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Durham, NC 9/30/14
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| Mating Citrine Forktails |
Gray
(Copes?) Treefrog on goldenrod |
Same treefrog |
Northern
Cricket Frog |
Aquatic beetle |
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| Pearl Crescent |
Red-headed
Bush Cricket |
Purple False Foxglove |
Ladybug Beetle larva |
Mating
Citrine Forktails |
Raulston Arboretum, Raleigh,
Wake County, NC 9/28/14
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| Fiery Skipper on lantana |
Flowers |
Spotted
Cucumber Beetle eating pollen on a Turk's Cap. |
Checkered skipper |
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| Thread-waisted wasp |
Honeybee |
Monarch |
Orb weaver
web |
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North Carolina Art Museum, Raleigh, Wake County,
NC 9/28/14
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| A view of the lake on the grounds |
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Prairie Ridge Ecostation, Raleigh, Wake County, NC 9/28/14
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| Flower fly
(Spilomyia genus) |
Flower fly
(Eristalis dimidiatus) |
Ocola Skipper |
Common
Buckeye |
Diamond-backed Froghopper |
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fly as above (Spilomyia genus), ovipositing |
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North Carolina Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC 9/27/14
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| Red-banded Hairstreak
on Common Boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum) |
Flower fly
(Copestylum genus) |
Flower fly (Eristalis) |
Leafhopper (Scaphytopius nigrifrons) |
Trailing
Wild Bean (Strophostyles helvola), one plant near parking lot |
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| Paper wasp
on goldenrod |
Plant bug
(Neurocolpus genus) |
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Durham, NC 9/27/14
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| Bumblebee |
Red-banded Hairstreak |
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Durham, NC 9/26/14
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| Issid
planthopper |
Sleepy Orange |
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Durham, NC 9/25/14
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| Fly |
Rosepink (Sabatia angularis) |
Female
Common Scorpion Fly |
Bumblebee |
Longhorn bee |
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| Hoverfly |
Jumping
spider (Hentzia palmarum) |
Tarnished Plant Bug |
Same
Tarnished Plant Bug |
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Durham, NC 9/22/14
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| Leafcutter bee |
Large
Milkweed Bug |
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Durham, NC 9/21/14
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| Painted Lady |
Same
Painted Lady, ventral wing view |
Same Painted Lady |
Common Whitetail |
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Durham (local marsh), NC
9/21/14
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| Gray (Copes?) Treefrog |
Eastern
Tailed Blue |
Southern Emerald (Synchlora frontaria) Pupa |
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Durham, NC 9/20/14
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| Assassin
bug (Zelus genus) |
Cabbage
Looper Moths and a jumping spider, which had caught one. |
Fiery
Skipper on smartweed |
Pearl Crescent |
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Durham, NC 9/19/14
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| A Green
Lynx Spider (Peucetia viridans) and a small insect on this
aster. Note the elaborate work this spider has done with its
silk. |
Striped
Lynx Spider |
Spined
Soldier Bug |
Wasp and ladybug beetle |
Ichneumon wasp |
Larkspur, Marin County, CA
9/15/14
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| Fiery Skipper |
Ducks |
Flowers |
A local preschool |
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Larkspur (near Corte Madera),
Marin County, CA 9/15/14
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| The very
edge of Larkspur, showing an abandoned bridge. A pano image
constructed from four photos. |
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U. of California Botanical
Garden, Berkeley, CA 9/13/14
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| Palms |
Umber
Skipper (Poanes melane). It has a conservation rating of G4,
"apparently secure." ID thanks to
Cliff Ivy. |
Probably
another Poanes melane |
Spotted
Cucumber Beetle on a rose |
Woodland Skipper
(Ochlodes sylanoides). ID thanks to
Cliff Ivy. |
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| Pano shot
of the garden from the parking lot (3.57 MB). There is a woman
pointing at me in the bottom right-hand corner; I didn't notice
her at all until I processed the picture. |
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Richmond, CA 9/13/14
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| A view from
the Rosie the Riveter museum. |
Ted with a
part of the exhibit. |
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Mt. Tamalpais Watershed, Marin County, CA
9/13/14
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| Flame Skimmer
(Libellula saturata) |
Western
Fence Lizard |
Wasp nest
(about a foot in diameter) |
Reservoir |
Another smaller lake |
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four-photo composite of another section, reduced to 4.06 MB. |
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Tennessee Valley-Golden Gate
National Recreation Area, Marin County, CA 9/12/14
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| Gray Hairstreak |
Radish (Raphanus genus) |
Mystery sparrow |
Another
mystery sparrow |
Legume flowers |
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| Seed bug
(Xanthochilus saturnius) |
Common Ringlet |
Another
Common Ringlet |
Ladybug
beetle, landed on Karl's shirt |
Western
Scrub Jay |
Larkspur, Marin County, CA
9/12/14
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| Maybe an
immature Anna's Hummingbird, on Japanese Honeysuckle |
The same hummingbird |
Snowy Egret |
Reflection
of the Larkspur ferry |
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San Francisco (Embarcadero St.), CA 9/11/14
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| A Cabbage
White trying to reach the flowers in an outdoor cafe, but
frustrated by the transparent (and reflective) barrier. This
suggests that butterflies are guided by their vision as well as
their sense of smell, if not more so. |
Sea lions fighting |
A Heerman's
Gull came close to check out a nearby man's beef sandwich. |
A cormorant |
A skimmer hovering |
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| Sea lion scratching |
Sea lions |
Alcatraz |
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Larkspur, Marin County, CA 9/11/14
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Black-crowned Night Heron |
Female blackbird? |
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| Greenbrae, as seen from the north side of the
Larkspur ferry area |
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Chicago, IL 9/10/14
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| Chicago aerial view |
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Durham, NC 9/9/14
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| Green Lynx Spider |
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North Carolina Botanical
Garden, Orange County, NC 9/8/14
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| Spider wasp? |
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Durham, NC 9/4/14
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| Saddleback Caterpillar
(Acharia stimulea) |
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Durham, NC 9/2/14
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| Jumping
spider (Phidippus genus) |
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Mason Farm Biological
Reserve, Orange County, NC 9/1/14
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| Argiope
aurantia spider in its web |
Bowl-and-doily spider |
Lots of dew drops on a leaf |
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| Red Admiral |
Paper wasp |
Nursery web
spider |
Man-of-the-earth or Wild Potato Vine (Ipomoea pandurata) |
Deserted spider web |
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