The Australian Wolf Spider (Hoggicosa castanea) is an arachnid in the Lycosidae family of wolf spiders. It is a wandering species of spider.
The Australian Wolf Spider is brown and camouflaged in its srroundings. It has eight eyes arranged in three rows. Two of its eyes are large and prominent. Unlike most spiders, it has excellent eyesight.
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What is a group of stingrays called?
A group of stingrays is called a fever of stingrays.
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The White Ermine Moth (Spilosoma lubricipeda) is an insect in the Erebidae family of moths.
The White Ermine Moth has milky-white wings with black dots. Its hind (back) wings have one or several black dots. It has long, black antennae.
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The Southern Grey Huntsman Spider (Isopedella cerussata) is an arachnid in the Sparassidae family of common huntsman spiders. Sparassids are eight-eyed spiders.
The Southern Grey Huntsman Spider is grey with smooth furry hair. It has eight long, thin legs. It often has a faint leaf-shape on its abdomen, bordered by faint white spots.
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The Green Tortoise Beetle (Cassida viridis) is an insect in the Chrysomelidae family of leaf beetles.
The Green Tortoise Beetle has a flat, oval-shaped body. Its thorax (chest) and elytra (wing cases) are green. It has short legs and short, brown antennae. Its underbelly is black.
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The Isopeda Huntsman Spider (Isopeda vasta) is an arachnid in the Sparassidae family of common huntsman spiders. It is also known as the Giant Crab Spider. Sparassids are eight-eyed spiders.
The Isopeda Huntsman Spider is reddish-brown, with eight long, thin legs. Its mouth parts are darker than its body. Its legs are spiny, but its body has smooth furry hair.
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The White Plume Moth (Pterophorus pentadactylus) is an insect in the Pterophoridae family of moths.
The White Plume Moth is white – with white wings and a white body. Each of its hind (back) wings is divided into three thin feathery plumes. Each of its front wings is divided into two thin feathery plumes. It looks like it has five feathery fingers on each side of its body. It has long white antennae and white legs.
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What is a group of rooks called?
A group of rooks is called a building of rooks, a clamour of rooks, or a parliament of rooks.
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The Common Sexton Beetle (Nicrophorus vespilloides) is an insect in the Silphidae family of burying beetles.
The Common Sexton Beetle has two orange-yellow bands on it elytra (wing cases or wing covers). The wing cases are square and shorter than its body. It has black legs and short, black antennae.
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The Vietnamese Cane Spider (Heteropoda venatoria) is an arachnid in the Sparassidae family of tropical huntsman spiders. It is also called the Vietnamese Giant Crab Spider. Sparassids are eight-eyed spiders.
The Vietnamese Cane Spider has a flat, brown body. Its body is very hairy, but its 8 legs only have hairy tips. The clypeus, the area in front of its eyes, is yellowish. The carapace, behind its eyes, has a wide tan-coloured band on the female and a cream-coloured band on the male. It has eight long, banded legs.
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The Leather Beetle (Carabus coriaceus) is an insect in the Carabidae family of ground beetles.
The Leather Beetle has a small rounded head, a small thorax (chest), and a long, deep black, leathery abdomen (body). It is wingless. It has long, black and ridged antennae. It has a groove on its foreleg with a comb of hairs used for cleaning its antennae. It has bulging eyes. It has six long, thin, hairy legs.
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Madagascar Huntsman spiders stitch leaves together with silk to trap tree frogs.
Researchers in a vanilla plantation in north-east Madagascar in 2017 found an unsual Huntsman Spider while conducting wildlife surveys. While surveying birds, Dominic Martin at the University of Goettingen in Germany noticed a Huntsman Spider (Damastes sp.) eating a tree frog (Heterixalus andrakata).
His colleague, Thio Fulgence, at the University of Antananarivo in Madagascar, who was surveying reptiles and amphibians in the plantations, noticed that the spider was sitting between two leaves that it had stitched together with its silk to form a type of envelope.
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What is a group of bears called?
A group of bears is called a sloth of bears or a sleuth of bears.
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The Cabbage Fly (Delia radicum) is an insect in the Anthomyiidae family of crop flies. It is also known as the Cabbage Root Fly, the Root Fly, or the Turnip Fly.
The Cabbage Fly is grey and looks like the House Fly.
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What is an animal’s Arc of Vision?
An Arc of Vision (AoV) is also known as the Field of View (FoV) or the Field of Vision (FoV) or the Visual Field.
It is the view that an animal can see when its head, and the eye, are still. Can it see all around it – on all sides – or can it only see what is in front of it?
Monocular vision is what can be seen with one eye, and binocular vision is what can be seen with two eyes.
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The Yellow-Tail Acei Cichlid (Pseudotropheus Acei) is a freshwater fish in the Cichlidae family of cichlids. It is a Mbuna cichlid.
The Yellow-Tail Acei Cichlid has a yellow tail. Its body is blue, blue-purple, or grey.
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Scientists think that adult fish are getting smaller as sea temperatures rise.
Research scientists have been studying the size of fish in the ocean over the past 50 years, since 1970, and they think that they are shrinking in size due to warmer oceans.
At the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom, Idongesit Ikpewe and his colleagues have found that warmer seas are linked to changes in fish size. They looked at trends in four commercially fished species: cod, haddock, whiting, and saithe. They researched these fish in two locations: (1) the North Sea and (2) in the waters of Scotland.
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What is a group of widgeons called?
A group of widgeons is called a company of widgeons.
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The Eastern Olive Sunbird (Cyanomitra olivacea) is a small bird in the Nectariniidae family of passerine sunbirds.
The Eastern Olive Sunbird is olive in colour. It has short wings and a short tail. Its beak is long, thin, black, and arched. It has small black eyes and black legs.
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What are the different types of ducks?
The different types of ducks include: dabbling ducks, diving ducks, eiders, perching ducks, stifftails, and whistling ducks.
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