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Abaeis nicippe
Sleepy Orange
Abaeis nicippe, commonly known as the Sleepy Orange, is a medium-sized butterfly in the family Pieridae. The species exhibits seasonal variation in coloration, with summer individuals typically bright orange and winter forms showing darker, more heavily marked wings. It is known for its hilltopping behavior, where males patrol ridge tops and summits to locate females. The species has been documented engaging in aerial competitions with other males when pursuing females.
Algophagidae
Algophagidae is a family of astigmatid mites containing approximately 5 genera and at least 10 described species. Members inhabit specialized microhabitats including tree sap fluxes, water-filled treeholes, and sub-Antarctic moss or algal beds. Several species exhibit complex life histories with facultative deutonymph stages that may be phoretic or non-phoretic depending on environmental conditions. The family shows notable morphological plasticity related to habitat occupation.
Anaea troglodyta
Florida leafwing, Portia, Florida goatweed butterfly, Jamaican tropical leafwing, Cuban red leaf
A Nymphalidae butterfly with a wingspan of 76–90 mm, found in southern Florida and throughout the Caribbean. The species exhibits seasonal polyphenism, with distinct dry-season and wet-season forms. Larvae feed on Croton species, while adults consume rotting fruit, dung, and fluids. Taxonomic status is contested: some authorities recognize over 230 species in the genus Anaea, while others (following Lamas 2004) treat all populations as a single species, Anaea troglodyta.
Boloria selene
Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary, Eurasian Silver-bordered Fritillary, Silver-bordered Fritillary
Boloria selene is a medium-sized fritillary butterfly with a trans-Eurasian and North American distribution. The species exhibits complex population dynamics including bivoltine life cycles with distinct behavioral and developmental differences between spring and summer generations. In Europe it is known as the small pearl-bordered fritillary; in North America it is called the silver-bordered fritillary. The species serves as a grassland habitat indicator and has been extensively studied in the context of conservation management including prescribed fire and grazing regimes.
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scoliid wasps
Dielis is a New World genus of scoliid wasps (Hymenoptera: Scoliidae) in the tribe Campsomerini, formerly treated as a subgenus of Campsomeris. The genus comprises 12 species of medium to large solitary aculeate wasps distributed from Canada to southern South America. Adults are nectar-feeders, while larvae develop as ectoparasitoids of scarab beetle grubs in soil. The genus is notable for pronounced sexual dimorphism in color pattern and body structure, and for unusual mitochondrial genome architecture including a split cox2 gene.
Dielis tejensis
Dielis tejensis is a recently described scoliid wasp endemic to Texas, first known from male specimens and later from mtDNA-verified females. The species exhibits strong sexual dimorphism in body structure and color pattern, with females previously misidentified as Dielis plumipes fossulana. It is notable as the first documented case of partial seasonal polyphenism in Scoliidae, correlated with a multi-generational life cycle and potential aestivation of female immature stages.
Diplolepis rosae
Mossy Rose Gall Wasp, Rose Bedeguar Gall Wasp, Robin's Pincushion Gall Wasp
A gall-inducing wasp in the family Diplolepididae that forms distinctive mossy, pincushion-like galls on wild roses, primarily Rosa canina and Rosa arvensis. The species is notable for its predominantly parthenogenetic reproduction, with fewer than 5% males in most populations. Females lay up to 60 eggs in developing rose buds, inducing chemically-driven plant tissue distortion that creates the characteristic bedeguar gall. The wasp has been introduced to North America alongside cultivated roses.
Doryodes latistriga
Doryodes latistriga is a moth in the family Erebidae described from specimens collected in coastal habitats of the northern Gulf of Mexico. It inhabits tidal creeks and salt marshes from Alabama to Louisiana. The species exhibits seasonal variation in wing coloration, with lighter spring and summer forms and darker fall and winter forms. Adults are active year-round.
Eucallipterus tiliae
Linden aphid, Lime-tree aphid, Lime Leaf Aphid
Eucallipterus tiliae is a specialist aphid species feeding exclusively on Tilia (lime/linden) trees. Adults are readily identified by a black stripe along the body and cloudy-black wing edges. The species exhibits pronounced seasonal polyphenism in nymphal pigmentation, with first-generation nymphs always unpigmented and later generations developing black dorsal bands in response to crowding and leaf maturity. Flight behavior is density-dependent, with both direct crowding and plant-mediated cues stimulating dispersal. Native to Eurasia, it has established worldwide wherever host Tilia species occur.
