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Sandy Creek Park, Durham, NC
5/31/11
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| Dion Skipper on Purple Coneflower | Red-necked Cone Borers (Agrilus ruficollis): One female, two males, mating going on... | Moth Mullein | Female/immature Widow Skimmer |
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| Robber fly (Laphria divisor) |
4/8/11
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| American Lady | Wolf spider, which walked easily on the surface of this puddle over to land | Mallard family | Bumble flower beetle | Cuckoo bee (Nomada genus) |
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| Orange Sulphur on Common Dandelion (note separate flower parts) | Seven-spotted Ladybug Beetle, attempting to hide | Forget-me-nots | Canada Goose |
3/20/11
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| Green Six-spotted Beetle | Large Bee Fly on spring Beauty flower | Lesser Celandines | Mysterious bushes | Bee (Andrena genus) |
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| Tufted Titmouse | Rue Anemone | Boxelder Bug seeming to hide under what look like Sycamore seeds. Before, it scurried furiously, then somehow wound up in this position almost instantly. | Forget-Me-Nots |
1/30/11
This was an unusually warm day, with highs in the mid-60s. Dozens of adult Boxelder Bugs apparently overwintering inside the greenway sewer lines came out. Small spiders were all out and about.
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| Boxelder Bug, beside trail | Boxelder Bugs on top of manhole cover. One seems to be going inside. | View of the same Boxelder Bugs from above | Probably Purple Deadnettle growing in crack of manhole cover |
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| Giant Wolf Spider | Turtle | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
10/7/10
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| Chinese Mantis | Checkered skipper (dorsal view). They can look golden in the right light. | Checkered skipper (lateral view, ventral view of wings). | Gemmed Satyr |
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| Mating Pearl Crescents, which were doing a lot of flying | Thread-waisted wasp (Eremnophila aureonotata). A common wasp without a common name. | Spider wasp (Auplopus mellipes mellipes) looking for nest entrance in sewer manhole. | Spider wasp entering sewer manhole hole. | Argiope aurantia (big photo is oriented correctly!) |
3/30/10
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| Moss, with sporophytes. Seen near the lake. | Horsetail | Winged Elm flowers and fruit | Field Pansy (Viola bicolor) | Green Six-spotted Tiger Beetle |
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| Common Vetch | Common Wood-Sorrel | Common Blue Violets | Forget-me-nots (view from above) |
3/22/10
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| American Toads mating | Periwinkle | Mysterious tracks on the creek bed | Horsetails |
3/19/10
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| Green Six-spotted Tiger Beetle, actually with 10 spots | Plum flowers. This ID is disputed. | Wolf spider | Common Blue Violet |
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| Mating Boxelder Bugs, two of dozens, maybe hundreds, where the trail first came besides Sandy Creek. | Lesser Celandine (Ranunculus ficaria) |
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