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Freshly emerged Pipevine Swallowtail

Happy Fly Friday--Bee fly

Reared from the cohort of caterpillars photographed, starting with eggs, earlier in the summer....

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Uploaded on Aug 7, 2008

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Several of these were buzzing about in the sandy back yard of a Wilmington, North Carolina home. I...

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Uploaded on Aug 1, 2008

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Hophornbeam

Southern Emerald Moth

Hophornbeam, Ostrya virginiana , a small tree found scattered in mesic woods. It is...

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Uploaded on Jul 31, 2008

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Southern Emerald Moth, Synchlora frondaria , from this caterpillar or another identical one I...

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Uploaded on Jul 30, 2008

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Decorated Looper pupa

Happy Fly Friday--Mallota posticata

One of two pupa from caterpillars I collected and (one of which) I photographed. Length about 7 mm....

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Uploaded on Jul 30, 2008

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This syrphid was very active and flighty in a sunny patch on a woodland trail at the North Carolina...

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Uploaded on Jul 25, 2008  |  Map

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Thread-waisted wasp with prey

Thread-waisted Wasp with Satellite Fly

Female Thread-waisted Wasp, Eremnophila aureonotata , preparing to bury its larval food, a ...

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Uploaded on Jul 24, 2008

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Thread-waisted Wasp, Eremnophila aureonotata , buries its prey. A Satellite Fly (Sarcophagidae:...

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Uploaded on Jul 24, 2008

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Thread-waisted Wasp buries prey

Happy Fly Friday--Megaphorus minutus oviposition

Thread-waisted Wasp, Eremnophila aureonotata , buries its prey. PCCA20080628-3259A

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Uploaded on Jul 24, 2008

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Taken on a brutally hot morning in a sandy area of Carolina Beach State Park . I was dripping...

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Uploaded on Jul 18, 2008

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Happy Fly Friday--Megaphorus minutus oviposition

Happy Fly Friday--Megaphorus minutus

Taken on a brutally hot morning in a sandy area of Carolina Beach State Park . I was trying to...

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Uploaded on Jul 18, 2008

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There were lots of these up to all sorts of things in a sandy area of Carolina Beach State Park ....

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Uploaded on Jul 18, 2008

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Happy Fly Friday--Triorla interrupta

Synchlora species--shorn

One of our more common robbers, and fairly easy to identify, for a robber fly. Species...

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Uploaded on Jul 18, 2008

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I removed, carefully, as much of the camouflage as I could with tweezers. Eventually, the...

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Uploaded on Jul 14, 2008

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Synchlora species--in place

Find the insect!

I was trying to photograph an Ammophila wasp on some Mountain Mint, Pycnanthemum tenuifolium in...

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Uploaded on Jul 14, 2008

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Can you find the insect in this photo? Answer later... PCCA20080712-3641A

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Uploaded on Jul 14, 2008

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Distinguished Colomychus

Pipevine Swallowtail eggs

Found another one of these at my porch light. It seems I get one or two in May ( here ) and the same...

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Uploaded on Jul 14, 2008

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On Virginia Snakeroot, Aristolochia serpentaria . The eggs are just under one millimeter in...

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Uploaded on Jul 11, 2008

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