Larva

From larva to a majestic winged monarch butterfly, the transformation a caterpillar undergoes in its quest to become a butterfly is truly unique. In such process a sixteen legged pest morphs into a beautiful butterfly. Though a beautiful sight, what a caterpillar actually goes through on this journey is quite gruesome. Many wonder how this 180 degree transformation is possible, but broken down it is much simpler to comprehend. Monarch butterflies lay their milky white eggs on milkweed, insuring…

This year on Father’s Day my children took me to the Brevard Zoo. I was very excited to go, for this would be my first time seeing it. I have lived in Brevard county over twenty years of my life and somehow never managed the time to visit . A zoo is a place where different kinds of animals are kept and maintained with purpose of Educating the public about the varieties of animals and birds that exist all over the world, including our country. On our visit I observed that by going to the zoo,…

{{Info fauna |officialname = Eartheater Skall |nicknames = Settlement Mauler |classification = Annelid |habitat = Ellador |domesticated = No. |status = Rare. |}} A Dwarven settlement sprawling from mountain peak to horizon crumpling to debree, lay ruin by an Eartheater Skall who caverned chambers that inflicted a cave in. The Eartheater Skall is a critter native to Ellador, with white, matted fur and tissue dense enough to endure the ragged drag of the underearth it resides in. Found in…

It takes the Drosophila flies 24 hours after fertilization to go from an embryo to larva. The larva will eat and then continue to grow, taking about 6-8 days to become a pupa. During this phase, the pupa will undergo metamorphosis and change into an adult fly. The adult fly can live up to 8 weeks, which makes the perfect candidate for research…

A pathogen is simply a microorganism that causes disease. Lyme Disease is caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi and is carried by ticks, and “as a result of a complicated sequence of events, people have become frequent accidental hosts for ticks and the disease agents they carry”. This connection is present because of the interaction between plant and animal species, or furthermore, the ecology of ecosystems, where both ticks and humans are present [Source: Ostfeld]. Symptoms of being…

Antennae - Used primarily to sense smell, but can also detect wind speed and touch. Eyes - Large, immovable compound eyes detect light. Each eye has thousands of lenses. Mouth - Sheep Moths do not have any working mouthparts. Other organisms in the Sheep Moth’s habitat include Mountain Bluebirds, Golden Eagles, Montane Shrews, Long-tailed Weasles, Elk, and other mountain meadow-dwelling creatures A mountain meadow consists of grasses and flowering plants on a mountainside, and typically has a…

intestine and these pass out in the stools. The eggs hatch in the soil and mud, into young worms (larvae- singular - larva) .It is the larvae which infest the child (person). Each larva is capable of penetrating the skin of a person. Therefore, if a child (person) walks barefooted in an area where there are such larvae, they will penetrate the person's feet and ankles. The point at which the larva enters the skin becomes sore. From the skin, the larvae go to the bloodstream to the heart…

trichinosis is Trichinella spiralis, which is found in many carnivorous and omnivorous animals. The disease occurs when a human ingests an undercooked piece of meat, then the larva gets released into the small intestine, which then grows into an adult inside the small intestine, then releases its larva into the mucosa, and the larva becomes encysted in the striated muscle (book). Trichinosis is not contagious among humans unless someone eats the infected muscle (PhD, C. P.). This outbreak could…

In any plant or crop you are going to have to deal with the common diseases and insects that go along with it. A few common diseases of corn are: Stewart’s Bacterial Wilt, Root Rot, Corn Smut, and Southern Corn Leaf Blight. Stewart's Bacterial Wilt is a disease that affects corn at any stage of the growing period. Although, this particular wilt is most harmful when sweet corn is at a very young stage. This disease causes wilting and dwarfing of the plants and the plant will most likely never…

Kathleen Tan September 4, 2017 Ms. Mc Nierney Period 7 Survival of the Sickest by Dr. Sharon Moalem Big Idea 1: The process of evolution drives the diversity and unity of life. Passage 1: “In Europe, they used fermentation — and the resulting alcohol killed microbes, even when, as was often the case, it was mixed with water. On the other side of the world, people purified their water by boiling it and making tea. As a result, there was evolutionary pressure in Europe to have the ability…