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The common walkingstick or northern walkingstick (Diapheromera femorata) is a species of phasmid or stick insect found across North America. The average length of this species is 75mm (3 in) for males and 95mm (3.7 in) for females. The insect is found in deciduous forest throughout North America, where it eats
Bugs in March in North Carolina Midges. A midge is a small, delicate and often fragile flying insect that belongs to the order diptera, which is a family of insects commonly referred to as true flies.
Painting of Stick Insects by Marianne North, 1870s. Stick insects are often kept in captivity: almost 300 species have been reared in laboratories or as pets. [59] The most commonly kept is the Indian (or laboratory) stick insect, Carausius morosus, which eats vegetables such as lettuce. [60]
North Carolina is the most ecologically unique state in the southeast because its borders contain sub-tropical, temperate, and boreal habitats. Although the state is at temperate latitudes, the Appalachian Mountains and the Gulf Stream influence climate and, hence, the vegetation (flora) and animals (fauna).
In North Carolina, the most common stink bug invading homes is the brown marmorated stink bug (Halyomorpha halys). They’ve been confirmed in 80 of North Carolina’s 100 counties.
The researchers found that each home contained about 93 unique arthropod orders, with especially large numbers of flies (found in 23 percent of rooms), beetles (19 percent), spiders (16 percent ...
Orfelia fultoni occurs in the Appalachian Mountains and Cumberland Plateau, primarily in the states of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. [2] The larvae of the species live in stream banks among moss and rock cavities, as well as in wet sandstone caves. They build sticky webs on moss, rotten wood, in cracks between rocks ...
Schistocerca americana is a species of grasshopper in the family Acrididae known commonly as the American grasshopper [3] and American bird grasshopper. [4] It is native to North America, where it occurs in the eastern United States, Mexico, and the Bahamas. [3]