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Round-tipped Conehead (Neoconocephalus retusus)Observer
cafDescription
flew onto my car mirror
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Brown Watersnake (Nerodia taxispilota)Observer
cafDescription
Sunning itself in the warm rip rap rock along the edge of the water
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Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus)Observer
cafDescription
Accidently knocked this caterpillar off the side of my house. I thought they were green but found out when they are through feeding and wander off looking for a place to pupate they can turn brown as is the case here.
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Genus PisolithusObserver
cafDescription
Hard brown fungus about 5" tall & cap 2.5" across ground in clay soil & under pine tree
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Gold-marked Thread-waisted Wasp (Eremnophila aureonotata)Observer
cafDescription
All black thread-waisted wasp with silver marks on head & abdomen on mountain mint flower
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Heptagonal Orbweaver (Gea heptagon)Observer
cafDescription
Tiny 7mm Orb weaver spider, bright yellow abdomen with brown arrowhead mark and 2 yellow spines on top, smooth not hairy abdomen, light & dark brown striped legs, sitting in web made on a lantana plant
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Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (Halyomorpha halys)Observer
cafDescription
4th instar
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Leafcutter, Mortar, and Resin Bees (Genus Megachile)Observer
cafDescription
On Mountain mint flower
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Striped Greenhouse Slug (Ambigolimax valentianus)Observer
cafDescription
Banded slug
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Grey Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis)Observer
cafDescription
Don't usually see these but its been so dry they came out for a bath, the upper bird bath had more water & the other Catbird waited patiently in the ground level bath till the other finished
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Orchard Orbweaver (Leucauge venusta)Observer
cafDescription
1.2mm body, silver & black mottled abdomen with yellow slash across the bottom of the abdomen, upside down making a horizontal web in Duetzia bush
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Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda)Observer
cafDescription
In full flower and dropping flowers, 60 year old tree, 90 feet
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Eastern Towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus)Observer
cafDescription
Loves kicking around in the leaves
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Forkmosses (Genus Dicranum)Observer
cafDescription
Spreading spores in wind now, clay soil
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Asian Lady Beetle (Harmonia axyridis)Observer
cafDescription
Eggs & adult on Witch hazel
