Insects

Disorder affecting bees and what it could mean for the plants and animals reliant on pollinators. Just recently, bees became the newest addition to endangered species list causing increased concern over the vitality of our ecosystems if the humble insect were to be eradicated altogether. While few news organizations have written about the placement of bees on the list, one article from the Washington Post divulges further information about the future of bees. According to the article, bees…

chapter with the major motif of bees, to provide insights in to the events of each chapter, and to accentuate the ideas about women and mothers that resonate throughout the entire story. Chapter four begins by saying that “’Honeybees are social insects and live in colonies. Each colony is a family unit, comprising a single, egg-laying female or queen and her many sterile daughters called workers. The workers cooperate in the food-gathering, nest-building and rearing the offspring. Males are…

INTRODUCTION In this report, I present a summary of five major arthropod groups. The three groups chosen for this report are Trilobitomorpha, Crustacea and Insecta. Like my previous report, I have organized this report to provide a general summary of these groups, and also to examine a number of fossil specimens belonging to each group. For each group, ten specimens belonging to a specific sub-group (and a specific stratigraphic range when possible) were selected from the GB3D Type Fossils…

The terminology used to portray insects is like that utilized for different arthropods because of their common developmental history. Three physical highlights isolate insects from different arthropods: they have a body separated into three locales (head, thorax, and mid-region). There is tremendous variety in body structure among insect species. These variety enable insects to involve relatively every environmental specialty on the planet, aside from the profound sea and the Antarctic. Because…

eight pattern. The Hummingbirds feet are not used for hopping or walking, but perching. Hummingbirds are basically like bees, going around and sucking the nectar from flowers with their long, skinny beaks. They mainly eat flower nectar, tree sap, insects and pollen. Also, their long tongues help them lick their food at a rate of thirteen licks per second. Hummingbirds weigh 0.08 to 0 .7 ounces and they are 1.75 to 1.8 inches in length. Female hummingbirds lay between one to three eggs and…

you’re an herbivore, particularly for us insects.” I’m a Green Stinkbug (Nezara viridula). I’ll guide you through some of current battles between us and plants. These battles are constant, and have been on-going since the rise of the first plants and insects. This co-evolution process has developed symbiotic relationships- both good (commensalism) and bad (predation/parasitism) depending on whose side you’re on. The relationships we’ll see are between insects, plants, parasitoids (nasty things!)…

Bees are a very important part of everyday life and hold major impacts on agriculture, especially in the dispersing of seeds, the flourishing of flowers, and how they are being replenished by wildfires. Most bees are not actually tree dwellers; some actually prefer to burrow in warm soil. Besides being warm, the best soil must be rich in minerals and have plenty of available space. Which is why wildfires affect them more, they are not in the trees, but rather on the ground. In recent years,…

near-extinction. Carson observed after a survey had proved that the dead fishes had DDT in their tissues, that there are more effective means of checking the overpopulation of forest insect other than spraying. She pointed out that natural parasitism, the method of introducing an enemy insect of the targeted insect into the forest, could be employed. The introduction of harmful chemicals to solve a problem is in itself a problem, thus, we should invest in researches to come out with better and…

Lab. First of all, there is Tarantula Spider. Tarantulas diet including grasshoppers, beetles, and other spiders. Vertebrates, such as rats, toads, snakes, frogs and lizards may fall into a tarantula depends on the species. Arboreal species feed on insects, moths and frogs. Although they have silk manufacturing capability, most tarantulas don't knit air network to capture prey. Instead, they use ambush strategies or find food at night. According to the species, most of the Wolf spider hidden in…

Insects are biologically more similar to vertebrates than some people realise, making them incredibly conducive to testing. Some insects, such as moths and fruit flies, are able to respond to microbial infection in the same way that mammals have been shown to respond. It is for this reason that insects can be used to test the efficiency of new drugs, and decrease the need for animal testing. To elaborate…