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		<title>A Broken Camera</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A broken camera, is a sad sad thing.
  
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		<title>Fennel Flowers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Foeniculum vulgare
Last summer was my first time trying to grow Fennel. It wasn&#8217;t a huge success as I had to transplant it and it was in a part of my yard that was hot, red clay. But, she did well enough to get a couple good late season flower photos.

Cultivating Fennel
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		<title>Wolf Spider Motherhood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Carolina Wolf Spider
Hogna carolinensis
The Carolina Wolf Spider is one of the largest species of wolf spiders in North America. But enough about this lady herself, this post is all about the miracle of motherhood and wolf spiders do it somethin&#8217; special.

So, first off &#8211; wolf spiders don&#8217;t create a nice cozy web home. They are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yellow Millipede</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apheloria virginiensis
So, I&#8217;ve been neglecting this blog for a bit. Here&#8217;s the thing, when it&#8217;s warm I&#8217;m outside finding neat critters. I&#8217;ll do more to post all my summer photos during the colder months when I&#8217;m stuck inside. So, with winter around the corner I thought I&#8217;d get back into posting-mode.

North American Millipede
And she was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goatsbeard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tragopogon pratensis
Hooray for weeds! This little yellow one was growing around Pilot Mountain in North Carolina where we go to rock climb. This flower is known as the Flower of Goatsbeard or Meadow Salsify.

The Goatsbeard is native to Europe but is now well established across North America. After the flower blooms it results in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stink Bug Nymphs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[nymphal stink bugs (family Pentatomidae)
These lovelies are from last spring. They&#8217;ve been sitting in my box and for the life of me I cannot identify the exact species of nymph bugs they are. None of the nymph identification guides I have found have matched the markings perfectly. So &#8211; they are unidentified stink bug nymphs, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Little White Bells</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pieris japonica of the Ericacaea family
These flowers live at the Raulston Arboretum in Raleigh, NC in the partial shade garden. They weren&#8217;t overly showy, but incredibly pleasant shrubs that bloom so thick with tiny little white bells that smell just slightly sweet.

A Picky Plant Indeed
These flowers require fairly specific growing conditions like well-drained moist soil, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honey Bee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apis mellifera
The name, from Latin, means &#8220;honey carrying&#8221; and refers to the ball of pollen they carry on their legs (seen in the top photo). This one was buzzing about a plum tree bloom at the Raulston Arboretum in Raleigh, NC.

The Social Life of Honey Bees
Honey bees are incredibly cooperative in a large colony structure, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Candytuft</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Iberis sempervirens
Hooray for bilateral symmetry! Makes for super lovely flowers. This one is from the Raulston Arboretum, Raleigh, NC.
I didn&#8217;t have much to say about this nice little flower. It&#8217;s an evergreen shrub and does well with not too much water when established, making it especially appropriate for rock gardens. The flowers bloom in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blue Flossflower</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ageratum houstonianum or Ageratum mexicanum
This flower is also commonly known as Bluemink. 
This one was found on the fringes of an out building at the Raulston Arboretum. Looked like a lovely weed at the time. The corymb that is in focus in the picture above shows the flower cluster with florets that once blooming will have thin, [...]]]></description>
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