Beetle

The boneseed leaf roller moth (Tortrix s.l. sp. chrysanthemoides) is a month in South America that was released in several different locations (New Zealand, Australia) to control the population of the boneseed plant (Chrysanthemoides monilifera ssp.monilifera). The bonseed plant is a destructive plant that overtakes and damages native plants. The plant is thick with daisy like yellow flowers, leathery leaves and black clustered fruit. This plant produces large amounts off seeds that quickly over…

The Dystopian Generations of Orwell’s 1984 and Dashner’s The Maze Runner Dystopian novels have defined culture for generations by warning of a doomed future. Dystopian literature portrays a world in which control is maintained on the corporate, governmental, technological, and a form of ideology. Two novels from separate generations, George Orwell’s 1984 and James Dashner’s The Maze Runner share warnings of an unsettling future by presenting similar characteristics of society, societal control,…

time. That day was also a sunny one with birds chirping in the distance but some clouds would clump together in patches. My cousins and I decided to go out and look for interesting animals near the river. Our goal was to capture some nice looking beetles to show the neighborhood kids. So we set off with all the materials we thought we needed, a flashlight, some water, food, a net, a bug…

trees are a very common and beautiful tree in Wisconsin, and they are used by many people for their lumber. There is a nuisance attacking and destroying the ash tree, and that is the infestation of the invasive Emerald Ash Borer, or EAB. The adult beetles do little harm to the tree by just eating their foliage, but their larvae burrow beneath the bark of the tree and restrict the tree’s ability to transport nutrients and water. The process takes anywhere from 1-5 years and the infestation is…

the top. The aquatic habitat included guppies, shrimp, a snail, and elodea. The filter was composed of a layer of fine sand, coarse sand, activated carbon, and gravel. The terrestrial habitat in our bottle ecosystem featured mealworms, a mealworm beetle, annual bluegrass, and purslane. In the aquatic habitat, the aquatic plant that was used was Elodea canadensi. Elodea canadensi, or the American waterweed is a common plant and is found throughout temperate North America. It features three…

THUMBELINA Once upon a time, there was a very lonely lady. She had always dreamed of having a child of her own, so she traveled far, far away to meet with a great wizard and ask him for help. The wizard gave her one seed from a magic flower. Watch over this seed and nourish it with your love. When it grows, you will have a child. The lady thanked him and gently held the seed to her heart. When she returned home, she carefully planted the seed in a pot and tended it every day. She placed the…

He had a falcon head which is crowned with a sun disc. This sun disc was encircled by a sacred cobra named Uraeus. Ra has also been depicted as a man with the head of a beetle and also a human man with the head of a ram. The ancients also depicted Ra in full species form such as a serpent, heron, bull, lion, cat, ram, hawk, beetle, phoenix and others. His main…

recorded to Grants computer and he got that fly at ten pounds of pressure. Next they used a Cicada with the same set up. That got them to thirty seven pounds of pressure. The last insect they used is one of the world’s largest insects, the Goliath beetle. It’s about four inches long and weighs about a hundred grams. That got them to a little over one hundred pounds of pressure and they were amazed. The independent variable in this episode the team thought that bugs wouldn’t even come close to…

relationship with their owners. Serpell starts his argument by talking about the parasitic relationship between the Atemeles beetles and ants. Through various bodily functions, the Atemeles beetles can find their way into the highly defensive ant colony. When they have successfully infiltrated the colony, they begin their attack without being noticed. Inside, the beetles and their offspring are taken care of by the worker ants. Serpell argues that this type of parasitic relationship is not what…

In the essay “Hope for Animals and Their World,” Jane Goodall attempts to persuade us about the importance of insects being part of the ecosystem. This essay proves the fact that insects and nature benefit us in several ways, such as helping crops grow, limiting the population of other bugs, and much more. However, we hardly return anything that benefits the ecosystem but instead, harms it. Goodall is capable of portraying this message through her ardent tone, as she is passionate towards…