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0 0 American Robin

American Robin

by Anthony8Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

Backyard

0 4 Ailanthus webworm

Ailanthus webworm

by nkhamakerHarleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

moth on climbing hydrangea plant

0 0 Net-winged Beetle

Net-winged Beetle

by thehamHarleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

Mating beetles?

0 0 Dog-day Cicada

Dog-day Cicada

by thehamHarleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

1 0 Woodchuck

Woodchuck

by Anthony8Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

This groundhog lives under our shed.

0 0 Northern Cardinal

Northern Cardinal

by Anthony8Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

Near a small stream in the woods.

1 0 Border Forsythia

Border Forsythia

by Anthony8Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

Border forsythia, originally from Japan.

1 0 Wild Tulip

Wild Tulip

by Anthony8Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

Wild tulips growing near the water.

0 1 Nightshade

Nightshade

by Anthony8Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

Purple flowers with yellow pistil. Viny.

0 2 Immature Wood Duck

Immature Wood Duck

by Anthony8Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

Not exactly sure what this species of duck is.

3 0 Song Sparrow

Song Sparrow

by Anthony8Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

The sparrow was singing next to a trail

1 0 Blue Jay

Blue Jay

by Anthony8Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

Blue jay in a tree

0 0 Downy Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

by Anthony8Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

Downy woodpecker foraging for bugs.

0 2 Chipping Sparrow

Chipping Sparrow

by Anthony8Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

Pretty sure these are chipping sparrows

1 0 Blue Jay

Blue Jay

by Anthony8Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

This bird was hiding in the bushes

0 0 Carolina Wren

Carolina Wren

by Anthony8Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

I identified this bird as a Carolina Wren because of the white eye stripe.

1 1 Leopard Slug

Leopard Slug

by thehamHarleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

Mating Ritual--check out the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL_DtYfm348

0 0 Song Sparrow

Song Sparrow

by Anthony8Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

The song sparrow has such a great voice!

0 0 Common Chickweed

Common Chickweed

by Anthony8Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

Common chickweed, a weed that starts flowering in late winter/early spring.

0 0 Red Maple flower

Red Maple flower

by Anthony8Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

This red maple in my backyard is flowering.

0 2 Common Groundsel

Common Groundsel

by Anthony8Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

Common groundsel.

1 0 Jewelweed

Jewelweed

by Anthony8Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

Very nice flowers. There was an ant in every flower I looked in.

1 0 Eastern Cicada Killer

Eastern Cicada Killer

by Anthony8Lower Salford Township, Pennsylvania, USA

These godzillaish bees are excavating tunnels in my backyard!

0 0 Spotting

Spotting

by ConorSheaWingPennsylvania, USA

Black and white striped caterpillar with white hair and an orange head.

1 0 Spotting

Spotting

by ConorSheaWingPennsylvania, USA

Grey wings and black spots. Some kind of mosquito-hawk?

2 1 Eastern Gray Squirrel

Eastern Gray Squirrel

by Anthony8Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

Caught red handed with a walnut

0 0 Red-bellied Woodpecker

Red-bellied Woodpecker

by Anthony8Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

I am pretty sure this is a red-bellied woodpecker

0 0 Bluntnose Minnow

Bluntnose Minnow

by Anthony8Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

Some species of minnow with a black stripe on the side. I am pretty sure they ...

0 0 American Bullfrog

American Bullfrog

by Anthony8Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

It was sitting on the bank of a small pond.

0 1 White-breasted Nuthatch

White-breasted Nuthatch

by Anthony8Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

The nuthatch, the only bird that can hold onto a tree trunk facing vertically ...

5 3 Imperial Moth (larval)

Imperial Moth (larval)

by thehamHarleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

I've found both the brown and green variants using pine as their host plant

1 0 European Starling

European Starling

by Anthony8Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

Starlings are cool looking birds. Too bad they're bad news for native birds.

0 2 Northern Mockingbird

Northern Mockingbird

by Anthony8Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

This mockingbird puffed itself up while I was taking its picture, trying to ...

0 0 Tufted Titmouse

Tufted Titmouse

by Anthony8Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

The tufted titmouse next a small stream.

0 0 Cooper's Hawk

Cooper's Hawk

by Anthony8Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

A Cooper's Hawk surveying the area from a dead tree.

5 5 Eastern Skunk Cabbage

Eastern Skunk Cabbage

by Anthony8Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

I didn't smell anything coming from them!

0 3 Pyractomena Firefly larvae

Pyractomena Firefly larvae

by Anthony8Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

These firefly larvae were on a maple tree. Their mouthparts were attached to ...

1 2 Siberian Squill

Siberian Squill

by Anthony8Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

Beautiful purple wildflowers native to western Russia.

1 0 Walnut Caterpillar

Walnut Caterpillar

by ConorSheaWingPennsylvania, USA

Black caterpillar with a small amount of white hair.

0 1 Pelecinid Wasp

Pelecinid Wasp

by ConorSheaWingPennsylvania, USA

Black wasp with long antennas and an even longer scorpion-like abdomen.

0 0 White Bass

White Bass

by ConorSheaWingPennsylvania, USA

Silver fish with 'spiny' fins.

1 0 Notch-wing

Notch-wing

by ConorSheaWingPennsylvania, USA

Orange moth with dark-orange wing tips.

0 1 Spotting

Spotting

by ConorSheaWingPennsylvania, USA

Olive-green back and yellow breast, a black stripe is right under the eye.

1 0 White-throated Sparrow

White-throated Sparrow

by Anthony8Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

White-throated sparrow perched in a bush next to a stream.

2 2 Red-tailed Hawk

Red-tailed Hawk

by Anthony8Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

I was walking through the woods and didn't even realize this hawk was on the ...

0 1 Common Bedstraw

Common Bedstraw

by Anthony8Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

This weed grows along the ground and over other plants. The hair on the leaves ...

1 2 Common Dandelion

Common Dandelion

by Anthony8Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

The common dandelion, an early spring/late winter bloomer although it blooms ...

0 0 Red Deadnettle

Red Deadnettle

by Anthony8Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

Red deadnettle, one of the first plants to flower in the spring. The flowers ...

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