Cabbage White Butterfly (Pieris rapae)
Accidentally introduced in 1860, the Cabbage White butterfly is now the most widely distributed butterfly species in North America….
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Accidentally introduced in 1860, the Cabbage White butterfly is now the most widely distributed butterfly species in North America….
Mother Nature really surprises me sometimes. After nearly two decades of wandering around the state of North Carolina observing,…
As you might guess from this butterfly’s common name “Common Buckeye”, Junonia coenia is an easy butterfly to find…
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I encountered this little guy while on an early morning walk. The sun was just peeking over the trees,…
Blister beetles are a particular group of insects that share the ability to secrete a noxious substance called “cantharidin”…
Wheel bugs are one of the most distinctive insects in North Carolina; they are easily identifiable by a pronounced…
Common names for animals can sometimes lead you astray by implying that certain animals have certain traits or abilities….
In the eat-and-be-eaten natural world, every animal is food for something else, and dragonflies are no exception. Despite being…