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Texas: Monarch butterfly: Danaus plexippus: 1995 [54] Utah: European honey bee: Apis mellifera: 1983 [55] Vermont: European honey bee (state insect) Apis mellifera: 1978 [56] Monarch butterfly (state butterfly) Danaus plexippus: 1987 [57] Virginia: Eastern tiger swallowtail: Papilio glaucus [58] Washington: Green darner dragonfly: Anax junius ...
Fireflies have featured in human culture around the world for centuries. [55] In Japan, the emergence of fireflies (Japanese: hotaru) signifies the anticipated changing of the seasons; [56] firefly viewing is a special aesthetic pleasure of midsummer, celebrated in parks that exist for that one purpose. [57]
The diverse geography of Texas, the second-largest state, hosts a variety of habitats for amphibians, including swamps and the Piney Woods in the east, rocky hills and limestone karst in the central Hill Country of the Edwards Plateau, desert in the south and west, mountains in the far west (the Trans-Pecos), and grassland prairie in the north ...
The fireflies of many eastern and midwestern U.S. childhoods “have survived everything we can throw at them,” said Tufts University biologist and firefly expert Sara Lewis.
Fireflies flourish in fields, forests and marshes -- but these areas are being torn down and replaced with shopping malls and parking lots. There are fewer and fewer places for them to thrive. 2.
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Pages in category "Lists of fauna of Texas" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
What do you call them: firefly or lightning bugs? It turns out they are the same insect! We explain the regional difference in how they are named in America.