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“According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way that a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyways. Because bees don't care what humans think is impossible,” (Bee). This popular quote exemplifies the supposed impossibility of flight; it was utterly unthinkable until the late nineteenth century. Humans have been fascinated with the idea of flight since the dawn of time. There is evidence of this…

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…

It would be detrimental for honeybees to work independently within a colony for the bee population. Starting at six days old, young bees start to feed younger larvae in their hive. The adult bees do other tasks such as scavenging for the other honeybees. In a hive, there is no simple hierarchy, unlike human beings who have business hierarchies for large businesses. Each bee does something to benefit another bee. The queen may be valuable, because there is only one in each hive, but the queen…

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,…

Ziziphus mauritiana and the Muzarabani community. Wild fruits are widely managed and utilised in different parts of the world. In semi-arid region the dependence on the fruits vary from region to region. In semi-arid regions which are prone to natural hazards like Muzarabani have for years relied on wild fruits’ like Ziziphus mauritiana despite, the reliance of the people of the muzarabani community on Ziziphus mauritiana , serious academic considerations of Ziziphus mauritiana as is an…

ANT COLONY OTIMIZATION basics and algorithm 3.1. ACO algorithm introduction and basics The concept of ACO has been inspired by observation of real ants while wondering for food source. An ant while in search of food source lays a certain amount of pheromone trail along the path traversed. The laying of pheromone serves dual purpose to the ant. Firstly, it marks the path for other randomly moving aunts and secondly, it helps the aunt to return to its original source. Now, whenever a redundantly…

Question 1 1.1) Hemichordates share some characters with echinoderms and chordates. Pharyngeal slits they share with chordates. Hemichordates are the sister taxon to echinoderms as described by Ambulacraria hypothesis, then gill slits are an ancestral feature for deuterostomes. These gill slits are supposedly lost in in lineage but some researchers have found evidence for gill slits in extinct carpoid echinoderms. The Ambulacraria hypothesis unites echinoderms and hemichordates on the basis of a…

External features of Pigeon – Morphology – *The body of pigeon is spindle shaped (Fig.20.1) having a size of 20-25 cm. *The body is divisible into head, neck, trunk and tail. *The body is covered by backwardly directed…

1. What is alula? - Alula is a set of feathers on the first digit of birds which permits a slot on the wing. 2. What is crop milk? – Crop milk is a secretion from the lining of crop of parent…

Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.), also known as Redgram, is an economically and nutritionally important grain legume crop belonging to the Cajaninae sub-tribe of the tribe Phaseoleae under sub-family Papilionoideae of family Leguminosae. Considering the vast natural genetic diversity in the germplasm and the presence of many wild relatives, India is considered as the primary center of origin of pigeonpea (Van der Maesen, 1980). It is one of the hardy, drought tolerant and important pulse…