The Tiger Beetle

LOOK FOR THE FANGS! YOU HAVE TO LOOK CLOSE THOUGH!

Scientific Name: Cicindela Ocellata Rectilatera Chaudoir

Common Name: Tiger Beetle

Size: 12-14 milimeters

Range: In the United States, found over much of the eastern and Great Plains states. Absent from the Gulf Coast area. Range continues into southeastern Canada.

Food: A variety of insects

Location Found: In Rhonda's Pool swimming, The reason why it was in Rhonda's pool is because they love the water they can swim and are very attracted to it. I think that it was in her pool because it needed to get to water and Rhonda's pool was the closest.

Other Information: This bug has two jagged fangs! Look in the first picture. I tried my best to point them out. The fangs are closed we did not get a picture with his/her fangs open. I hope you can see them.

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Emily James

The Black Swallowtail Butterfly

Scientific Name: Papilio Polyxenes

Common Name: Black Swallowtail Butterfly

Gender: Male

Size: Grow to About 2.5 cenimeters (Body) Wing Spand is 8-10 cenimeters

Range: North America

Food: Nectar From Flowers. Specifically Butterfly Bushes.

Location Found: Rhonda's House on her Butterfly Bush by the Pool.

Other Information: To tell the difference from a boy and girl you look at the wings, if it is a girl it will have a blue line at the bottom of it's tail.


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Emily James

The June Bug

Scientific Name: Continus nitida

Common Name: June Bug and June Beetle

Food: Plant Leaves

Size: 25-45 milimeters

Life Span: 1-4 years. Wow!

Range: All Around The World

Location Found: My Aunt Rhonda's House Beside Her Pool.

Other Information: These are different from the Brown June Bug. They aren't big differences but their are a few. You do NOT want these bugs on your plants!

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Emily James

Brown June Bug

Scientific Name: Phyllophaga sp.

Common Name: Brown June Bug

Size: 25-45 Millimeters

Food: Plant Leaves

Life Span: 1-4 Years Wow that's a long life for a bug!

Range: All Around The World

Location Found: Outside Beside The Light

Other Information: These bugs are very harmful to plants!

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Emily James

PS: Please email me if you have a uestion about this bug or any of the others! :) Thank you!

The Leaf Hopper

Scientific Name: Acanalonia Servillei

Common Name: Leaf Hopper

Size: 2-30 millimeter's long

Food: All Species Feed On Plant Sap

Range: All Over The World

Location Found: Flying around our outside light. (One of the spots they are most likely found in)

Other Information: The Leaf Hopper is harmless to human. Also, there is over 100,000 speices!


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Emily James
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Bug On A Wire

http://www.miniclip.com/games/bug-on-a-wire/en/

Sorry something is wrong with Blogger today so you will have to copy and paste the Bug On A Wire game in your website bar at the top of your screen.
This is one of my favorite computer gameson the web, it is of bugs so I thought i'd share it with you. What you have to do is use your arrow keys to move along the 4 wires and try to avoid other obstacles. Good luck playing!

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Emily James

Arachnid Fight!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv8Dav3At-I&feature=email

This is a video I recorded of two spiders fighting. They are both Grass Spiders. Please click on the link and watch it on YouTube. I uploaded it on my YouTube account because it would not upload to blogger.
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Thanks! and Enjoy!,
Emily James

Arachnid Section!

Here is another of my findings it is not a insect it is an Arachnid.

Scientific Name: Latrodectus mactans mactans

Common Name: Southern Black Widdow Spider

Gender: Female

Range: Southern US as far as Canada

Food: Insects

Size: Fully Grown is 1.2 in.

Location Found: Inside our water meter at our house.

Other Info: The black Widdow is known as the most venomous spider in North America.

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Emily James

Leaf- Footed Bug

Scientific Name: Acanthocephala Declivis

Common Name: Leaf- Footed Bug

Range: North Carolina to Florida, West to Arizona

Identification: A leaf like creature with a flat and narrow body and 2 tubercles ( which are the two black dots behind its head)

Gender: ?

Location Found: My backyard on my mom's back. That's where he liked to hang. :)

Other Information: There are only three species in Florida.

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Thanks,

Emily James

PS there is a picture with it's Tubercles circled in red. They are very tiny so look hard. It is the first picture.

Hercules Beetle

Scientific Name: Dynatstes Tityus

Common Names: Hercules Beetle, Rhinocerous Beetle,Unicorn Beetle (The last two names are for males)

Gender: Female

Date Found: July 1 2009

Range: Eastern United States, north into southern New York, Pennsylvannia, west to Indiana, Texas

Idenification: Huge size, greenish elytra with variable amounts of dark spots. Some are nearly black. Male has massive horns projecting forward from head and pronotum.

Size: Adult 40-60 mm long (including the "horns" of the male) and 20 to 27 mm wide

Food: Adults feed on rotting fruit, sap, to some extent.

Location Found: At Mount Juliet First Baptist Church after VBS.

Other Information: This is the Largest and Heaviest beetle in North America.

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Emily James

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