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Calosoma planicolle Calosoma senegalense Calosoma scrutator by Alejandro Santillana "Insects Unlocked" Project, University of Texas at Austin. Calosoma is a genus of large ground beetles that occur primarily throughout the Northern Hemisphere, and are referred to as caterpillar hunters or caterpillar searchers. Many of the 167 species are ...
Neobarrettia spinosa is a carnivorous insect. It stalks through the underbrush and consumes grasshoppers, other katydids, caterpillars, small frogs, lizards, and any other small animal it can overpower. It is a known predator of the endangered songbird, Vireo atricapilla. [2]
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.
Caterpillars (/ ˈ k æ t ər p ɪ l ər / KAT-ər-pil-ər) are the larval stage of members of the order Lepidoptera (the insect order comprising butterflies and moths). As with most common names, the application of the word is arbitrary, since the larvae of sawflies (suborder Symphyta) are commonly called caterpillars as well.
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The larvae hatch and are active in the spring. These insects are called fall cankerworms because the females emerge from the soil in November, mate and lay their eggs in clusters on hardwood trees. [2] There are some natural enemies of this species. Many birds eat the caterpillars. The ground beetle, Calosoma frigidum also
Calosoma scrutator, commonly known as the fiery searcher and caterpillar hunter, [1] is a species of ground beetle belonging to the genus Calosoma. This beetle can be as large as 35 millimetres (1.4 in) long, [ 2 ] and is hence among the largest of the ground beetles found in North America. [ 3 ]
The characteristic trait of the caterpillars is a sclerotised area encircling the base of seta SD1 on the mesothorax, while the adult females have – like the males of Pyralidae in general do – a frenulum consisting of a single bristle which in turn is composed of multiple acanthae.