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Common Hibiscus (Hibiscus syriacus)Observer
michaelmorris98Description
Hibiscus shrub that my family inherited for a great grandmother. The shrub is about 15 feet tall and has a fragrant smell all around it. The flowers each have five petals spreading in a pentagonal shape with a light pink color on the outside ring and a dark red circle on the inside ring.
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Carpenter Ants, Typical Sugar Ants and Allies (Genus Camponotus)Observer
michaelmorris98Description
I observed this ant while trying to catch bugs within my local park
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Butterflies and Moths (Order Lepidoptera)Observer
michaelmorris98Description
I observed this moth while trying to catch bugs in my local park. The moth is about a centimeter and a half long and about 3 mm.
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Genus HoplistoscelisObserver
michaelmorris98Description
I observed this bug while trying to catch bugs behind my local Best Buy. The bug is quite small being only about 6-7 mm longs and has a dark brown color all over its body.
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Genus MecaphesaObserver
michaelmorris98Description
I observed this small green spider while trying to collect bugs behind my local Best Buy. The spider is a little longer then 1 cm and about 5 mm wide.
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Tribe EliciniObserver
michaelmorris98Description
I observed this small green bug while trying to catch bugs behind my local Best Buy. This bug is quite small at 3 mm long and about 1 mm wide with an all green body and small wings.
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Planthoppers (Infraorder Fulgoromorpha)Observer
michaelmorris98Description
I observed this insect while trying to catch some bug behind my local Best Buy. The bug is about 4 mm long and 4 mm wide with a black body and light brown stripes.
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Slender Crab Spiders (Genus Tibellus)Observer
michaelmorris98Description
I observed this spider while trying to catch bugs behind my local Best Buy. This spider is thin and long and has a tan body with a black line running down the center of its entire body.
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Genus ThanatusObserver
michaelmorris98Description
I observed this spider while trying to catch bugs within a local park in my neighborhood. The spider is about half a cm wide and long and has a grey back with a black oval centered in the middle.
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Rice Stink Bug (Oebalus pugnax)Observer
michaelmorris98Description
I observed this stink bug while trying to catch bugs behind my local Best Buy. This stink bug has a sandy brown color on its abdomen and thorax with small wings.
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Genus ThyantaObserver
michaelmorris98Description
I observed this small brown beetle behind a local bestbuy. The beetle is about half a cm wide and half a cm long with several light brown stripes along its thorax.
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Red-shouldered Stink Bug (Thyanta custator)Observer
michaelmorris98Description
All green color body and about 1 cm long with a flat body and 6 legs.
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Butterflies and Moths (Order Lepidoptera)Observer
michaelmorris98Description
I caught this moth while walking around my local park. The moth is about 1.5 cm long and has grey, delicate wins
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Damselflies (Suborder Zygoptera)Observer
michaelmorris98Description
I catch this damselfly while hiking along a trail with some friends. It has a brown body with several black stripes along the thorax. It's tail is about 3 cm long and is black with a brown underside.
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Spotted Cucumber Beetle (Diabrotica undecimpunctata)Observer
michaelmorris98Description
I observed this small beetle while trying to catch some bugs behind my local Best Buy. The beetle is a yellow/greenish color with twelve black dots on its back.
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Black Blister Beetle (Epicauta pensylvanica)Observer
michaelmorris98Description
I observed this beetle while trying to catch some bugs behind my local Best Buy. The beetle is a matte black color.
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Harp Ground Beetles (Subfamily Harpalinae)Observer
michaelmorris98Description
I observed this beetle while trying to catch bugs behind my local Best Buy. The beetle is all black with line running lengthwise down the thorax.
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Jewel Bugs (Family Scutelleridae)Observer
michaelmorris98Description
I found this beetle while trying to catch some bugs behind my local Best Buy. This beetle had a very unique coloring on the back, a combination of light oranges and greens on top of brown and tan blotches. There are also many small black dots covering it's back.
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Geometer Moths (Family Geometridae)Observer
michaelmorris98Description
I observed this moth that I caught when trying to catch bugs behind my local Best Buy. This was the only moth I caught out there. It has a grey spotted color all over its body
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Eastern Leaf-footed Bug (Leptoglossus phyllopus)Observer
michaelmorris98Description
I observed this bug while collective bug samples behind my local Best Buy. I only found two of them in that area. The bug had a dark red color on its limbs and dark brown color on its body.
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Tribe MelanopliniObserver
michaelmorris98Description
I observed this grasshopper While collective bug samples behind the bestbuy in beecave. This species of grasshopper was abundant in that tall grass back there.
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Ground Crab Spiders (Genus Xysticus)Observer
michaelmorris98Description
I observed this spider when collective bugs behind the beecave bestbuy. I found this species in an abundance in the tall grass out there. It was about 5-6 long and has a tan/amberish color all over its body with no other colors.
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Common Morning-Glory (Ipomoea purpurea)Observer
michaelmorris98Description
I observed this vine while walking within my local green belt. It had attached itself to an Ashe juniper tree and had grown about 20 feet into the air. It had large leaves, about 6 inches in length and 3-4 inches in width, with a concave section at the top where the stem is attached.
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Twisted-leaf Yucca (Yucca rupicola)Observer
michaelmorris98Description
I observed this yucca plant while walking through my local green belt. The yucca wasn't very big, having grown to only about a foot and half tall.
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Oaks (Genus Quercus)Observer
michaelmorris98Description
I observed this small plant while walking down a trail within my local green belt. The plant appeared to be quite young, sprouting straight up with sever branches growing outward, nearly horizontally. The leaves were oval shaped and small with a slightly thick cuticle. It has a woody stem as well.
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Ashe Juniper (Juniperus ashei)Observer
michaelmorris98Description
I observed this juniper while walking down a local trail within my local green belt. It was about 25 - 30 feet tall with most of its leaves near the ends of its branches.
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michaelmorris98Description
I observed this oak while walking down a local trail today. I was bent quite an angle to capture sunlight. It's leaves had a slight waxy cuticle and we're situated around the ends of every branch.
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Common Hoptree (Ptelea trifoliata)Observer
michaelmorris98Description
I observed this plant along the side of the trail I was walking down. The plant was about 4 feet tall and was bent towards the sunlight. It had leaves with a slightly waxy cuticle.
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Dicots (Class Magnoliopsida)Observer
michaelmorris98Description
I observed this small oak along the side of a trail I was walking down. It had grown only about 7 feet into the air and had soft leaves.
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Legumes (Family Fabaceae)Observer
michaelmorris98Description
I observed this plant while walking along a trail in my local green belt. The plant hadn't grown very far from the ground yet, only about a foot, and had a very eye catching orientation of its leaves.
