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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.
This is a large taxon of insects. Some estimates of the species numbers suggest well over 10,000 world-wide. [2] Males are easily recognized by their plumose antennae.Adults are known by a variety of vague and inconsistent common names, largely by confusion with other insects.
Until the 2010s, wild hogs had been documented in 15 of Tennessee’s 95 counties. These destructive animals are now found in 80 counties across the state.
Psorophora ciliata occurs east of the Continental Divide of the Americas [1] with a range from South Dakota south to Central America and east to Quebec and Florida. [3] In South America, P. ciliata can be found in tropic or temperate environments. [4]
Cotinis nitida, commonly known as the green June beetle, June bug or June beetle, [1] is a beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in the eastern United States and Canada, where it is most abundant in the South. It is sometimes confused with the related southwestern species figeater beetle Cotinis mutabilis, which is less destructive.
One female may lay hundreds of eggs in its lifetime. After the egg hatches, the immature bug takes a blood meal and molts eight times before reaching maturity. Triatoma sanguisuga feeds on blood from mammals such as raccoons, rats, dogs, cats, and humans. In addition, tree frogs can be a significant source of food. [5]
These common names are still widely used for this and other species of corydalids, and essentially all that is known is that the earliest recorded uses appear to originate in the southern Appalachian region of the US (Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia), where there were other archaic regional names and variants such as "helgamite ...
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