginia Spiderwort | American White Water Lily (Nymphaea odorata) | American White Water Lily (Nymphaea odorata) | American White Water Lily (Nymphaea odorata) | American White Water Lily (Nymphaea odorata) |
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| Mystery wildflower, maybe Fly Poison (Amianthium muscitoxicum) |
Boone, Watauga County, NC 6/29/18
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| Song Sparrow | Same Song Sparrow | Another Song Sparrow, with grasshopper prey | Same Song Sparrow |
Tanawha Trail, Avery County, NC 6/28/18
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| Crane fly | Fire Pink | Hangingflies | Hangingfly | Hangingfly |
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| Heal-all (Prunella vulgaris) | Moth (Rupela genus, maybe) | Snout moth (Urola nivalis, maybe) | Neighbor Moth (Haploa contigua) | Male Common Scorpion Fly |
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| Umbrellaleaf | Mountain Meadow Rue (Thalictrum clavatum) | Same Mountain Meadow Rue (Thalictrum clavatum) | Shaggy Soldier (Galinsoga parviflora) |
Boone, Watauga County, NC 6/28/18
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| Cuckoo wasp | Chicory | Chipping Sparrow | Eastern Kingbird | Same Eastern Kingbird |
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| Grackle | Iris with Japanese Beetle | Another iris | Leafhopper (Graphocephala fennahi) | Leafhopper nymph |
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| Pennsylvania Leatherwing Beetle | Plant bug (Neurocolpus genus) | Mushrooms | Phlox |
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| Early Queen Anne's Lace blossom | Male Red-winged Blackbird | Same bird | Song Sparrow | Same Song Sparrow |
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| Summer Azure | Strange tree | Wild Onion | Mystery wildflower |
Boone, Watauga County, NC 6/27/18
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| Chicory | Oxeye Daisy | Gray Catbird | Phlox | Song Sparrow |
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| Phlox with unusual pattern |
Durham, NC 6/23/18
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| Acanaloniid planthopper nymph | Tiny beetle | Common Milkweed seed pod | Green lacewing larva | Same green lacewing larva |
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| Jumping spider? | Katydid nymph | Leafhopper (Graphocephala versuta) | Leafhopper nymph (Oncometopia orbona) | Long-legged fly |
Durham, NC 6/22/18
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| Young female Citrine Forktail | Flatid planthopper | Rice Stink Bug |
Durham, NC 6/17/18
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| This Wheel Bug nymph had just completed a molt, discarding a black exuvia. |
Durham, NC 6/16/18
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| Cixiid planthopper | Flatid planthopper nymphs | Issid planthopper (Thionia bullata) nymph | Same issid planthopper (Thionia bullata) nymph | Queen Anne's Lace |
Durham, NC 6/13/18
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| Acanaloniid planthopper nymph | Aphid | Beetle | Flatid planthopper nymph | Pennsylvania Leatherwing |
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| Long-legged fly |
North Carolina Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC 6/13/18
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| Bullfrog (Rana catesbiana) | Hearts-a-Bustin' (Euonymus americanus) | Jack-in-the-Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum) | Little Wood Satyr | Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum virginianum) |
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| Rattlesnake Master (Eryngium yuccifolium) | Red-spotted Purple | Sensitive Briar (Mimosa microphylla) | Smooth Coneflower (Echinacea laevigata) | Snowberry Clearwing Moth |
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| Snowberry Clearwing Moth | Stokes' Aster (Stokesia laevis) | Tall Thimbleweed (Anemone virginiana) | Thread-waisted Wasp (Ammophila sabulosa) | Tuberous Grasspink (Calopogon tuberosus) |
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| Close-up of same Tuberous Grasspink | Water strider | Watershield (Brasenia schreberi) | Wheel Bug nymph | Same Wheel Bug nymph |
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| Wild Quinine (Parthenium integrifolium) with bee | Orange Milkwort (Polygala lutea) | Zebra Swallowtail | Barbara's Buttons (Marshallia genus) | Bee on Daisy Fleabane (Erigeron annuus) |
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| Cryptocephalid beetle (Bassareus detritus) | Blowfly | Butterfly Pea (Clitoria mariana) | Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa) | Coral Honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens) |
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| Violet Dancer | Flowering Raspberry (Rubus odoratus) | Green-and-Gold (Chrysogonum virginianum) |
Durham, NC 6/12/18
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| Green Lacewing | Small beetle | Planthopper |
Durham, NC 6/11/18
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| Acanaloniid planthopper nymph | Tiny beetle | Fly | Heal-all (Prunella vulgaris) | Leafhopper (Oncometopia orbona) nymph |
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| Leafhopper (Oncometopia orbona) | Cixiid planthopper | Tarnished Plant Bug | Wild Onion (Allium canadense) | Another Wild Onion |
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| Turkey Vulture |
Durham, NC 6/10/18
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| Male Slaty Skimmer | Wild Onion (Allium canadense) | Carolina Petunia (Ruellia caroliniensis) | Picture-winged Fly (Chaetopsis flavifrons) |
Durham, NC 6/9/18
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| Antmimic jumping spider | Carolina False Dandelion (Pyrrhopappus carolinianus) | Tachinid fly and weevil | Hoverfly (Mallota posticata). ID thanks to Kelsey J.R.P. Byers. | Fork-tailed Bush Katydid nymph |
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| Wild Onion (Allium canadense) | Another Wild Onion |
Durham, NC, 6/8/18
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| Seven-spotted Ladybug Beetle | Rambur's Forktails mating | March fly |
Durham, NC 6/7/18
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| Brown Thrasher | Same Brown Thrasher | Cabbage White | Common Milkweed (Asclepia syriaca) with a Carpenter Bee |
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| Golden Tickseed (Coreopsis tinctoria) | Daylily (Hemerocallis fulva) | New downtown building | Northern Mockingbird | Same Northern Mockingbird |
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| Money Plant (Lunaria annua) | A few seed pods of the same plant | Phlox? | Purple Coneflowers (Echinacea purpurea) | Song Sparrow |
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| Stink bug | Common Even Primrose or Sundrops (Oenothera biennis) | Thistle | Thistle gone to seed | Another thistle gone to seed |
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| Abandoned bicycle, which apparently slid down a sharp incline leading to a creek | Black-eyed Susan |
Durham, NC 6/5/18
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| Teneral Blue Dasher | Male Blue Dasher | Another teneral Blue Dasher | Broadleaf Cattail (Typha latifolia) | Flies |
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| Ichneumon wasp | Mantis exuvia | Sedge | Spotted Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis) | Turkey Vulture |
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| Floating Primrose-Willow (Ludwigia peploides) |
Durham, NC 6/2/18
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| Maybe a ladybug beetle, very tiny | Same beetle | Cocklebur Weevil | Dusky Ladybug Beetle | Froghopper nymph |
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| Same froghopper nymph | Grasshopper nymph | Leaf beetle (Lema solani). ID thanks to Blaine Mathison. | Northern Cricket Frog | Another Northern Cricket Frog |
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| Cixid planthopper | Slaty Skimmer | Spicebush Swallowtail | Same Spicebush Swallowtail |