Lanomia Or Assasin Caterpillar

Decent Essays
Lanomia or known as “Assasin Caterpillar” is famous for their highly venomous. This caterpillar is responsible for the deaths of hundreds in the last 20 years. Lanomia can be found in Brazil and it’s almost impossible to see this insect as it has the ability to blend in with its natural habitat. These creatures has a back covered with spine, filled with venom. Once the victim feel they have touched hairy leaves, they are actually stung by the insect multiple times. The venom enters the blood and cause blood-clotting and soon it will look like bruises which will be the result of internal bleeding. Other symptoms may show up such as pain, swelling, headache and vomiting but after a day, the blood clotting will cause the victim to run out of

Related Documents

  • Decent Essays

    Pill Bugs Research Paper

    • 543 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Roly Pollie Party; How Different Types of Music Impact Pill Bugs Behavior In our experiment, my partner and I came up with the hypothesis that the vibrations of different kinds of music would affect the behavior of pill bugs. Pill bugs, also know as Roly Pollies, are small, black, terrestrial crustaceans, that roll up to protect themselves from predators. Pill bugs can't hear, but they can sense the vibrations from the sounds. This lead my partner and I to see how the vibrations from the sound would impact the behavior of the Roly Pollies.…

    • 543 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Pill Bugs Research Paper

    • 359 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Pill bugs name is woodlouse. Climate change will have an effect on animals, plants, and humans. With climate change rising many animals are going to get extinct in the future. Pill bugs are small animals that can live under rocks, and when you catch one they always tend to rolled up into a small ball. Their body temperature has to match with the environment that they live on.…

    • 359 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Earthworm Research Paper

    • 501 Words
    • 3 Pages

    3. The earthworm has a segmented body with a mouth at the anterior end and an anus at the posterior end. It has a smooth, purple dorsal side and a rough, yellow ventral side with setae. Two sperm grooves run along the body from segment 15 (where sperm ducts are also located) to the clitellum, which looks like a tube surrounding the earthworm’s body and is closer to the anterior end. 4.…

    • 501 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Lumbriculus Viegatus

    • 956 Words
    • 4 Pages

    In our study, we had two controls that we placed the Lumbriculus variegatus into. First, we used spring water to get the normal heart rate of the worms. The other control was a caffeine solution that served as our positive control. Our other solutions that we exposed the worms to consisted of increasing concentrations of two different NSAIDs (ibuprofen and aspirin). For each NSAID, we had a solution equivalent to the recommended dosage for a person based on body weight (the proportional dosage solution), ten times the concentration of this initial solution based on the body weight of the worm, and one-hundred times the concentration of the solution based on the average weight of Lumbriculus variegatus.…

    • 956 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Decent Essays

    A 12 year-old male resident of Bashagard, south part of Iran was stung 24 hours before admission by H. acanthocercus on her face and flank. Based on her mother's on word, five hours after envenomation, hematuria and referred her to hospital (Fig 1). She received 2 vials of scorpion antivenin and hydrocortisone in hospital. Because of the sever envenomation, she was transferred to the central hospital in Bandar Abbas district.…

    • 165 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Facts About Stingrays

    • 381 Words
    • 2 Pages

    (Bioexpedition) The venom’s symptoms can cause nausea, vomiting…

    • 381 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Why English Ivy Invades

    • 1006 Words
    • 5 Pages

    The stems, leaves, and berries it produces are poisonous when consumed in vast quantities, which influences severe skin irritation when it comes into contact with the sap. An individual who gets poisoned may experience hallucinations, convulsions, delirium, fever, stupor and…

    • 1006 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Cone Snail Research Paper

    • 351 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Cone Snail For centuries, the shells of the cone snail have been used as currency within small communities. Their shells each have unique patterns to them, making it great for jewelry and art pieces. But don’t let their innocent looks fool you. The cone snail is one of the deadliest animals in the world, mainly found in the Indian and Pacific oceans, and the Caribbean and Red seas.…

    • 351 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Gypsy Moth Research Paper

    • 1223 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Currently North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and Michigan also are using pilot programs to eradicate gypsy moths. Unlike some introduced pests gypsy moths also have natural predators that help the disturbance. Small mammals and birds prey on gypsy moths and are very important when moths are in low densities. The future may hold less gypsy moth problems thanks to important efforts being taken by the United States Department of…

    • 1223 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Birdy Cephom Altera

    • 89 Words
    • 1 Pages

    Snap Art from the collection, Birdy Cephom Altera is in battle with a space monster that she's trying to bring to jail for his crimes in the galaxy. In the midst of battle the monster caught a young man "Tsutomu" that was with his friend and throw him at Birdy, in battle he got killed by Birdy. Fortunately for Tsutomu, there is a way to keep him alive although it comes at a price discarding his body. He ends up merged into Birdy's body, Dou watch and enjoy…

    • 89 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Georgia State Insect

    • 878 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Introduction The state I chose for my research paper is Georgia. I chose this state because my family lives there. I wanted to know about what was there and some interesting facts about Georgia. Another reason I chose this state is their main fruit is a peach.…

    • 878 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Essay On The Black Plague

    • 1209 Words
    • 5 Pages

    The first symptoms are swollen and painful lymph glands on the armpit, neck, and groin. The swellings were known as buboes. These became horrific signs of impending death. Sometimes, hard knobs would spontaneously burst, causing drainage. If lucky, the victim could recover, if not totally exhausted or attacked by other infections such as high fever and agony.…

    • 1209 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Small Hive Beetle Essay

    • 1132 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Aethina Tumida, Small Hive Beetles (SHB), is native to sub-Saharan Africa, and it is a regular pest to the African subspecies of the western honey bee, Apis mellifera Linnaeus. Be that as it may, the beetle has been located outside of its natural habitat, where it is known to cause extensive damage to the plethora of colonies of the European subspecies of honey bees. In 1996, the small hive beetle was first sighted in the United States across a variety of states. There is no clear answer to how the beetles came over to the United States, but a multitude of people have the belief that the SHB first settled in Florida, and as the beekeepers from Florida migrated across the United States, the beetles followed. A. tumida is an invasive species and is causing many damages to the beekeeping…

    • 1132 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Short stories are fictional writings that can grasp the reader 's attention and make their imagination run wild with only reading a few pages. Although short in length, short stories are a form of captivating art that are just as thrilling as a regular novel. One particular short story that is completely mesmerizing is, “The Moth” by author Helena Maria Viramontes, that brings the element of magic into affect. In this short first person narrative, a Latina granddaughter recalls back to the time when she was a teenage girl spending time with her grandmother. The narrator describes the lack of apathy she had towards her sisters.…

    • 1389 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Molly Ward Mrs. Kaminski English 10/3rd June 1, 2016 A Summer of Silk Moths Book Report A Summer of Silk Moths is a 264 page modern realistic fiction book by Margaret Willey. In this book the Main Characters are Pete Sheldon, Abe McMichael, and Nora McMichael/Cobb. Pete is 17- years old who is working with Abe.…

    • 370 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays