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Photuris pensylvanica, known by the common names Pennsylvania firefly, lightning bug, [3] dot-dash firefly[4] and (in its larval state) glowworm, [5] is a species of firefly from the United States and Canada. [3][5] It is also widely known under the Latin name Photuris pennsylvanica, although the original spelling, [2] with one "n", was common ...
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]
This is a list of towns and boroughs in Pennsylvania. There are currently 956 municipalities classified as boroughs and one classified as a town in Pennsylvania. Unlike other forms of municipalities in Pennsylvania, boroughs and towns are not classified according to population. Boroughs designated in the table below with a dagger (†) are home ...
Agelenopsis pennsylvanica. Agelenopsis pennsylvanica, commonly known as the Pennsylvania funnel-web spider or the Pennsylvania grass spider, is a species of spider in the family Agelenidae. The common name comes from the place that it was described, Pennsylvania, and the funnel shape of its web. [1][2] Its closest relative is Agelenopsis ...
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 ...
Binomial name. Monochamus scutellatus. (Say, 1824) Subspecies. M. s. oregonensis. M. s. scutellatus. Monochamus scutellatus, commonly known as the white-spotted sawyer or spruce sawyer or spruce bug or a hair-eater, [1] is a common wood-boring beetle found throughout North America. [2] It is a species native to North America.
Trombiculidae (/ trɒmbɪˈkjuːlɪdiː /), commonly referred to in North America as chiggers and in Britain as harvest mites, but also known as berry bugs, bush-mites, red bugs or scrub-itch mites, are a family of mites. [3] Chiggers are often confused with jiggers – a type of flea. Several species of Trombiculidae in their larva stage bite ...
Infestation of highly destructive bugs spreading in Tri-Cities. ... There a 74-square-mile quarantine area has been established where yard debris, flowers, plants, topsoil and potted plants cannot ...