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Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania firefly: Photuris pennsylvanica: 1974 [48] Rhode Island: American burying beetle: Nicrophorus americanus: 2015 [49] South Carolina: Carolina mantis (state insect) Stagmomantis carolina: 1988 [50] Eastern tiger swallowtail (state butterfly) Papilio glaucus: 1994 [51] South Dakota: European honey bee: Apis mellifera ...
List of state symbols. Flag of Pennsylvania. Seal of Pennsylvania. Emblem of Pennsylvania. Coat of arms of Pennsylvania. Living insignia. Amphibian. Eastern Hellbender. Bird.
P. pennsylvanica. Binomial name. Phymata pennsylvanica. Handlirsch, 1897. Phymata pennsylvanica, known generally as the Pennsylvania ambush bug or Pennsylvania jagged ambush bug, is a species of ambush bug in the family Reduviidae. It is found in North America. [1][2][3] It is known to prey on a common hoverfly, Syritta pipiens. [4]
The following is a list of the 67 counties of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The city of Philadelphia is coterminous with Philadelphia County, the municipalities having been consolidated in 1854, and all remaining county government functions having been merged into the city after a 1951 referendum. [1][2] Eight of the ten most populous ...
Map of the United States with Pennsylvania highlighted. There are 56 municipalities classified as cities in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. [1] Each city is further classified based on population, with Philadelphia being of the first class, Pittsburgh of the second class, Scranton of the second class A, and the remaining 53 cities being of the third class.
Pennsylvania Wilds (in green) on the map of Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Wilds, or the Pennsylvania Wilds Conservation Landscape, is a predominantly rural and forested region in northern central Pennsylvania, mostly within the Allegheny Plateau. It covers about a quarter of the state's territory, but is home to only 4% of its population.
The firebug, Pyrrhocoris apterus, is a common insect of the family Pyrrhocoridae. Easily recognizable due to its striking red and black coloration, it may be confused with the similarly coloured though unrelated Corizus hyoscyami (cinnamon bug or squash bug). [ a ][ 1 ]Pyrrhocoris apterus is distributed throughout the Palaearctic from the ...
Bucks County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 646,538, [ 2 ] making it the fourth-most populous county in Pennsylvania. Its county seat is Doylestown. [ 3 ] The county is named after the English county of Buckinghamshire. The county is part of the Southeast Pennsylvania region of the state.