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During the Greek Archaic Era, the grasshopper was the symbol of the polis of Athens, [70] possibly because they were among the most common insects on the dry plains of Attica. [70] Native Athenians for a while wore golden grasshopper brooches to symbolise that they were of pure Athenian lineage with no foreign ancestors. [70]
State insect Binomial name Image Year Alabama: Monarch butterfly (state insect) Danaus plexippus: 1989 [1] Queen Honey bee (state agricultural insect) Apis mellifera: 2005 [2] Eastern tiger swallowtail (state butterfly and mascot) Papilio glaucus: 1989 [3] Alaska: Four-spotted skimmer dragonfly: Libellula quadrimaculata: 1995 [4] Arizona: Two ...
The house fly is found all over the world where humans live and so is the most widely distributed insect. [1] This is a list of common household pests – undesired animals that have a history of living, invading, causing damage, eating human foods, acting as disease vectors or causing other harms in human habitation.
Cicadas are insects found in North America, consisting of more than 3,000 species. They're between an inch and two inches long, with small bristle-like antennae and four clear wings, and some of ...
He has over 20 years of pest control experience, holds professional licenses in NY, NJ, PA, and MA, and has published papers on bed bugs and pest control methods. The 15 Best Mosquito Repellents ...
North American wheel bugs are most common in eastern Canada and the United States, and their range extends into Mexico and Guatemala. [2] [5] Among the five extant species of Arilus, [13] a western hemisphere genus, only A. cristatus is found in the United States.
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Dynastes tityus is known by a number of common names, including eastern Hercules beetle, elephant beetle and ox beetle. [1] It was first given a scientific name by Carl Linnaeus, in his 1763 work Centuria Insectorum, where it was called Scarabaeus tityus; when Linnaeus' genus Scarabaeus was divided into smaller genera, S. tityus was renamed Dynastes tityus.