Carolina Lake, Carolina Beach, New Hanover County, NC 9/28/17
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| White Ibis | Sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean | Snowy Egret standing barriers used in lake dredging process | Dogday cicada exuvia | Post-mating Common Green Darner pair |
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| Post-mating Common Green Darner pair | Male Common Green Darner in flight |
Carolina Beach State Park, New Hanover County, NC 9/28/17
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| Female Pileated Woodpecker, one of four of this species seen | One of the several ponds | Sand wasp? | Lone Virginia Spiderwort flower | Wharf Crab |
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| Brown-headed Nuthatch | Common Buckeye caterpillar, with exuvia still attached | Hovering Common Green Darner | Horse fly |
Carolina Beach, New Hanover County, NC 9/27/17
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| Gulf Fritillary | Another Gulf Fritillary | Long-tailed Skipper | Another Long-tailed Skipper | Yet another Long-tailed Skipper |
Fort Fisher State Recreation Area, New Hanover County, NC 9/27/17
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| Queen | Long-tailed Skipper | Monarch | Gulf Fritillary | Pink Muhly Grass |
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| Wandering Glider | Spot-winged Glider | Wandering Glider, one of about seven | Another Wandering Glider in the same group | Saddlebags |
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| Black-throated Blue Warbler (migrating) | Same Black-throated Blue Warbler | Same Black-throated Blue Warbler | Female Painted Bunting, a summer resident. ID thanks to Harry LeGrand. | Same female Painted Bunting |
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| Tricolored Heron | Mating stick insects (Anisomorpha ferruginea) | Bee fly | Fowler's Toad | Male Common Green Darner |
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| Carolina Anole |
Carolina Lake, Carolina Beach, New Hanover County, NC 9/26/17
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| Snowy Egret "dancing" | Same Snowy Egret |
Carolina Beach State Park, New Hanover County, NC 9/26/17
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| Bee fly (Poecilognathus punctipennis) on a Purple False Foxglove flower (Agalinis purpurea). Wildflowers were sparse in the sandy sections of the park, and this species was most conspicuous. | Red-bellied Woodpecker | Same Red-bellied Woodpecker | Female spider wasp (Psorthaspis sanguinea). Genus ID thanks to Ken Wolgemuth and species ID (as well as sex) to Bob Biagi. | Square-headed Wasp (Tachytes genus). ID thanks to John S. Ascher. |
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| Square-headed wasp (Tachytes genus). | Bee fly (Poecilognathus punctipennis) on a Purple False Foxglove flower. | Dogday cicada | Firewheel | Grasshopper |
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| Lily pond | Mourning Cloak | Pine Warbler |
Fort Fisher State Recreation Area, Kure Beach, New Hanover County, NC 9/26/17
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| First winter Herring Gull | Juvie Laughing Gull with remains of a large fish | Non-breeding Laughing Gull | Palm Warbler, near Visitor Center | Another Palm Warbler, near Visitor Center |
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| Male Sand Fiddler Crab | Another male Sand Fiddler Crab | Tern struggling against the wind | Wharf Crab, near the Visitor Center | Another Wharf Crab, near the Visitor Center |
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| Wharf Crab | Willet | Same Willet | Bee fly | Tiny insect |
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| Crow | Dune Bluecurls (Trichostema nesophilum) | Fiddler crabs |
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| Fiddler crabs | Male Boat-tailed Grackle | Another male boat-tailed Grackle working the fish remains | Great Egret |
Fort Fisher State Recreation Area (Basin Trail), Kure Beach, New Hanover County, NC 9/25/17
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| Carolina Anole, sort of displaying | Ant with a big head | Mating Common Buckeyes | Acorn and Carrion Beetle | Firewheel |
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| Gulf Fritillary and asters | Gulf Fritillary on vine | Mystery object with interested insects, such as small flies. A Carrion Beetle was there and shown in a separate photo. | Long-tailed Skipper | Male Eastern Pondhawk |
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| Small robber fly | Another small robber fly | Sabatia stellaris | Another Sabatia stellaris | Salt Marsh Skipper on aster |
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| Clouded Skipper | White Ibises |
Carolina Lake, Carolina Beach, New Hanover County, NC 9/25/17
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| Snowy Egret | Same Snowy Egret, in flight | Snowy Egret crouching | Great Egret taking off | Four-spotted Pennant |
Carolina Beach, New Hanover County, NC 9/25/17
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| Willet | Same Willet in foamy water | Same Willet | Same Willet | Ruddy Turnstone w/ prey |
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| Sanderling | Wild Poinsettia or Fire on the Mountain (Euphorbia cyathophorbia) |
Piney Woods Park, Durham, NC 9/23/17
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| Ambush bug (front view) | American Lady | Ants and aphids | Bee |
