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Adult Carpophilus are active in spring and summer. They can fly several kilometres in search of host fruit. [1]When this is discovered, the females lay eggs in fruit on the tree (in the case of stone fruit) or in fallen fruit on the ground (in the case of citrus, apples and figs). [1]
As a nymph and adult, Ixodes scapularis has eight legs, while larvae have six. [7] Unlike ticks from other genera, [8] deer ticks do not have eyes. [3] [8] The scutum is dark, inornate (plain), and, in unfed females, contrasts with the exposed orange or red remainder of the idiosoma. [3]
In 2000, Pittendrigh joined Purdue University as an assistant professor in the Department Entomology, becoming associate professor in 2004. [6] In 2008, he left Purdue University and joined University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was both a professor and held the C.W. Kearns, C.L. Metcalf and W.P. Flint Endowed Chair in Insect Toxicology.
The origin of the word "dobsonfly" is unclear. John Henry Comstock used the term in reference to these insects in his 1897 book Insect Life, [1] but did not explain it. He also mentioned that anglers used the word "hellgrammite" for the aquatic larvae they used as bait, but the origin of this term is also unknown.
The eggs are grey and cylindrical, about 1.4 millimetres long and 0.5 millimetres wide. They are laid in groups of about 1,000, stacked in three layers. The pile of eggs is protected by a clear fluid which dries white and is applied by the female with the tip of her abdomen.
In 2015 she began work as Outreach Coordinator for Purdue's Department of Entomology. [14] She is a freelance science writer whose work has featured in Wired , Mental Floss , Science Magazine , National Geographic and Nature .
The brown marmorated stink bug (Halyomorpha halys) is an insect in the family Pentatomidae, native to China, Japan, Korea, and other Asian regions. [2] In September 1998, it was collected in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where it is believed to have been accidentally introduced. [3]
The ovoid eggs are initially white when laid, but soon turn towards a shade of red and measure approximately 2 millimetres (3 ⁄ 32 in) long. [3] Though rarely seen due to their growth stages taking place within a single grain, larvae of the Angoumois grain moth are yellowish-white with a small yellowish-brown head [4] and 10–15 millimetres (3 ⁄ 8 – 9 ⁄ 16 in) in length.