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Click beetle. Elateridae or click beetles (or "typical click beetles" to distinguish them from the related families Cerophytidae and Eucnemidae, which are also capable of clicking) are a family of beetles. Other names include elaters, snapping beetles, spring beetles or skipjacks. This family was defined by William Elford Leach (1790–1836) in ...
The Lone Star Flag [ 1] June 30, 1839. National seal. Seal of the Republic of Texas. January 25, 1839. State seal. Seal of Texas. December 29, 1845. Reverse of the seal.
Beetlewing art is an ancient craft technique using iridescent beetle wing cases ( elytra ), practised traditionally in Thailand, Myanmar, India, China and Japan, as well as Africa and South America. Beetlewing pieces are used as an adornment to paintings, textiles and jewellery. Different species of metallic wood-boring beetle wings were used ...
A binder clip, or a banker's clip or foldback clip, is a simple device for binding sheets of paper together. It leaves the paper intact and can be removed quickly and easily unlike the staple. The binder clip was invented in 1911 by Washington, D.C., resident Louis E. Baltzley who was motivated by a desire to help his father, Edwin, a prolific ...
The Asian Acanthacorydalis fruhstorferi can have a wingspan of up to 21.6 cm (8.5 in), making it the largest dobsonfly and the largest aquatic insect in the world by this measurement. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The wings vary from a grayish to translucent shade, depending on the species, and the anal region of the hindwing is wide and folded at rest.
Triumph and tragedy are everywhere you look at the Olympics, and the men’s BMX park final on Wednesday had a surfeit of both.. For tragedy, see how the pre-competition favorites – Australia ...
A larviform female with light-emitting organs on her abdomen. Unlike actual larvae, she has compound eyes. Fireflies are beetles and in many aspects resemble other beetles at all stages of their life cycle, undergoing complete metamorphosis. [ 6 ] A few days after mating, a female lays her fertilized eggs on or just below the surface of the ground.
Maria Sibylla Merian (2 April 1647 – 13 January 1717 [ 1]) was a German entomologist, naturalist and scientific illustrator. She was one of the earliest European naturalists to document observations about insects directly. Merian was a descendant of the Frankfurt branch of the Swiss Merian family . Merian received her artistic training from ...