Insect repellent

It’s the little things in life that can make someone's day from bad to them actually have a superior day. There is an indefinite number of things someone can do in nature that can make their day better instantly. Whether it be planting a garden in your own background, going on a nature walk, or even bird watching, these are just a few of the things someone could do. Imagine taking a nature walk through the nearby woods, there is so many different things you can admire whether it being flowers…

Flea beetles are pest of brassicaes, creating holes in the leaves and stems of seedlings. The seedlings are highly attacked as soon as they surface above the ground level and the damage of these beetles are very pronounced on young plants and even cause plant death. Some flea beetles are general feeders, others attack only particular types of plant. The flea beetle has a narrow host range to plants primarily in the brassicaceae. Most of the flea beetles prefer cruciferous plants which produce…

The Fly Vile, repulsive, and yet ultimately benign; this is the life of a fly. In the Poem “The Fly” Karl Shapiro defines the operations of a mundane housefly in exorbitant detail. From searching for a mate to burying maggots in the dermis of a corpse to the fly’s demise, Shapiro holds no stray detail of the fly’s being from the reader. Karl Shapiro utilizes imagery and figurative language to express the underlying beauty and repulsion of an otherwise benign fly. First, Shapiro utilizes…

Boyd Hill Nature Preserve is now one of my favorite places in St. Petersburg! This field trip was a nice break from the fast-paced urban lifestyle that I have been living since moving away from home. Our excursion began at the bird-of-prey aviary. There were several types of birds at the aviary: eastern screech owls, turkey vultures, barred owls, great horned owls, and a bald eagle, to name a few. At the aviary, I learned that barred owls are best known for a call that sounds like, "Who cooks…

Bee’s are a very vital part to our world, and how it functions. They are the reason our flowers grow, and why the world has life. They keep the world green using a process called pollination. The bees do this by taking some of the pollen out of the the flower they get their nectar from and sprinkle it onto other flowers to make them grow. As you know the way that we get fresh air is from the trees through a process called photosynthesis. Without bees this process would not be possible, because…

needed termite pest control in Frisco, TX. Called the “silent destroyers,” termites can tear through homes in a short amount of time by chewing through wood and other materials that are used to construct them. One of the biggest problems with the tiny insects is that they can infest a home so stealthily that homeowners often don’t know they have them until extensive damage has already been done. Believe it or not, termites possess a variety of characteristics that not only make them quite…

1) Ans: The two proximate level reasons for hunting mostly orb-web building spiders. 1)The structure of the web: There is a chance of getting stuck in cob-web building spiders rather than orb-web building spiders. This is because orb-web building spider builds 2D structure of web and cob-web building spider builds 3D structure of web. It is easy for a mud-dauber wasp to hunt orb-web building spider as its web is not so complicated in order to get stuck in it. Where as cob-web building spiders…

yet the primary factor is a class of insecticide chemicals acknowledged as neonicotinoids or neonics. The neonic pesticide is beneficial for various farmers because their crops remained shielded and unharmed from "sap-sucking" and "leaf-chewing" insects ("What Farmers Need to Know About Neonicotinoid Pesticides", 1). However, neonics have acute, harmful effects to bees when initially applied and they can also persist in the environment for years, causing long-term chronic damage as well (Ellis…

There are various types of insects in this planet, Earth. To survive in this planet, each bugs uses adaptation, which makes each insects unique and special. The definition of adaptation is “the ability of a species to survive in a particular ecological niche, …especially through natural selection.” (Dictionary.com) Through all the ‘adaptation skill’ that bugs use, this particular insect mentioned in article, Podisus maculiventris, uses a special skill when laying the egg. Podisus maculiventris,…

What the Buzz? Over the last 28 years, the United States bee population has dropped by around one million. In 1989 the United States reached a peak of 3.5 million bee colonies, whereas today we are sitting at around 2.6 million. While the effects are evident, the cause behind them is not. There are many factors believed to be aiding the decline of the bee population, however no one participant can take all the blame. One of the most commonly sought reasons for their decline relates to new…