Insect repellent

adaption by contributing to its fitness and improving its chances of surviving, by increasing the amount of preys captured. Adaptations of lid size combined with nectar glands which attract insects, and a wax crystal surface underneath the lid which reduces friction make the N. gracilis lid an effective device for its insect trapping mechanism (Bauer et al., 2015). Therefore, there is a correlation between trait and fitness, in which the trait contributes to the organism’s fitness by enhancing…

Swarm behavior is one of the main characteristics of different colonies of social insects (bees, wasps, ants, termites). This type of behavior is first and foremost characterized by autonomy, distributed functioning and self-organizing. Swarm Intelligence, SI, is considered to be the area of Artificial Intelligence that is based on studying actions of individuals in various decentralized systems~\cite{bonabeau1999}. However, there is still today big discrepancy between two schools of thought in…

HOW TO GET RID OF BED BUGS FAST Bed bugs are flat, small and wingless insects that mostly feed on blood. You can find them in homes and you can easily transport them to different places through luggage, clothing and furniture. These tiny insects hide easily from view during the day when they are not active. Their preferred habitat is usually our homes. They hide in mattresses, bed frames and bedding, furniture, carpets, clothing and other household furniture. Bed bugs are parasites that operate…

Flies, such as the common housefly look at the world in quite a different way than humans do. The structure and function of a fly's eye are completely different from humans; therefore they see the motion, shapes and colors differently than humans. Flies also see the light in a different way than humans. Nano-structure of the eyes that gives the ability of a virtually 360 degree all direction vision with only two eyes placed at the front of the head. Military pilots like helicopters and fighter…

Peafowl are exotic, beautiful birds. Most people are not educated about peafowl; most people don’t even know what the word peafowl means. Peafowl is the general term when talking about the peacock, peahen, or peachick. The peacock is the male, the peahen is the female, and peachick is the baby. People that do not raise peafowl nor educated in peafowl know what it takes to produce high quality feathers or chicks, that there is more than one variety of peafowl, nor do they know peacocks molt.…

1. In the article “ The great Poop Disaster” by Anna Starcheski, there are problems with bird poop and they also had solutions. One of the main problems in the article is, there are too many birds in one area. The article says, “ In New York City, for instance, the pigeon population was estimated to be as high as 7 million birds.” ( Starcheski,18) A solution to solve this problem would be to ban people from feeding birds. This would affect the population in a certain area because not as many…

Introduction Evolution is the process in which organisms change from one generation to the next over a period of time. The Hardy-Weinberg equation is one of the most popular ways to determine if a certain trait within a population is changing. The Hardy-Weinberg equation provides a null-hypothesis to compare to the observation of the population. One can predict the outcome of the estimated amount of offspring in a population by using two alleles to determine which will be present in future…

Both the reading passage and the listening lecture are discussing methods to eliminate cane toads from their new environments in Australia. The writer asserts that there have been successful method in getting rid of the cane toads from the sugar cane fields of Australia. However, the lecturer disagrees with the writer's opinion by claiming that the three methods were not successful at all. First, the author claims that humans physically capturing and killing the cane toads has been effective.…

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 plant gets nutrients from insects! Sarracenia traps water into its pitchers turning it into a digestive juice that bugs get trapped in. Sarracenia is a very attractive plant, and this is why it catches so many bugs. They have been known to trap birds, humming birds, frogs,…

This year we started by reading the book the secret life of bees. We then learned how to write a story using hero’s Journey. Once we finished that we went on with debating. We read the story of 12 angry men and we started to LD debate. While we were covering the Story of “ The Secret life of Bees” I learned a lot about bees and about the Jim Crow law. I learned that there are many types of bees in a hive. For example the queen bee. She lives for about 3 years and lays all of the eggs in the…