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Woodland Salamanders (Genus Plethodon)Observer
tomandjillDescription
In moist, loose, soil in a depression beneath an outdoor container. Some of the eggs appear to be collapsed or hatched.
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Wood Stork (Mycteria americana)Observer
sherriequillenDescription
Immature, observed foraging in the creek earlier this month. Stayed in the area for just a few days.
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Southern Small Yellow Lady's-Slipper (Cypripedium parviflorum var. parviflorum)Observer
vultureDescription
(location intentionally obscured)
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Ragged Fringed Orchid (Platanthera lacera)Observer
ma9ru83rDescription
hybrid of psycodes and lacera?!
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Northern Bush Honeysuckle (Diervilla lonicera)Observer
nomolosxDescription
source of grey scaphoideus
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Small Spreading Pogonia (Cleistesiopsis bifaria)Observer
vultureDescription
(location intentionally obscured)
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Red-banded Hairstreak (Calycopis cecrops)Observer
billhaleyDescription
Small, red stripe up both forewing and hindwings. Small hindwings tails.
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Eastern Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus)Observer
annkatrinroseDescription
Skunk cabbage blooming at the Daniel Boone Native Gardens. They've had it on the bloom list on their website forever and I could never find it. Well, I finally did! It wasn't near the bog garden where I had searched for them.
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Poke Milkweed (Asclepias exaltata)Observer
milkweedguyDescription
sunnier site
with Asclepias syriaca
visited by Epargyreus clarus
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Variegated Fritillary (Euptoieta claudia)Observer
mellokDescription
hand reared chrysalis used for educational classes
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Diana Fritillary (Argynnis diana)Observer
bjones7777Description
This species is probably the most sexually dimorphic of all our butterflies. Males, shown above, are dark brown with bright orange margins. This butterfly is only found in the Cumberland Plateau and Blue Ridge Mountains in Tennessee and neighboring states and the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma.
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Diana Fritillary (Argynnis diana)Observer
bjones7777Description
The female Diana Fritillary is black with blue margins on the hindwings and white spotbands on the forewings. This coloration mimics the Pipevine Swallowtail that is distasteful to predators, and this species is just one of several that also mimic the Pipevine Swallowtail.
