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Insect: Pennsylvania firefly (Photuris pennsylvanica) December 5, 1988 [4] [16] Motto "Virtue, Liberty, and Independence" 1778 [17] Nickname "Keystone State" c. 1800 [17] Seal: Seal of Pennsylvania: 1791 [17] Ship: US Brig Niagara: April 29, 1988 [6] [18] Song "Pennsylvania" November 29, 1990 [19] [20] Steam locomotive: K4s 1361 and K4s 3750 ...
State insects are designated by 48 individual states of the fifty United States. Some states have more than one designated insect, or have multiple categories (e.g., state insect and state butterfly, etc.). Iowa and Michigan are the two states without a designated state insect.
Sporcle is a trivia and pub quiz website created by trivia enthusiast Matt Ramme. [1] First launched on April 23, 2007, the website allows users to play and make quizzes on a wide range of subjects, with the option of earning badges by completing challenges. Sporcle hosts over one million user-made quizzes that have been played over 5 billion ...
Many Pennsylvanians know these insects by the name "lightning bugs" and may have confused "firefly" with "black fly" when that state was plagued by them in 1988 [citation needed]. This might be why that year the legislature again confirmed the Pennsylvania firefly's official status and specified it by scientific name .
Following a reported heist of rare live insects in 2018, the insectarium was the subject of a four-part, video titled Bug Out that was released in 2022. [2] Following release of the Bug Out video in March 2022, a defamation lawsuit was filed in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, Cambridge, et al. v. Feldman, et al., C.C.P. Phila.
According to the site itself, BugGuide.net has been responsible for the identification of 11 new, previously undescribed species as of mid-2014. In addition, 12 species new to the Western Hemisphere were first identified via the site; another seven were new to North America; and numerous new country records (primarily the United States) and ...
This hormone happened to have a profound effect on P. apterus, but not on other insect species, showing the diversification of hormone receptors in the insects. [6] The most potent chemical component was later identified as juvabione , the methyl ester of todomatuic acid , which is produced by the trees in response to wounding; it mimics ...
Over 90% of these trees contain live insects. Although V. pensylvanica typically resides in ground nests, queens occasionally choose these trees as overwintering sites. One potential strategy to reduce the number of yellowjackets and other generalist predators is applying preharvest permethrin sprays in combination with mechanical tree-shaking.