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How to grow Sarracenia Pitcher plant from seed. In order to grow a Sarracenia pitcher plant from seed, you need to have time, and patience. Sarracenia has to be watered with rain or purified water every day or every other day. Never allow the soil to get dry, but you also never want your plant to sit in water. Too much water can make a plant mold causing it to die, or be very difficult to take care of. Sarracenia is a carnivorous plant. Therefore it likes soil with little to no nutrients. The…

a better understanding of honey bee social behavior. It is important to have more information on how behavior affects, and is affected by, the social environment, as well as identifying and studying biological mechanisms that can explain differences in the social aspects of behavioral efforts, relationships, and…

hornets skin type is like a shell. This bug could harm someone really bad. It is also in the wasp family. Here are some facts that you didn’t know. The insect could really kill someone if they were stung by this. It is also known as the Giant sparrow bee. Also it is the largest species of hornets. This hornet can be found in eastern Asia. They are very aggressive carnivores hunting other insects even bees. The queen makes nest on the ground. The blue…

In this piece Darwin describes the differences between the hive bee and the humble bee. Bees have to shape their cells in ways that they hold the greatest amount of honey possible while using the least amount of wax. It seems quite amazing how these bees can make these shapes with all the angles and planes but what is amazing is that all it came from their instinct. The hive and the humble bee both structure their cells differently. At one end of the spectrum, the humble use their old their old…

Jacob Weishuhn 11/1/15 BIO 4416-L01 IA: Nathan Custer Which Food Choice Attracts Hummingbirds After a Major Drought? Artificial vs. Natural Introduction Two species of hummingbirds that breed during the summer in Texas are the Black-chinned Hummingbird and the Ruby-throated Hummingbird and, throughout the year, many other species are migrating through this area. The Black-chinned Hummingbird (Archilochus alexandri) is a small green-backed hummingbird with a few distinct colors except for thin…

The Bee shown in the image displayed on the course website is of the Rusty Patched Bumblebee (Bombus Affinis). This unique bumblebee has recently received attention from many environmental agencies. On January 11th, it received protections given by the U.S. Endangered Species Act. This is the very first variation of bumblebee to be place on the list. Rusty patched bumblebees are considered as a very social insect, living in colonies led by a single queen. Workers and males are designated by…

The species Callosobruchus maculatus is known to be pestiferous, and has the potential to cause significant financial damage to legume agriculture. In the past decade, significant progress has been made to identity different materials capable of controlling pestiferous insect infestation without causing damage to plants or negatively affecting animals and humans. Herein, we investigate the effects of glucose, ethanol, acetic acid, and sodium hydroxide treatments on the mortality and fecundity of…

Bumbled is a 3D platformer/art game inspired by games such as flower, Mister Mosquito and Nights: Into Dreams. In Bumbled you control Queen Garnet, a queen bee whose loyal subjects have all mysteriously vanished. After years of being pampered and attended upon, she is left to her own devices and forced to leave behind her life of luxury in order to gather nectar from flower and find her loyal subjects. Can Queen Garnet survive beyond the hive? The game’s art style is evocative of water colors…

Bumblebees and Blueberries Many plants require insects for pollination, and therefore reproduction. Blueberries are one such species of plant. They are also one of the main products of Maine. In 2007 alone, Maine gained around 250 million dollars from their blueberry industry (University of Maine 2007). One of the key pollinators of Maine blueberries are the native bumblebees. There are 17 known native bumblebee species in Maine, but there seems to be a problem. It is well known that there has…

out to sting them or their loved ones. Bees sting once and then die; their stinger is simply a defense mechanism. If people learn to not be scared of bees, then they will be less likely to kill them on sight, and more likely to plant gardens full of bee-friendly plants, which could go a long way towards saving these…