Eurema
Grass Yellows, Grass Yellow
Eurema is a widespread genus of grass yellow butterflies in the family Pieridae, comprising over 70 species distributed across Asia, Africa, Australia, Oceania, and the New World. The genus exhibits remarkable evolutionary phenomena including Wolbachia-induced feminization in multiple species, where genetic males are converted into functional females. Many species are characterized by seasonal diphenism—producing distinct wet-season and dry-season wing morphs. The type species is the North American barred yellow (Eurema daira).
Eurema mexicana
Mexican yellow, wolf-face sulphur
Eurema mexicana is a medium-sized yellow butterfly in the family Pieridae, primarily distributed in Mexico with occasional northward strays into the southwestern and central United States. The species is distinguished by a distinctive black forewing border forming a 'wolf-face' or 'dog-face' pattern, and exhibits seasonal color variation on the wing underside. Males patrol hilltops and open areas seeking females throughout the day.
Eustala
humpbacked orb-weavers
Eustala is a genus of orb-weaver spiders in the family Araneidae, first described by Eugène Simon in 1895. As of November 2024, the genus contains 87 species distributed primarily across the Americas, from the United States through Central America to South America, with highest diversity in Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina. Several species have been documented exhibiting specialized ecological relationships, including myrmecophily (living among ants) in Central American species that inhabit ant-defended acacia plants. The genus includes the well-known humpbacked orb-weaver, Eustala anastera, found across North and Central America.
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htperchroostnestdenburrowtunneldigexcavateminequarryextractremoveeliminateeradicateexterminatedestroydemolishruinwreckdamageharminjurehurtwoundmaimcripplelamedisableincapacitateparalyzestunshockastonishamazeastoundstaggerstupefydazebewilderconfusepuzzleperplexbafflemystifyenigmaGryllus rubens
Southeastern field cricket
Gryllus rubens, the southeastern field cricket, is a trilling field cricket native to the southeastern United States. It is a cryptic sister species to G. texensis, from which it originated via peripatric speciation. The species exhibits remarkable phenotypic plasticity in its communication system, with male calling songs and female preferences shifting reversibly between spring and fall generations in response to temperature. Wing polymorphism is environmentally and genetically influenced, with long-winged morphs appearing in spring/summer and short-winged morphs predominating in autumn/winter.
Memphis pithyusa
Pale-spotted Leafwing, Blue Leafwing
Memphis pithyusa is a leafwing butterfly in the family Nymphalidae with a wingspan of 57–76 mm. The species exhibits strong sexual dimorphism, with females notably larger than males. It displays seasonal polyphenism, with distinct dry and wet season forms. The underside of the wings is cryptically colored to resemble a dead leaf, while the upper surface shows dark blue to brown coloration with light spots. It is the smallest member of its species group.
Papilio troilus
Spicebush Swallowtail, Green-clouded Butterfly
Papilio troilus, the spicebush swallowtail, is a black swallowtail butterfly native to eastern North America. Adults are primarily black with distinctive green-blue (male) or bright blue (female) half-moon markings on the hindwings, along with cream-yellow spots and orange basal patches. The species exhibits two subspecies: the widespread P. t. troilus and the Florida-endemic P. t. ilioneus. Larvae are notable for their dramatic ontogenetic color change, shifting from bird-dropping mimicry in early instars to snake-mimicry with large eyespots in later stages.
Pieris marginalis
margined white
Pieris marginalis, commonly known as the margined white, is a butterfly species distributed across western North America from the Yukon through Western Canada to the Rocky Mountains. It exhibits seasonal polyphenism, with distinct spring and summer wing forms. The species utilizes plants in the family Brassicaceae as larval hosts and has been observed in both disturbed and undisturbed habitats, suggesting ecological flexibility.
Polygonia
comma, anglewing
Polygonia is a genus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae, commonly known as commas or anglewings. Members are recognized by a conspicuous white comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hindwing and angular notches on the outer edges of the forewings. The genus exhibits remarkable seasonal polyphenism, with distinct light and dark morphs corresponding to non-diapausing and diapausing generations. Many species hibernate as adults. The genus has been alternatively classified as a subgenus of Nymphalis.
Vanessa
Ladies and Related Admirals, Painted Ladies, Red Admirals
Vanessa is a genus of brush-footed butterflies (Nymphalidae) with near-global distribution. The genus includes conspicuous species such as the painted ladies (subgenus Cynthia) and red admirals. Members are known for mass migratory behavior, particularly in North American populations of Vanessa cardui. The genus has been extensively studied for wing pattern development and seasonal polyphenism.