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    How has Mothman come to be? Mothman was first spotted at Point Pleasant West Virginia. He was spotted by two young couples in the middle of the night. The paper says this “The first newspaper report to mention the Mothman was published in the West Virginia Point Pleasant Register on 16th November 1966 titled "Couples See Man-Sized Bird...Creature...Something". There were more than a hundred sightings up until December 15, 1967 when the Silver Bridge collapsed into the Ohio river during rush hour…

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    Campaigns and hashtags featuring phrases such as “save the bees” and “bring back the bees” have been flooding social media and covering all types of products lately. Brands, such as Honey Nut Cheerios with their disappearing Buzz the bee mascot, have recently began encouraging citizens of the world to contribute to saving honeybees so they will not face extinction. However, are the companies misinforming society on the real status of the bees? On the Cheerios’ website, two specifically…

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    Social Themes In The Bees

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    A major theme in the novel “The Bees” is an individual’s inherent role in society and their ranking or class-level within that society. This theme can also be seen as an allegory for the different social class distinctions that exist in human society as well as the author’s perspective on the lives of real bees and their possibly social hierarchy and “hive mind” within their hives. The novel follows a young bee named Flora 717, with her name indicating her “kin” or social class level and her…

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    Scorpion Lab Report

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    In comparison, arachnids and insects usually have multiple pairs of legs on one body segment. The Ten-lined June Beetle does show sexual dimorphism. When comparing males and females, the greatest contrast appears in their antennae. Males appear to have larger antennae than females…

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    In the Batewood Park environment, I noticed on arrival that there were few shrubberies or flowers, but there was an abundance of a variety trees. There was a playground, a picnic, table, basketball court, and other things added from humans, which causes the park environment overall to be different than that of a forest that is not impacted specifically from humans. I sat in the grass near the picnic tables and an oak tree, close enough to where I could observe ants under the picnic tables, bees…

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    Progress summary With the termination of sterile insect technique efforts to limit the spread of Argentine Cactus Moth, Cactoblastis 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…

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    The global cause to protect these insects from scientist, politicians, global leaders, corporations, and organizations have started to campaign to save this species from extinction. “The CCD Steering Committee was formed with the charge to help coordinate a federal response to address this…

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    Honey Bees Reaction

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    I chose Honey Bee for our project because I recently watched the Bee Movie, and from that movie I got into thinking if what the writers of the movie are really true about bees. Also recently when I was in the restroom washing my hands there was a bee came in and started flying, so I smacked it and it died. Since I was bored that time, I tried to dissect it, but I did not know what each of parts’ purpose. And since all bees are important to all living things because of its pollute will affect the…

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    piece that strongly encourages the consumption of insects in our meals. Why? Because we may be facing a crisis as meat could disappear in the close future, Goodyear notes. When this happens, it will be a worldwide problem and will most certainly create conflicts among countries. “World War Three will be over control of water and food”. (39) Because of this constant threat of running out of aliments, why not replace meat with, well, meat? “The insects may be an answer”. (39) The purpose of…

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    Honey Bee Pollination

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    Approximately one-third of the food and beverages produced rely on honey bee pollination. As the honey bee population declines as a result of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), a phenomenon that causes honey bees to flee their hive and eventually die during the winter months, the agricultural industry in the United States faces an economic loss nearing $20-30 billion dollars. The population decline has been attributed to many factors such as the parasitic Varroa mite, different types of viruses,…

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