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- Orange-tip (pictured above) Description: Greenish-white when first laid, but turn bright orange in a few days. Where: Eggs are laid beneath the calyx or on a stalk of cuckooflower, garlic mustard.
- Large white. Description: The yellow skittle-shaped eggs are laid directly on the food plant (rather than on top of other eggs) in batches of 40 to 100 eggs, resulting in an organised egg mass.
- Brimstone. Description: Although several eggs may be found together, this is either the result of different females, or the same female revisiting the same spot.
- Speckled wood. Description: The spherical eggs are very light green in colour are laid singly, sometimes in pairs, on the underside of a leaf of the foodplant.
- 1. Banded Fishing Spider
- Dark Fishing Spider
- Six-spotted Fishing Spider
- White-banded Fishing Spider
- Striped Fishing Spider
- Marine Spider
- Dolomedes okefinokensis
- Clever Fishing Spider
- Water Spider
- Common White-flanked Waterspider
Scientific name:Dolomedes vittatus. Common name:Banded Fishing Spider. The Banded Fishing Spider is found across the US, predominantly in cypress swamps. It may be grey or brown with whitish stripes over the body and legs. Its diet consists of aquatic insects, tadpoles, and small fish. The body of a female is around 23mm long, slightly bigger than ...
Scientific name:Dolomedes tenebrosus. Common name:Dark Fishing Spider. The Dark-Fishing Spider could also be classified as a tree-dweller, as it chooses wooded areas to nest and during the day it hides in crevices. It is often found inside houses However, most do live near bodies of water and feed on aquatic insects as well as small fish. The body ...
Scientific name:Dolomedes triton. Common name:Six-spotted fishing spider, dock spider. Dolomedes Tritontypically lives in ponds and small lakes. Its diet mainly consists of water striders (aka pond skaters), but as an opportunistic hunter, it will eat anything that it can capture, including insect larvae, tadpoles, and small fish. This spider also ...
Scientific name:Dolomedes albineus. Common name:White-banded fishing spider. Females measure around 23 mm long and males are around 18 mm. This spider builds webs but they’re not used to trap prey. It hunts near or in streams and ponds. Its water-repellent hairs allow it to walk on water to chase its prey. By trapping an air bubble on its abdomen, ...
Scientific name:Dolomedes scriptus. Common name:Striped fishing spider. This spider gets its name from the “W” shaped marking on its abdomen, which resembles writing. Females can achieve a size of 6cm with their legs extended. It is usually is a light brown color with pale stripes around its legs and a broad stripe along each side of its body. Like...
Scientific name:Desis marina. Common name:Marine spider. Desis marina is one of several inter-tidal spiders. These live at the seashore, below the high tide line, so for part of each day, they are totally submerged in saltwater. As they don’t have any particular physical features to help them cope with this, their survival has presented an interest...
Also known as the Giant Florida Fishing Spider, these are thought to be the largest known species of the Dolomedes genus. Adult female bodies can reach up to 30mm in length. They’re often found in boggy woodland areas, living near the base of trees. Incredibly fast but not aggressive to humans, they feed on insects, tadpoles, and small fish.
Scientific name:Dolomedes facetus. Common name:Clever fishing spider. Commonly known as the Clever Fishing Spider, the medium to large species is native to Australia. It lives in freshwater lakes and ponds near coastal areas. It can run across the water to bite fish many times its size, injecting venom from its fangs to paralyze and kill its prey, ...
Scientific name:Dolomedes aquaticus. Common name:Water spider. Native to New Zealand the D.aquaticus lives on open gravel riverbanks, where it’s able to use the stones as camouflage. It’s typically found living less than 5 meters from the water. A nocturnal hunter, It waits for its prey in darkness, using its body hair to sense vibrations. Like mos...
Scientific name:Nilus albocinctus. Common name:Common white-flanked water spider, fishing spider. Found everywhere in Asia from India to the Philippines. This distinctive spider is easy to recognize due to the broad, shiny black band which runs the length of its long, narrow body, flanked by white stripes along its length. In contrast, its long leg...
Lime butterflies mud-puddling with common emigrants (Catopsilia pomona) in India. This butterfly is an avid mud-puddler and visitor of flowers. It basks with its wings held wide open on tufts of grass and herbs, and generally keeps within a metre of the ground, even on cloudy days. It relies on its quick flight for escape. [15]
The Lime Hawkmoth and caterpillar, Mimas tiliae, information and photographs of the adult moth, caterpillar, identification features, and life cycle.
Ventral view of adult lime swallowtail, Papilio demoleus Linnaeus. Photograph by Marina Young, RADA, Jamaica. Eggs: The eggs are pale yellow, nearly spherical, about 1.5 mm, basally flattened, and smooth. Females lay eggs singly near the edges of the host plant leaves. Figure 3.
May 21, 2024 · Caterpillars are part of the life cycle of moths or butterflies which is known as complete metamorphosis. This life cycle includes four stages: egg, caterpillar (also known as the larval or feeding stage), pupa (the transition stage) and adult (the reproductive phase).
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