List of articles in "Species" category - Page 1574

The typical orb-weaver spiders (family Araneidae) are the most common group of builders of spiral wheel-shaped webs often found in gardens fields and forests. Their common name is taken from […]

Pinus sabiniana (sometimes spelled P. sabineana) with the common names gray pine California foothill pine and the more historically and internationally used digger pine is a pine endemic to California […]

The Agelenidae are a large family of spiders in the suborder Araneomorphae. Well-known examples include the common grass spiders of the genus Agelenopsis. Nearly all Agelenidae are harmless to humans […]

The New Zealand pea crab Pinnotheres novaezelandiae is a small parasitic crab that lives most commonly inside New Zealand green-lipped mussels. Adult females are about the size and shape of […]

Araucaria bidwillii the bunya pine is a large evergreen coniferous tree in the plant family Araucariaceae. It is found naturally in south-east Queensland Australia and two small disjunct populations in […]

Picea mariana (black spruce) is a species of spruce native to northern North America from Newfoundland to Alaska and south to Pennsylvania Minnesota and central British Columbia in the biome […]

Vitis vinifera (common grape vine) is a species of Vitis native to the Mediterranean region central Europe and southwestern Asia from Morocco and Portugal north to southern Germany and east […]

Sarcoptes scabiei or the itch mite is a parasitic arthropod that burrows into skin and causes scabies. Humans are not the only mammals that can become infected. Other mammals such […]

Artemia is a genus of aquatic crustaceans known as brine shrimp. Artemia the only genus in the family Artemiidae has changed little externally since the Triassic period. The historical record […]

The Montreal melon also known as the Montreal market muskmelon or the Montreal nutmeg melon (French: melon de Montréal) is a variety of melon recently rediscovered and cultivated in the […]