Insect repellent

It is evident that our world today is suffering from a large amount of environmental problems due to a number of people being careless towards the environment along with not using our resources wisely. From global warming, pollution, waste disposal, and overpopulation, these are just a few of the problems our world is currently facing. One environmental problem located in California is the bees, as they are dying at a fast rate. In an article titled “No Bees, No Food” published on the…

There are around 25 species of roaches in the state of Alabama. A common roach is the American roach or also known as Periplaneta americana.They are in the kingdom of animalia. They have the nickname of the water bug. Although they are not aquatic The American is originally for Africa and migrated here hundreds of years ago. Their original habitat for american roaches were in hot and humid places but have adapted to cold places. Americans are a reddish brown color with antenna. Females have…

No Bats in the Belfry: The Origin of White-Nose Syndrome in Little Brown Bats Kelsey Prickett BIO 108 Caroline Solomon February 4, 2016 In 2006, a disease called White-nose syndrome (WNS) was discovered. This disease was developed by a Pseudogymnoascus destructans fungus (Dechaine & Johnson, 2014). The P.destructans is a cold-growing fungus (Hayman et al., 2016). This type of a disease is a significant threat to bats in the United States. White-nose syndrome had been spreading…

I went camping with my friends I saw a bee hive and started studying bees. Honey bees are much to busy to bother people or animals. All insects have six legs, three main body parts, a pair of antennae, compound eyes, jointed legs, and a hard exokeleton. The three main body parts are the head, thorax (middle part of the body) and abdomen (back part of the body). Honey bees are only about 3/4 of an inch long. Honey bees are reddish-brown and black with orange-yellow rings on there back.…

genetics behind certain traits through to use of dihybrid crosses. With the crosses, the purpose was to find the different dominant and recessive traits in the eyes and wings of the Drosophila. Flies were used to study the genetics as opposed to other insects or animals because they are easy to mass-produce and the traits, when viewed under a microscope, are easily identifiable. The hypothesis was that the traits of sepia eyes and apterous wings were autosomal recessive. Procedure The procedure…

In attempting to determine whether wild hummingbirds are able to learn the refill schedules of flowers based on facilitated colour cues, Samuels, Hurly & Healy (2014) found that hummingbirds in the cued conditions were better and faster at discriminating between the refill intervals. They performed this study since there are not many studies which look at interval timing outside a controlled laboratory environment, as well as not many which remove other cues that may facilitate learning in the…

The honeybee’s immense value comes about from its ability to pollinate flowers and crops to promote a healthy and sufficient harvest. This harvest is key for agriculturally dependent countries such as the United States, whose agriculture industry is worth upwards of $200 billion. Bees are a noticeably important factor in maintaining this agriculture, so important that in June of 2014, the president of the United States developed the Pollinator Health Task-Force, run by the USDA and the EPA (U.S…

The reading of the will was short. No relatives, few possessions, hardly any money. Most of it went to Laurel; the rest to a local charity. She took the boxes full of books and trinkets and the weight of it reminded her of the funeral on the boat, the moments before she said goodbye. This wasn’t something they prepared you for. The fact that death left behind a thousand little goodbyes. It was hardly final. It was something that you need to spill out again and again. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.…

Summary This essay begins by introducing the problem of declining bee populations and its significance. Varroa mites are discussed as a primary cause of declining bee populations. Next she discusses challenges to conventional forms of pest management including the Varroa mites development of resistances to traditional stand alone chemical treatments. Considering the limitations of conventional pest management, she then looks at some researchers, including Monsanto, and their attempts to use…

One reason why we decided to use fruit fly’s for our project is that they share many of the same genetics with humans. “Fruit flies share 75% of the genes that cause disease with humans,” which can help scientists discover new diseases very quickly. (Service) Along with that, fruit flies are very low maintenance creatures. With them being very low maintenance, researchers and scientists can have millions of them at a time to work with. As in our class, we also had large amounts of flies to…