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September 24, 2024
06:55 PM UTC
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August 30, 2024
02:09 PM UTC
Description
Showed up as I was fixing my car… put him back near a pond
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July 25, 2024
10:39 AM EDT
Description
My first Rosy Maple Moth find :D
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June 12, 2024
06:07 PM UTC
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May 27, 2024
07:21 PM UTC
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May 1, 2024
04:07 PM EDT
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April 27, 2024
09:02 AM EDT
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April 28, 2024
10:49 AM EDT
Description
Block party at my place. Magicicada species, mostly, if not exclusively:
Riley's 13-year Cicada - Magicicada tredecim (teneral)
Might be an M. tredecassini in there, I suppose.
Location: Durham NC (USA)
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April 28, 2024
02:18 AM UTC
Description
LIFER! literally no words, this has to be the rarest snake in the piedmont of North Carolina. Yep! This sighting was in the piedmont of NC! went herping with a buddy, hiked many long hours inside a huge marsh/swamp habitat, not a single snake. We reached the edge of an agricultural field with a nice slow water marsh, and we found this mudsnake at the surface of the water just chilling near the base of a half submerged fallen tree.
this is not what I expected to find at all, not only that but this snake was massive! 3+ feet. I would have never guessed to have found a mudsnake today and a true “lemon head”.
This snake proved to be the hardest to photograph I’ve ever encountered! They cannot sit still and any cover placed on them they will push until it is moved. I also noticed an unusual defense mechanism where this snake used its tails to move as if the tail was its head. Its head sat still while the tail “creeped” around the ground imitating a snake searching the ground/water. I’m not sure if they are known to do this, either way I am super happy with only one snake this week and it’s the rarest around here!
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April 25, 2024
06:28 PM EDT
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April 17, 2024
08:52 PM UTC
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March 15, 2024
12:41 PM EDT
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March 11, 2024
11:15 PM MDT
Description
FU12
2420-01-01
One individual
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May 21, 2023
05:50 PM EDT
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January 19, 2024
04:43 PM EST
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November 22, 2023
02:08 PM EST
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November 22, 2023
02:26 PM EST
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October 7, 2023
11:26 AM EDT
Description
Spotted at first on an upright plant, maybe an Aster, and then hiding in the grass at the edge of the mown path. Really thrilled to see such a gorgeous being!
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October 7, 2023
01:52 PM EDT
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October 6, 2023
05:09 PM EDT
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July 24, 2023
07:04 PM EDT
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August 27, 2023
11:22 PM UTC
Description
Very large ant, carpenter ant like. Stark bicolor coloring, possibly Camponotus chromaiodes? Only one seen, never seen others like it before.
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May 15, 2023
09:03 PM EDT
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May 3, 2023
06:26 PM EDT
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May 1, 2023
07:32 PM EDT
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April 19, 2023
06:06 PM EDT
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April 19, 2023
07:24 PM EDT
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June 24, 2021
05:50 PM UTC
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April 11, 2023
02:43 AM UTC
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July 4, 2022
07:09 PM UTC
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April 1, 2022
09:52 PM EDT
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September 25, 2019
06:31 PM EDT
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November 22, 2022
03:27 PM EST
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October 2, 2022
09:10 PM EDT
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September 25, 2022
01:46 PM EDT
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September 25, 2022
07:11 PM UTC
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September 8, 2022
05:10 PM UTC
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June 22, 2020
02:59 PM EDT
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July 11, 2022
07:52 AM EDT
Description
Male? Never noticed one with a white marking.
@juan_sphex
@raycama
Do you guys know if it’s a territorial behavior when two of these will zoom through the air? In the same manner as male X. virginica? Or is that always two females having a dispute over foraging on Asclepias? Or a mating/courtship ritual? It’s a constant and reliable behavior about which I’ve always been curious. Thanks:)
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July 4, 2022
09:39 AM EDT
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June 25, 2022
07:30 PM UTC
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June 24, 2022
12:35 AM EDT
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May 2, 2022
06:42 PM EDT
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May 26, 2022
05:56 PM EDT
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April 22, 2022
08:11 AM EDT
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April 15, 2022
10:31 AM EDT
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April 6, 2022
10:04 AM HST
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April 6, 2022
10:01 AM HST
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March 25, 2022
12:47 PM UTC
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March 19, 2022
08:04 PM EDT
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March 5, 2022
04:19 PM EST
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February 27, 2022
08:10 PM UTC
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February 27, 2022
09:50 PM UTC
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April 14, 2021
01:56 PM EDT
What
Fan Moss
(Forsstroemia trichomitria)
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February 8, 2022
07:14 PM EST
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June 14, 2021
08:52 PM EDT
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January 28, 2022
06:39 AM EST
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January 30, 2022
05:40 PM HST
Description
One of the best parts of my job!!!
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October 1, 2021
01:35 AM HST
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September 30, 2021
09:53 PM EDT
Description
Lake Crabtree County Park/Lake Crabtree perimeter
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August 7, 2020
10:25 PM EDT
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September 17, 2021
03:57 PM EDT
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June 22, 2020
08:02 PM UTC
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September 7, 2021
01:23 PM EDT
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August 14, 2021
01:45 PM EDT
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July 13, 2021
02:35 PM EDT
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July 8, 2021
11:53 AM EDT
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October 31, 2020
11:40 PM EDT
Description
On Sourwood (Oxydendrum arboreum)??
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June 26, 2021
11:54 PM EDT
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June 6, 2021
08:57 PM EDT
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June 14, 2021
11:17 AM EDT
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June 14, 2021
08:58 PM EDT
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June 15, 2021
05:52 AM EDT
Description
Roadside. Blooming early.
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June 25, 2021
03:06 PM EDT
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June 21, 2021
11:37 PM UTC
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June 22, 2021
11:29 PM EDT
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May 6, 2021
11:02 PM EDT
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May 6, 2021
09:53 PM EDT
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May 6, 2021
09:53 PM EDT
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May 3, 2021
11:01 PM EDT
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May 3, 2021
11:41 PM MDT
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May 3, 2021
06:53 PM UTC
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January 26, 2020
01:50 PM UTC
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April 19, 2021
12:58 AM UTC
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July 13, 2018
08:41 PM EDT
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May 29, 2020
08:25 PM UTC
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March 26, 2020
11:47 PM EDT
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February 17, 2020
08:39 AM CST
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February 23, 2020
06:06 PM EST
Description
In small tributary feeding into my backyard stream downstream of my house. Observed 3 working a gravel nest. First observation in this tributary.
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January 2, 2020
11:10 AM UTC
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January 1, 2020
01:48 PM UTC
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September 29, 2019
09:49 PM EDT
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May 25, 2019
02:47 PM HST
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March 25, 2019
11:13 PM EDT
Description
I found this small (~9mm length) velvet ant running down a road in a suburban neighborhood and captured it for some shots. It was identified by an expert on BugGuide as Timulla vagans:
bugguide.net/node/view/68201
Detailed images of this individual posted at:
bugguide.net/node/view/678260
So-called velvet ants (Mutillidae) are actually wasps. The males have wings and broadly resemble other wasps. The females are flightless and often rather hairy. They are parasitoids of other hymenoptera (sometimes other insects) and the females are seen racing around, apparently in search of hosts. Large species have a nasty sting, but I do not know about these. Members of this genus are reported to form a Mullerian mimicry complex:
doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.06.053
What
Kudzu
(Pueraria montana)
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December 9, 2018
03:10 PM HST