Insecta
Water Strider
Gerridae Family
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The water strider’s long and slender legs, with several thousand hairs, enable them to walk on water.
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Gerridae is a family of true bugs in the order Hemiptera, commonly known as water striders, water bugs,magic bugs, pond skaters, skaters, skimmers, water scooters, water skaters, water skeeters, water skimmers, water skippers, water spiders, or Jesus bugs. Consistent with the classification of Gerridae as true bugs, gerrids have a mouthpart evolved for piercing and […] read more
Garden Snail
Helix aspersa 
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Fact: Helix aspersa has a life span of 5-10 years
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Cornu aspersum, known by the common name garden snail, is a species of land snail. As such it is aterrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Helicidae, which include the most commonly familiar land snails. Of all terrestrial molluscs, this species may well be the most widely known. In English texts it was classified under […] read more
Thread-winged Antlion
Nemoptera sinuata 
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Fact: Nemoptera sinuata undergoes a complete metamorphosis with egg, larval, pupal, and winged adult stages.
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Spoonwings or Nemopteridae are a family of neuropteran insects. They are also called Thread-winged Antlions. Their flight is delicate and they have a circling flight to avoid walls when they are trapped indoors. The long streamer is conspicuous when the insects are flying and these are the elongated and spatulate hindwings. They are found in […] read more
Pharaoh cicada
Magicicada septendecim 
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• Magicicada septendecim has a FLIGHT of 2
• Magicicada septendecim is also sometimes known as the 17 year locust
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Magicicada septendecim, sometimes called the Pharaoh cicada or the 17 year locust, is native to Canada and the United Statesand is the largest and most northern species of periodical cicada with a 17-year life cycle.[2] Accounts of the species’ life cycle cite reports of fifteen- to seventeen-year recurrences of enormous numbers of noisy emergent cicadas that people had written as early as 1737.[3][4] Pehr […] read more
Green Darner
Anax junius
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Fact: Anax junius is one of the largest dragonflies.
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The Green Darner or Common Green Darner[2] (Anax junius), after its resemblance to a darning-needle, is a species ofdragonfly in the family Aeshnidae. One of the most common and abundant species throughout North America and it ranges south to Panama.[3] It is well known for its great migration distance from the northern United States south into Texas andMexico.[4] It also occurs in […] read more
Puriri Moth
Aenetus virescens 
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• Aenetus virescens has a FLIGHT of 2
• Aenetus virescens spends 5 or so years of its life as a grub in a tree trunk, with the last 48 hrs of its life as a moth.
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The puriri moth, Aenetus virescens, is a moth of the family Hepialidae, endemic to the North Island of New Zealand. It is New Zealand’s largest moth, with a wingspan of up to 150 mm.[1][2] The moth spends the first five to six years of its life as a grub in a tree trunk (including non-native species such as Eucalyptus), with the last 48 […] read more