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Following a reported heist of rare live insects in 2018, the insectarium was the subject of a four-part, video titled Bug Out that was released in 2022. [2] Following release of the Bug Out video in March 2022, a defamation lawsuit was filed in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, Cambridge, et al. v. Feldman, et al., C.C.P. Phila.
Many Pennsylvanians know these insects by the name "lightning bugs" and may have confused "firefly" with "black fly" when that state was plagued by them in 1988 [citation needed]. This might be why that year the legislature again confirmed the Pennsylvania firefly's official status and specified it by scientific name. The amended act reads:
Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects is a series of books produced by the Royal Entomological Society (RES). The aim of the Handbooks is to provide illustrated identification keys to the insects of Britain, together with concise morphological, biological and distributional information.
The Frost Entomological Museum is an active research institution, associated with the Pennsylvania State University's flagship campus in University Park, Pennsylvania.The museum houses a research collection, estimated at 1.3 million [1] arthropod specimens, and a public exhibition and educational space.
A pair of mating D. femorata in the Hudson Highlands region of New York. The common walkingstick is a slender, elongated insect that camouflages itself by resembling a twig. . The sexes differ, with the male usually being brown and about 75 mm (3 in) in length while the female is greenish-brown, and rather larger at 95 mm (3.7 i
Jerusalem crickets (or potato bugs) [1] are a group of large, flightless insects in the genera Ammopelmatus and Stenopelmatus, together comprising the tribe Stenopelmatini. The former genus is native to the western United States and parts of Mexico , while the latter genus is from Central America .
Green lacewings are insects in the large family Chrysopidae of the order Neuroptera.There are about 85 genera and (differing between sources) 1,300–2,000 species in this widespread group.
According to VanDyk, BugGuide had over 809 million hits in 2010, averaging approximately 26 hits per second. [6] He also stated that in early 2011 the site consisted of almost 34,000 written pages representing about 23 percent of the estimated insect species in North America. [6]