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The Poweshiek Skipper Project | |
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Ratcliff
Introduction Information about the butterfly
O.
poweshiek, Legacy butterfly Legacy
of Chief Poweshiek
H.W. Parker's writings Von Blixum's Heroic Experiment
Iowa's
biological diversity
The Poweshiek Skipper Project Goals
of the project
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Other Insects There are a number
of other insect groups where an Iowa checklist of species has been
developed. Other groups may have partial information or may be
largely ignored. There is good information for some groups on the Insects of Iowa website: The previously discussed moths of Iowa information can be found here. In addition, lists of mayflies of Iowa and stoneflies of Iowa can be found at this website as well. Not only are there lists, but there are photographs as well. There is some information on the ants of Iowa that can be found at the following web site. It gives 87 as the total number of species for Iowa, but only lists genera and the number of species in each genus for several states. http://www.acad.carleton.edu/curricular/BIOL/resources/ant/disttable.htm Original information that was used to develop the list can be found at the following references: Buren, W.F. 1942. New ants from Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin. Iowa State College Journal of Science 16: 399-408. ----------. 1944.A list of Iowa ants. Iowa State College Journal of Science 18: 277-312. ----------. 1968.A review of the species of Crematogaster, sensu stricto, in North America. 2. Descriptions of new species. Journal of the Georgia Entomological Society 3: 25-40. I
believe there is active work being done on native bees because people
are finally recognizing the importance of pollinators. The photograph on the top right is of a treehopper--a type of insect that sucks juices of plants. I found a number of these insects on black walnut trees in our property. They were being tended by ants. I took photographs and submitted them to the bug guide website http://bugguide.net Turns out this was a species that is known a little bit, but is still an undescribed species from a scientific standpoint. It is currently going by the name Enchenopa onjuglans. The photo on the left is a number of ants of the genus Crematogaster which had taken up residence in one of my beehives.
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