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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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Changes in molluscan fauna of the Greenfield Lake Basin are due to, among other causes, pollution and winter drawdowns.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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