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Sightings of the cicada Okanagana rimosa (Say) are reported in five North Carolina mountain counties and one county in Tennessee.
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Smith provides black and white reproductions of John White's paintings representing the box turtle, diamond back terrapin, loggerhead turtle, West Indian iguana, and crocodile, as well as a brief account of White's role in the history of American exploration.
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Brimleyana (NoCar QL 155 B75), Vol. Issue 16, July 1990, p119-131, il Periodical Website
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Changes in molluscan fauna of the Greenfield Lake Basin are due to, among other causes, pollution and winter drawdowns.
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Brimleyana (NoCar QL 155 B75), Vol. Issue 16, July 1990, p103-117, il, map Periodical Website
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Scientists used three trapping methods: nest boxes, Fitch live traps, and pitfall traps, to capture and survey small mammals in a range of habitats in the Great Dismal Swamp.
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Brimleyana (NoCar QL 155 B75), Vol. Issue 16, July 1990, p87-101, il Periodical Website
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Dietary analyses were conducted for marsh rabbits taken from dredge-material islands near Wilmington. The tests revealed that marsh rabbits primarily consumed upland vegetation, of which forbs and grasses comprised the bulk.
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Brimleyana (NoCar QL 155 B75), Vol. Issue 19, Dec 1993, p147-154, bibl Periodical Website
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The authors conducted a mark-recapture study to assess the impacts of wild hog rooting on small mammal populations in the upper elevation beech forests of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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Brimleyana (NoCar QL 155 B75), Vol. Issue 19, Dec 1993, p169-184, bibl, f Periodical Website
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Lunk captured and analyzed specimens of cottontail in order to determine an approximate total body fat quantity that is characteristic of the species.
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Brimleyana (NoCar QL 155 B75), Vol. Issue 19, Dec 1993, p141-145, bibl Periodical Website
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The first North Carolina specimen of the shiny cowbird, representing the fourth collected in North America, was discovered at New Bern in 1990.
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Brimleyana (NoCar QL 155 B75), Vol. Issue 19, Dec 1993, p205-206, bibl Periodical Website
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The first and only molluscan survey in the Neuse River basin was conducted in 1956. Since that time urbanization and industrialization have increased rapidly, potentially affecting molluscan population and distribution.
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Brimleyana (NoCar QL 155 B75), Vol. Issue 19, Dec 1993, p61-64, bibl Periodical Website
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Leatherback turtles have been sighted in the coastal waters off North Topsail Beach. The authors report their observations of leatherbacks regarding feeding behavior, fish associations, and the simultaneous occurrence of the turtles with jellyfish.
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Brimleyana (NoCar QL 155 B75), Vol. Issue 19, Dec 1993, p77-81, bibl, f Periodical Website
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The authors collected and analyzed specimens of snowy grouper in order to determine feeding habits. The results revealed that crustaceans, fish, and mollusks comprised the groupers' diet, and that crabs accounted for 90% of food items ingested.
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Brimleyana (NoCar QL 155 B75), Vol. Issue 19, Dec 1993, p101-135, bibl Periodical Website
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A communal roost of the silver-haired bat was discovered in Granville County in 1993. This is the first confirmed report of communal winter roosting for this species.
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Brimleyana (NoCar QL 155 B75), Vol. Issue 19, Dec 1993, p137-139, bibl Periodical Website
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Although the state has an indigenous scorpion, accidentally transplanted scorpions from Florida and the southwestern United States have been found in the state since 1991, for example, in Wake, Dare, and Nash Counties.
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Brimleyana (NoCar QL 155 B75), Vol. Issue 21, Dec 1994, p45-55, il, bibl Periodical Website
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The state's smallest mammal is the pygmy shrew, weighing two to three grams. Recently the first ever from the Coastal Plain and also the first in fifty years statewide were collected.
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Brimleyana (NoCar QL 155 B75), Vol. Issue 21, Dec 1994, p87-90, bibl Periodical Website
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H. H. and C. S. Brimley, immigrant English boys, came to Raleigh in 1880. Herbert became an outstanding taxidermist and worked for the Museum of Natural Science for sixty years, fifty-one as curator and director. Clement was an entomologist for the Agriculture Department and published the first catalog of insects in the South, The List of Insects of North Carolina. The Brimleys were the state's most influential naturalists, whose work left a lasting mark on the state
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Brimleyana (NoCar QL 155 B75), Vol. Issue 1, Mar 1979, p1-14, por, bibl Periodical Website
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