The Blue Crabs Promise Summer Excitement For those living in Charles County, MD, one of the greatest summer pastimes is catching The Blue Crabs play a game or two. The Blue Crabs are a minor league baseball team that offer excitement for their fans all year long. The team plays from April through August, which gives residents plenty of time to catch several games. One of the most exciting portions of this season is the addition to roster that was just announced earlier this year, Steve Lombardozzi.…
A Kaleb Lamb Ms. Gourd English 9 May 7, 2018 ESSKEETIT!! One day deep in the highland and plains of South Africa. Two friends were dropped of by there helicopter to explore this bare landscape. The two boys were friends back in the United States.…
A gray tube, the dorsal vessel, ran along the earthworm’s back. The coelom was the space around the organs, as it is a body cavity surrounding the organs. 7. The crop, gizzard, and intestine contained soil (food). The gizzard had a much thicker wall than the crop, which reflects their functions.…
Darwinian Snails: Introduction The flat periwinkle is a small snail that lives on seaweeds growing on rocky shores in New England (McRae 2016). The scientific name of the periwinkle snail is Littorina obtusata. They were first introduced to the Atlantic Coast during the 19th century. These snails are known mainly for a morphological trait, the variation of shell thickness within the population.…
Before analyzing any situation, one must begin at the very root of the cause in hopes understanding it better. Sea World is surprisingly not the first establishment that decided to economically strive through the exploitation of animals. Orca whales that were captured and delivered to their lifelong home in SeaWorld amusement parks went from swimming up to 100 miles a day to being put in tanks that are much too small for them. The average size of an orca whale can reach up to 20-26 feet long and can weigh as much as 22,000 pounds. The size of the orca whales in comparison to the tanks they live in at SeaWorld are said to be in comparison to a “bathtub.”…
Garden snails The garden snails are slow,are rarely seen , and are animals that can be very large . To start us off, garden snails scarcely emerge from their home. The garden snail would hardly emerge during the day but at night and the early morning these snails will come out. Another thing,snails are very slow animals.…
Since the dawn of time, the horseshoe crabs have lived on Earth during the time of dinosaurs (probably before them). They have survived for a long time, making it to today. The horseshoe crab have been studied by scientists for a while. They were given the name “horseshoe crabs” because their heads are u-shaped. Nowadays, people have noticed that the horseshoe crabs have been playing an important role.…
This datasheet provided information on common slugs. It went into short detail about slugs’ dietary needs and how this can be damaging to plants kept in the yard. It also discussed slugs’ basic activity patterns and how they are drawn out at night and occasionally on rainy days. The main purpose of this sheet, however, was to provide information on how to maintain slug populations in your yard. The methods described included the elimination of shelter, using fermented materials as bait in a trap, producing barriers with abrasive materials, and using a variety of molluscicides.…
Crabs are a type of crustacean that occur within mangrove ecosystems and can be found from high tide through to low tide levels. Crabs shelter underneath logs and in cool places to avoid drying out and many create burrows for refuge from larger prey, it can also be the site of mating and incubation. Other crabs use burrows to store their food as the water tide rises or lowers. Red fingered marsh crabs and fiddler crabs are commonly active at low tides where they are often out looking for food, fighting, or cleaning up around their burrows (Biology-assets.anu.edu.au, 2016). These species can also withstand living out of the water at months at a time for the reason of their primitive ling.…
The best place in Long Beach The Aquarium of the Pacific is the best place in Long Beach; it’s educational, fun, and entertaining. The Aquarium is educational for the following reasons; first, it features a collection of over eleven thousand animals, representing five-hundred different sea species. Secondly, these species range from the porcupine fish, giant octopus, and puffins, to the jellyfish, spider crabs, and so much more!…
The digestive system is made up of the alimentary canal which include the mouth or oral cavity, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small intestines, and large intestines including the accessory organs of digestion which involve the teeth, tongue, salivary glands, liver, gall bladder and the pancreas. The alimentary canal and the accessory organs perform the following functions which include; ingestion, secretion,…
Organic Snail and Slug Control Nothing is more frustrating than heading out into the garden and seeing your seedlings and plants chewed up by snails and slugs. With just one night’s of feasting, the slimy pests can devastate a newly planted vegetable garden. Fortunately, gardeners have organic options in control that aren’t toxic to the surrounding ecosystem. What Exactly is a Snail and Slug? Believe it or not, but snails and slugs belong in the mollusk family.…
Gastropods that lack a conspicuous shell are commonly called slugs rather than snails. Some species of slug have a red shell, some have only an internal vestige that serves mainly as a calcium repository, and others have no shell at all. Other than that there is little morphological difference between slugs and snails. There are however important differences in habitats and behavior.…
Segmentation (the sloshing motion that mixes chyme with the enzymes and chemical fluids in the small intestine) and pendular movement (a constrictive wave that involves forward and reverse movements and enhances nutrient absorption) will be the main contributors to mechanical digestion in the small intestine. The liver, gallbladder, and pancreas secrete enzymes, fluids, and hormones which will help in the chemical digestion of the macronutrients into their simplest components so that they can be absorbed by the body via villi and microvilli (known as the brush border) and eventually circulated through the blood stream and lymph…
An organism discovered on the Japanese seashore behaves as a predator and a plant in a bizarre lifecycle that may bring biologists closer to understanding how chloroplasts became part of plant cells, according to a study from the University of Tsukuba. Before understanding how this mysterious single-celled organism works, it had to be given a proper scientific name. Analysis of its cellular structure and genetic profile showed that it is most closely related to organisms assigned to the genus Katablepharis. However, electron microscopy revealed certain quirky features that are not consistent with Katablepharis classification.…