This unusual and historic natural make-up of the Sefton coast provides the perfect home to a variety of creatures, including the Northern Dune Tiger Beetle
, the Natterjack Toad and of course, the adorable red squirrel.
Here, she chronicles one year of her observations of the Western red-bellied tiger beetle
in southwestern New Mexico.
Three invertebrates -- the cobblestone tiger beetle
, frigga fritillary butterfly and six-whorl vertigo snail -- could also be listed endangered.
The mite has outperformed the previous record holder - Australian tiger beetle
- which covers up to 171 body lengths per second.
The previous record-holder for fastest (relative) speed was the Australian tiger beetle
, which topped out at 171 body lengths per second, Science Magazine reported.
But a cheetah wasn't the previous record holder in this category: That honor went to the Australian tiger beetle
, which can cover 171 body lengths per second.
A wide range of other papers are more narrowly focussed, reporting, for example, on the discovery of two new plant species for the UAE, a butterfly previously unknown anywhere in Arabia that has evidently arrived along with imported plants used in horticulture, observations of a tiger beetle
once thought to be very rare, but evidently more widely spread than was previously recognised, and a first record for the UAE of a little known and extremely unusual species of mollusc.
Tourism impairs tiger beetle
(Cicindeldae) populations--a case study in a Mediterranean beach habitat.
The federally threatened and state endangered Puritan tiger beetle
(Cincindela puritana) undergoes its entire life cycle on or near these cliffs.
There's such diversity in the images; from a beautiful hummingbird to a fire in South Africa, water droplets on a spider's web to a green tiger beetle
Rare tiger beetle
wasp discovered at Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire.
The tiger beetle
Megacephala virginica was associated with the burned prairie-2005 in 2005 and also in 2006, although in much lower numbers.