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Meretseger– The cobra-headed Egyptian Goddess. Sirin– Half-bird, half-human creature with the head and chest of a woman from Russian folklore; its bird half is generally that of an owl's body. Sobek– The crocodile-headed Egyptian God. Thoth– The ibis-headed Egyptian God.
The word insect comes from the Latin word insectum from in, "cut up", [1] as insects appear to be cut into three parts. The Latin word was introduced by Pliny the Elder who calqued the Ancient Greek word ἔντομον éntomon "insect" (as in entomology ) from ἔντομος éntomos "cut in pieces"; [ 2 ] this was Aristotle 's term for this ...
Camptogramma. Species: C. bilineata. Binomial name. Camptogramma bilineata. ( Linnaeus, 1758) Camptogramma bilineata, the yellow shell, is a colourful moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It can be found in Europe and east across the Palearctic to the Altai ...
Pupa of the rose chafer beetle, Cetonia aurata. Tumbler (pupa) of a mosquito. Unlike most pupae, tumblers can swim around actively. A pupa (from Latin pupa 'doll'; pl.: pupae) is the life stage of some insects undergoing transformation between immature and mature stages. Insects that go through a pupal stage are holometabolous: they go through ...
Leucoma salicis. Leucoma salicis, the white satin moth or satin moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is found in Europe including the British Isles but not the far north. In the east it is found across the Palearctic to Japan.
Basic moth identification features. While the butterflies form a monophyletic group, the moths, comprising the rest of the Lepidoptera, do not. Many attempts have been made to group the superfamilies of the Lepidoptera into natural groups, most of which fail because one of the two groups is not monophyletic: Microlepidoptera and Macrolepidoptera, Heterocera and Rhopalocera, Jugatae and ...
Pielus atripalpis Walker, 1856. Trictena argentata. Trictena atripalpis. On a man's hand. Abantiades atripalpis, also known as bardee ( bardy, bardi) grub, rain moth or waikerie, and previously known as Trictena atripalpis, [ 1] is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is found in the whole southern half of Australia .
Empty your entire pantry and use a vacuum attachment to remove any dust and webbing. Then, use a disinfecting cleaner, bleach solution, or soap and hot water to clean the pantry, making sure you ...