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In the wetter parts of the northern latitudes of North America, including parts of Canada, New England, Upstate New York, Minnesota, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, black fly populations swell from late April to July, becoming a nuisance to humans engaging in common outdoor activities, such as gardening, boating, camping, backpacking, and ...
It was once thought to only known to occur in New York and Northern Maine, but has been since found more recently in eastern Canada as well. The Tomah mayfly is an endangered species and is listed as threatened in both New York (G1: critically imperiled conservation status) and Maine (G2: imperiled conservation status). [1] Its abundance is ...
This is a list of invasive species in North America.A species is regarded as invasive if it has been introduced by human action to a location, area, or region where it did not previously occur naturally (i.e., is not a native species), becomes capable of establishing a breeding population in the new location without further intervention by humans, and becomes a pest in the new location ...
Insect population decline affects ecosystems, and other animal populations, including humans. Insects are at "the structural and functional base of many of the world's ecosystems." [6] A 2019 global review warned that, if not mitigated by decisive action, the decline would have a catastrophic impact on the planet's ecosystems. [6]
It was later transferred to a new genus, Atta, along with five other species by Danish zoologist Johan Christian Fabricius in 1804. [4] In 1911, American entomologist William Morton Wheeler designated A. cephalotes as the type species of Atta. [5] It was also designated as the type species of Oecodoma, but the genus is now a synonym of Atta. [6]
1988 was a particularly bad year for air pollution, especially in the Northeast, with more than 2,500 code purple days logged across the nation. “That was one of the premier ozone episodes in ...
Lepidoptera of Canada (1 C, 230 P) Pages in category "Insects of Canada" The following 169 pages are in this category, out of 169 total.
Almost the entire world breathes air that exceeds the World Health Organization's air-quality limits at least occasionally. The danger grows worse when that bad air is more persistent than the ...