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Five female eastern cicada killers, Sphecius speciosus Adult eastern cicada wasps are large, 1.5 to 5.0 cm (0.6 to 2.0 in) long, robust wasps with hairy, reddish, and black areas on their thoraces (middle parts), and black to reddish brown abdominal (rear) segments that are marked with light yellow stripes.
After mating, the female of most species digs a hole with her ovipositor and lays a batch of eggs in a pod in the ground near food plants, generally in the summer. After laying the eggs, she covers the hole with soil and litter. [16] Some, like the semi-aquatic Cornops aquaticum, deposit the pod directly into plant tissue. [43]
Mole crickets are members of the insect family Gryllotalpidae, in the order Orthoptera (grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets). Mole crickets are cylindrical-bodied, fossorial insects about 3–5 cm (1.2–2.0 in) long as adults, with small eyes and shovel-like fore limbs highly developed for burrowing.
Sporobolus fertilis is a species of grass native to the Himalayas, India, Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, China, Japan, and Malaysia.It is an invasive species in Australia, where it is known as giant parramatta grass.
Giant rat's tail grass or giant rats tail grass refers to two species of Sporobolus grasses. Sporobolus pyramidalis P.Beauv. Sporobolus natalensis (Steud.) T.Durand ...
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It hides in holes in the ground, in crevices and under rocks. The females lay several small clutches of eggs each year, each containing three to six eggs. [ 6 ] In a study in the southern Western Ghats , Eutropis macularia was the most frequently encountered reptile in the plantations, orchards and gardens where the study was conducted, being ...
The raw witchetty grub tastes similar to almonds; [7] however, when cooked, the skin becomes crisp like roast chicken, while the inside becomes light yellow, like a fried egg, and the taste has been anecdotally described variously as like scrambled egg, chicken, or a "prawn with peanut sauce". [3] [8] [9] [10] These grubs live in trees.