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Fireflies, lightning bugs, photurinae, all one in the same, all of these names are for one insect; the lovely, summer night firefly that children chase around and put in jars for a little lamp. Owl City’s song “Fireflies” describes the idea of a child’s lifelong dream of catching a jar full of fireflies and having a living nightlight, but as we all know the fireflies that are caught end up dying sooner rather than later. This song tells of how so many people just hurry through life and don't take time to appreciate the earth and what it does for us. People who listen to this song tend to be enlightened of how much the population hustles and bustles through life. Owl City tells this with the lyrics “I'd like to make myself believe/That planet…

The Honeybee (Apis mellifera) is an astounding insect that pollinates on a global scale and thus ensures the prosperity of plant life and animal life alike. However, its baffling how this insect maneuvers its tiny self against earth’s gravity and wind resistance contrary to its considerably small size. The average female Honeybee (pictured above) weighs in at 277 to 290 mg at adult emergence. As their wings are almost paper thin, they still manage to support the bee’s un-aerodynamic anatomy and…

The Spotted Wing Drosophila fly (SWD) is a quickly spreading across the United States of America. As SWD numbers get larger the number of fruit crops gets smaller. Aijun Zhang, a chemist working with the Agriculture Research Service, Invasive Insect Biocontrol, and the Behavior Laboratory in Beltsville Maryland, has found a solution to the SWD problem, Methyl benzoate. Methyl benzoate is emitted by snapdragons and petunias, to attract bees. SWD, unlike bees, is repelled from Methyl benzoate,…

colorful birds with iridescent feathers. The colors they have are blue, green, yellow, and pink. The name ‘hummingbird’ comes from the fact that their wings flap so fast, that it makes a humming noise. These magnificent birds can fly right, left, up, down, backwards and upside down and they also hover by flapping their wings in a figure eight pattern. The Hummingbirds feet are not used for hopping or walking, but perching. Hummingbirds are basically like bees, going around and sucking the nectar…

The bumblebee is an insect belonging to the Apidae family, a subcategory branching out from the Anthophila clade. The bumblebee belongs specifically to what is identified as the Bombini tribe of bees, this tribe consists of large apid bees that commonly feed on pollen or nectar. The Bumblebee belongs specifically to the Bombus genus classification. Bumblebees require an ambient amount of flowing plants in their habitat. Flowers play a prominent role in a prosperous bumblebee habitat, this is…

Malacostraca is another major class of Crustacea. The malacostracans are crustaceans with carapaces that extend over the head and thorax; the decapods (crabs, lobsters, shrimp, and crayfish) are members of Malacostraca. Cirripedia, sessile marine crustaceans commonly known as barnacles, are an additional class in Crustacea. (Kaesler, 1987a) Class Insecta Insects are terrestrial arthropods that first appeared in the Late Paleozoic. Insect tagmata include an anterior head consisting of multiple…

On the second day however it was mostly dedicated to the identification of the kingdom of insects that surrounded the freshwater biome. After the morning ablutions, the group was given some education into the proper use of the equipment that was provided in order to begin the Bio Blitz, which was essentially a search and identification program. Within this period of time, the sweeping of both land and airborne insects would be caught and placed into confinement for proper tagging and…

• Habitat (10 points total): Describe fully where the animal lives. Discuss: o The other plants and animals that live there (5 points) Threadleaf sundew, yellow butterwort, Tracy's Sundew, small butterwort and more. o The type of substrate (the soil, rocks, sand, or water type) (3 points) Its substrate is poor soil and in boggy areas. o The year-round climate (2 points) The Venus flytrap lives in North and South Carolina. • Biology of the Animal (10 points total): Give some background about…

The terminology used to portray insects is like that utilized for different arthropods because of their common developmental history. Three physical highlights isolate insects from different arthropods: they have a body separated into three locales (head, thorax, and mid-region). There is tremendous variety in body structure among insect species. These variety enable insects to involve relatively every environmental specialty on the planet, aside from the profound sea and the Antarctic. Because…

The monarch butterfly’s wings at first appear small, shriveled, and insufficient. For the next hour the vulnerable butterfly clings to it’s empty chrysalis, unable to fly. Hemolymph, the blood-like substance of insects, is pumped through the butterfly's body as it adapts to it’s surroundings. The same substance called hemolymph rushes to the insect's wings, enlarging them and making them strong. It only takes a short hour for the monarch butterfly’s wings to strength and dry before the creature…