Insect repellent

Orchis simia is a white-grey and pink colored orchid. Its labellum is shaped like a monkey; complete with four limbs and a tail. It inhabits limestone terrain, grassy and woodland areas. It is spread throughout central to southern Europe, the Mediterranean and North Africa. One third of all orchid species are deceptive, O. simia is no exception; it is nectarless and relies on food deception to attract pollinators. One of O. simia’s known pollinators is the Cidnopus pilosus beetle (Schatz 2006).…

Ashley Kuroki Science 9/8/15 Insect Olympiad Jigsaw Group B: The Difference between Problematic Insects Moths and butterflies- Moths and butterflies don’t have that many differences. However, moths have feathery antennae while the butterflies have thin antennae. Moths are nocturnal and butterflies are active during the day. Those are the main differences. Even though butterflies have better looking wings than a moth’s, there are some moths that look exactly like a butterfly like the Madagascan…

not used on crops. Crops currently lose 20-40 percent with pesticides being used. As explained by CropLife Canada in their article Why do we need pesticides? It is stated “ Weeds compete with crops for water, nutrients, sunlight and space, while insects and diseases can eat away at crops and either entirely destroy them or make them unable to grow. Pesticides are one option – and sometimes the only option – for controlling these nasty pests.”(Why do we need…

Introduction “Swedish Scientists Say Mead May Be the Key to Fight Antibiotic-resistant Pathogens" written by the WTOP Staff and published on their website, believe that with the right honey and preparations they can get rid of the more resistant pathogens. In this article, Swedish scientists believe that honey and lactic acids that are found in honey bees can be an alternate source other than normal medication for antibiotic-resistant pathogens. With support testing, they have found that they…

On any given day, millions of Americans flock to grocery stores, farmers markets, or even their own gardens for food to sustain us. Similarly, on any given day, millions and millions of bees are buzzing over our flowering crops, pollenating them for reproduction. What we often forget to realize is that bees are responsible for the production of almost one third of our food. Bees boast an overwhelming 4,000 species’ in the United States, and these bees, particularly honey bees, pollenate around…

Bees are the most important providers of ecosystem services globally(Roubik, 2006) with an estimated 20,000-30,000 species worldwide; as they are also important indicators of biodiversity. They have co- evolutionary relationships with plants and therefore their services are inevitable for the maintenance of the life cycles of many plant species(Sasidharan & Kunhikannan, 2007). Stingless bees (referred to as meliponine bees) are important pollinators and also valued for the honey they produce.…

In The Metamorphosis, a novel by Franz Kafka, the protagonist Gregor Samsa Wakes up to realize he is an insect. The tragedy of a working man that maintains his family and that later turns into a useless insect can symbolize the typical male figures worst nightmare, being unable to support his family financially. The figure of an insect can symbolize a similar “disease” that the protagonist on “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman was suffering from. In the “Gender and Pathology In…

controversial) almost trespassed the barriers of being just brother and sister(specially on how Gregor felt towards his sister). Gregor immensely enjoyed when Grete played the violin both in his human form as in his insect form. His biggest wish after being transformed into an insect was that his sister played some music for him, he dreamt with that moment. Sadly for him, it never happened. Although Grete loved him (at least in part one and the first and second part of the novella) she never…

CHAPTER 4 PSO AND GA TECHNIQUE 4.1 Moth Flame Optimization In the proposed MFO algorithm, I assumed that the candidate solutions are moths and the problem’s variables are the position of moths in the space. Therefore, the moths can fly in 1-D, 2-D, 3-D, or hyper dimensional space with changing their position vectors. Since the MFO algorithm is a population-based algorithm. It should be noted here that moths and flames are both solutions. The difference between them is the way we treat and…

Both birds and bats both have a trait that enables them to fly. Bats: The bats wings enables it to get a food eat and survive. Bats eat small moving insects to survive. The ability to catch these small moving insects keeps it alive. The specially designed wings is the only trait that does this job. Therefore because they rely on small moving insects for…