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Field and Swamp: Animals and Their Habitats

        

Other Insects (infraclass Neoptera, subclass Pterygota, class Insecta, subphylum Hexapoda, phylum Arthropoda, kingdom Animalia, domain Eukaryota) 

This is a very miscellaneous assortment of insects.  Go to True Bugs, Flies, Moths, Odonata (Dragonflies and Damselflies),  Mantids or Beetles to see yet others.

Validity of taxa was checked against the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

  Dobsonflies and Fishflies (Megaloptera order)
Dobsonfly (family Corydalidae), Eno River SP, Old Cole Mill Road access, Orange County, NC, 5/29/05.   Fishfly (family Corydalidae), Durham, NC, 6/8/07

Eastern Subterranean Termites (Reticulotermes flavipes, Rhinotermitidae family, Isoptera order)
 
Worker termites, Cox Mountain, Eno River State Park, Orange County, NC, 10/21/07, found under a log.  They were very tiny, less than 2 mm long. Worker termites, Occoneechee Mountain Natural Area, Eno River State Park, Orange County, NC, 3/22/08 Soldier termite, Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, Orange County, NC, 3/14/08  


     
Winged termites about to mate, Durham, NC, 4/18/08.  Note that the female has removed her big wings for this purpose. Worker ant subduing a winged termite, Occoneechee Mountain Natural Area, Orange County, NC, 4/9/06      

Scorpionflies (Panorpa genus, Panorpidae family, Mecoptera order)

Male Common Scorpionfly (Panorpa genus, order Mecoptera, family Panorpidae), Blue Ridge Parkway, Marker 299, NC, 8/5/08. Male Common Scorpionfly, Macon County, NC, 8/9/05. Female Common Scorpionfly,  Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, Orange County, NC, 9/27/07. Female Common Scorpionfly, Mason Farm Biological Reserve, 9/18/05. Common Scorpionfly, Durham, NC, 11/8/08.  Common Scorpionfly, Durham, 4/28/06

Hangingflies (Bittacidae family, Mecoptera order)

At first glance, hangingflies seem similar to crane flies, but hangingflies have four wings and can seize insect prey with their unusual legs.

Hangingfly, Durham, NC, 6/8/07

 

Barklice (Psocoptera order)

       
Maybe a booklouse nymph (Liposcelididae family, Nanopsocetae infraorder, Troctomorpha suborder) was less than 1 mm long.  ID according to Marshall (2006), p. 159 Adult barklouse  (Graphopsocus cruciatus, family Stenopsocidae), Durham, NC, 6/30/08.  Order ID thanks to v belov Adult barklouse, Durham, NC, 8/1/08        

Mayflies (Ephemeroptera order)

The Eurylophella enoensis species, peculiar to the Eno River State Park (Durham and Orange Counties, NC), may be represented here.

Mayfly (Eurylophella enoensis,  perhaps), Eno River State Park,
Pea Creek Trail, Orange County, NC, 9/12/07. 
Mayfly, Penny's Bend Nature Preserve, Durham County, NC, 3/30/07 Mayfly (Eurylophella enoensis,  perhaps), Cox Mountain Trail, Eno River State Park, Orange County, NC, 5/6/07 Mayfly exuviae, Penny's Bend Nature Preserve, Durham County, NC, 7/15/07

Silverfish (Lepismatidae family, Zygentoma order)

   
Silverfish (outside), Durham, NC, 5/9/08    

Eggs

Egg?, Durham, 6/16/05.  You can see a dark head and a light body inside.  These eggs were each about an eighth of an inch long. Egg, Durham, 6/20/05.  The growing insect is mostly obscured. This seems to be farther along: the head is emerging, and organs seem to be visible.  It moved when I touched it. Egg mass, most probably those of a Horse Fly, Durham, near mini-swamp, 7/13/06

 

Eggs, Durham, NC, 6/17/07.  This egg mass, laid on a cattail leaf, was about 6 mm long.

 

  © 2006 Dorothy E. Pugh

 

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