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| Mystery bug nymph, probably in the Orsillinae subfamily, based on nearby adults | Seed bug (Xyonysius californicus), Orsillinae subfamily. ID thanks to Vassily Belov. | Mystery bug nymph, probably in the Orsillinae subfamily, based on nearby adults | Fly | Gall |
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| Meadow Beauty | Plane overhead | Spined Micrathena | Tachina Fly | Same Tachina Fly |
North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, NC 9/21/17
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| Green Lynx Spider | Painted Lady | Another Painted Lady | Same Painted Lady | Same Painted Lady |
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| Robber fly | Same robber fly | Skipper | Tiny spider | Head of large turtle |
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| Carolina Anole | Same Carolina Anole | Seed bug? | Coral Honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens) |
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| Flower fly (Toxomerus genus) | Froghopper (Clastoptera genus). ID thanks to Ken Wolgemuth. | Same froghopper | Funnel-web spider, which has attached its web to part of an American Beautyberry, i.e., some fruits | Female American Goldfinch |
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| American Goldfinch, partially hidden | Same American Goldfinch |
Durham, NC 9/18/17
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| Northern Cricket Frog | Green Treefrog | Leaffooted bugs mating | Moth | Potter Wasp |
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| Rose | Two-lined Froghopper |
Durham, NC 9/17/17
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| Appalachian Brown | Caterpillar | Cockroach | Crab spider | Tiny jumping spider "dancing" |
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| Tiny black jumping spider | Spotted Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis) flower |
American Tobacco Trail, NC 9/16/17
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| Kudzu (Pueraria montana) bloom | More Kudzu blooms | Monarch | Paraguayan Purslane | Red-spotted Purple |
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| Cloudless Sulphur |
Durham, NC 9/15/17
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| Sycamore Seed Bug | Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle pair. The male shifted around quite a bit. | Same pair | More shifting | Tiny orb weaver spinning a web |
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| Braconid wasp | Damselfly | Leaffooted Bug on smartweed | Pennsylvania Leatherwing Beetles mating on Pennsylvania Smartweed (Polygonum pensylvanicum) | Leopard Slug |
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| Nursery web spider |
Durham, NC 9/12/17
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| Gray Squirrel with Black Walnut | Same squirrel showing wound | Green Treefrog at pond | Another Green Treefrog at the pond | Another Green Treefrog at a nearby building |
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| Moth victim of fungi | Local pond with litter | Female Common Scorpion Fly | Same female Common Scorpion Fly | White Morning Glory (Ipomoea lacunosa) |
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| Mating bugs (probably plant bugs) | Molting male Eastern Towhee |
Durham, NC 9/10/17
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| Goldenrod Stowaway Moth, an owlet moth (Cirrhophanus triangulifer) on smartweed. ID thanks to John and Jane Balaban. | Potter Wasp | Red-spotted Purple | Wasp (Scolia nobilitata) | Woolly aphid |
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| Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle | Crab spider | Ailanthus Webworm Moth |
North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, Orange County, NC 9/7/17
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| Juvie Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Same juvie Ruby-throated Hummingbird, at Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis) | Same juvie Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Same juvie Ruby-throated Hummingbird |
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| Same juvie Ruby-throated Hummingbird, in tree | Jack-in-the-pulpit berries | Orb weaver web | Bee | Clouded Skipper |
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| Crab spider | Flea beetles, with leaf damage | Male American Goldfinch | Same male American Goldfinch |
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| Same male American Goldfinch | Same male American Goldfinch | Same male American Goldfinch | Same male American Goldfinch | Same male American Goldfinch |
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| Same male American Goldfinch | Green Lynx Spider on goldenrod (Solidago genus) | Hummingbird Clearwing Moth |
Durham, NC 9/5/17
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| Appalachian Brown | Bowl-and-doily Spider | Fowler's Toad | Jumping spider (Phidippus genus) | Same spider |
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| Orb weaver web | Weevil on aster |
Durham, NC 9/3/17
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| Plant bug (Neurocolpus genus) | Red-banded Hairstreak | Moth | Orb weaver with prey | Same orb weaver |
Durham, NC 9/2/17
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| Stink bug nymph | Long-jawed orb weaver, oddly, on the edge of a Bowl-and-doily Spider web | Jumping spider (Hentzia palmarum) | Eastern Phoebe |