Beetle

Have you ever seen water come up storm drains in sunny weather in the middle of the day? Or how about 70,000,000 people being stranded on rooftops? This is a problem people are beginning to face every year because of climate change. Climate change is greenhouse gases trapped in the atmosphere, causing earth’s temperature to rise. Climate change is a huge issue because it causes many problems that destroy lands and waters, and kill animals, plants, and humans or cause them to relocate. It is so…

sister, who would turn on him later in the story. Upon metamorphosis, Gregor could no longer provide for himself, which wasn't a problem, or his family who, he was most worried about. From the point of this major physical change from a human to a beetle, his family starts to turn on him. This is due to the fact that Gregor had no longer acquired the ability to work to work and provide for his family. After everything he had done for his family, it seemed to hold no meaning to them. They were…

mouth part is chewing and their metamorphosis is complete. According to Turkish Journal of Zoology Lady bugs are predator insects. They prey on pest-like insects such as aphids, scale bugs, jassids, psyllids, white flies and mealy bugs. Lady bugs/beetles are important agriculture because they eat insects that eat crops. Aphids eat the leaves of vegetable plants and scale bugs can be…

challenging an aspiring entomologist is the identification of species within a family as diverse as ground beetles (Choate, 2001). Ground beetles are one of the most diverse insect families in the word. They occur in apparently all terrestrial habitats and represent a major part of the invertebrate predator guild of the soil fauna, e.g. in forests, maquis and agrocoenoses (Arndt et al., 2011). Ground beetles are often chosen for study because they are abundant in most terrestrial habitats,…

throughout the years as she observed the American Burying Beetle. Jane Goodall is a primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and a UN messenger of peace. She worked along chimpanzees to observe their behavior which by surprise, made a revolutionary impact on the scientific world. In Jane Goodall’s scientific essay, Hope for Animals and Their World, Goodall uses specifically two phrases and one word to help establish the idea that the beetles play a vital role in the environment, yet is still…

Biological control involved using known predators, parasitoids and pathogens of the powder-post beetles. Predators kill and consume their host immediately, whereas parasitoids lay their eggs inside the host that will slowly be eaten internally by the growing larvae. For Dinoderus minutus, known predators include Teretriosoma nigrescens (Coleoptera: Histeridae) that has also been reported to successfully suppressed other stored-product pests (Pöschko, 1994). The braconid wasp, Doryctus jarbus…

The Beauty of Complete Metamorphosis It was a warm day in early October. A young boy at the age of 11 with pale skin and freckles was frolicking in his neighborhood park about a block away from his house. He wore his favorite pair of blue jean overalls with a yellow and olive striped shirt underneath. He loved being outside and spent most of his time at his neighborhood park. His normal routine after he got off the bus from school was to go home, eat a snack of some sort, change into his play…

IN THE 21ST CENTURY Speculation regarding compound disaster effects is a hot debate topic in the industry as beetle kill in the early 1990’s is now entering the grey phase where the effects of such devastation are being seen to the end result. Researchers are attempting to calculate the precursor relationship between beetle kill and catastrophic fire in those areas. In addition to beetle kill, many researchers are addressing climate change in relation to fire regimes, though its effects are…

Bark beetle outbreaks are often fueled by drought and fire-damaged trees, killing more trees and exacerbating the effects of climate change (CFPC 2015). This paper will be focusing on the decline of one of California’s most abundant species, the Ponderosa pine…

Results Exercise 1a reproduced the outcome of 30 beetle population size that has a ratio of 1:1:1 in red, orange and yellow phenotypes and indistinguishable predation ratio (1:1:1) over 20 generations. 3 trials out of 4 showed an analogous trend, the highest frequency of alleles is the yellow phenotype after the 14th generation in trial 2 and 3 and 13th generation in trial 4, making the overall surviving beetle population by 20 generations. The red beetle population showed a drastic extinction…