Biological warfare

What is chemical warfare and why should we care about it? Chemical warfare is the use of toxins as a devastating weapon. So devastating that it falls under the WMD’s or weapon(s) of mass destruction. Although chemical weapons aren 't as prolific as during the WW1, they still pose a real threat. The most recent case and point is in Syria when they used chemical weapons on their own civilians after they were told by the OPCW to destroy them (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34212324). But…

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cactorum, population management strategies, such as biological control, are being investigated. The parasitoid Apanteles opuntiarum, is believed to have co-evolved with C. cactorum. To assess the non-target effects of the koinobiont larval parasitoid on non-target pyralids, host specificity tests were implemented in quarantine laboratory conditions. Argentine Cactus Moth (C. cactorum) Rearing The laboratory filter colony maintained at the Biological Control Rearing Facility in Gainesville,…

with insecticides, biological control is the best treatment option. It is an integral part of a successful Integrated Pest Management plan because biological control is one of the most successful methods of controlling invasive pests, using their own enemies against them. The established natural enemies can respond to host pest populations in and across kudzu patches with little human assistance. The primary goal of this project is to establish a sustainable, classical biological control…

“It’s a tough world out there when you’re an herbivore, particularly for us insects.” I’m a Green Stinkbug (Nezara viridula). I’ll guide you through some of current battles between us and plants. These battles are constant, and have been on-going since the rise of the first plants and insects. This co-evolution process has developed symbiotic relationships- both good (commensalism) and bad (predation/parasitism) depending on whose side you’re on. The relationships we’ll see are between insects,…

The goals of this study was to find interactions between the goldenrods that had the gall and the ones that where besides them but without the gall. There were 15 pairs and each pair where cut from the bottom and all the fifteen pairs where find in the same area and this could cause less variation in the data. When comparing the means of the goldenrods flowers the ones that had the gall weighs more than the ones without the gall and this could been since there are insects parasitizing the gall…

public exposure to toxic chemicals. The EPA has also attempted to establish buffer zones around treated fields to reduce risks from acute inhalation exposure to bystanders. In 2005 there was a report of a pesticide known as, chloropicrin (a chemical warfare agent and component of tear gas), drifting about 1 mile past the buffer zone. The haze floated away from a strawberry field, into a residential area, causing dozens of people to become ill. This case is one of many examples showing how buffer…

In 1983, the Cold War was in a heightened stated. Early in the year, Ronald Reagan gave his famous Evil Empire speech as justification for deploying NATO nuclear-armed missiles. The SDI or “Star Wars” plan was a sign of heightening tensions between the NATO countries and the Warsaw Pact ones. Other events, like the Soviet downing of Korean Airlines 007, Massive Nuclear Protests in Europe and the Able Archer exercises, were further signs of rising Cold War tensions. It was in this atmosphere that…

The Things they carried O’Brien’s story depicts a platoon of soldiers during the Vietnam War. The soldiers carry equipment, rations, weapons and personal items with them. Some of those items are a necessity such as the P-38 can openers, heat tabs, dog tags, ammunition, C-rations, guns and cigarettes. These are physical objects with a real measurable weight. O’Brien narrates the events and paints a picture of the burdens we do not see. Those invisible burdens the characters carry, are the…

Codenamed the “Manhattan Project,” the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War 2 was the single-biggest military construction project in history (The Atomic Bombings, n.d.). Responsible for approximately 200,000 casualties, the atomic bomb left a path of total destruction and devastation in these two major Japanese cities (The Atomic Bombings, n.d.). It was the only time nuclear weapons had been used on civilization, which gave us a true idea of what the effects…