Pupa

which include the head, the thorax, and the abdomen. On males, the bottom half of the abdomen is black, while on the female, each segment of the abdomen is striped black. Drosophila have four main stages to their life cycle. These include: egg, larva, pupa and adult. The eggs small and translucent eggs take about one day to hatch after they have been laid. Next larva are formed. Larvae crawl through the food, eating and growing as they go, and later go through three molts only to climb up and…

How Kafka and Lindqvist Deal with Change and Separation In the novels “Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka and “Handling the Undead” by John Lindqvist the characters in the stories must deal with several issues that occur with the transformation of a loved one. When the transformations first occur in both novels there are those who are revolted by it and there are those who are accepting of the transformation even though they don’t understand it and they are very disturbed by it. As both novels…

cuticles, mouths, heads, hooks, and spiracles. During the third instars of the larvae, they climb into a dark area to pupate. As the larval skin darkens and hardens, a pupa case is made. This is called the pupal stage. The pupal case is about 8mm in length. During this stage, the flies undergo metamorphosis. Flies can stay in the pupa stage for three to six days. After metamorphosis, the flies than climb out of the operculum, the front part of the puparium. At this point, the fly has entered its…

The invertebrate family is a group of species that don’t exactly have a spine. The mealworm start off as an egg, then once they hatch, they turn into a larva. This is the stage that they look like worms. After living like a larva, they turn into a pupa. Then they turn into a dark mealworm beetle.…

Viruses (brood) Black Queen Cell Virus (brood) Sacbrood Virus (both) Slow Bee Paralysis Virus (both) Acute Bee Paralysis Virus (adult) Bee Virus X (adult) Bee Virus Y (adult) Deformed Wing Virus (adult) Chronic Bee Paralysis Virus (adult) Apis Iridescent Virus Fungi (brood) Stone Brood (brood) Chalkbrood (Adult) Nosema Apis and Nosema Ceranae Nosema inhibits the bee’s stomach and digestive system. It spreads through a colony through regurgitation which occurs when bees process honey…

For this lab we conducted a population genetics study on the frequency of wild and apterous flies within a small population of fruit flies. The fruit fly Drosophila works well for genetic and evolutionary geared studies because they have a relatively short generation time but are intricate enough to reveal some biological principles that are parallel to many different kinds of eukaryotic organisms. When exposed to artificial selection in laboratory experiments, fruit flies have experienced…

The Spotted Wing Drosophila, (SWD) scientifically known as Drosophila suzukii Matsumura, is not your average fruit fly. Going by multiple aliases such as the cherry fruit fly or the cherry vinegar fly, the SWD has made a rather unattractive name for itself. The Spotted Wing Drosophila’s Taxonomic Tree is as follows: Domain: Eukaryota, Kingdom: Metazoa, Phylum: Arthropoda, Subphylum: Uniramia, Class: Insect, Order: Diptera, Family: Drosophilidae, Genus: Drosophila, and Specieis: Drosophila…

Background: The bottle ecosystem created contains three compartments. It includes an aquatic habitat at the bottom, a filter in the center, and a terrestrial habitat at the top. The aquatic habitat included guppies, shrimp, a snail, and elodea. The filter was composed of a layer of fine sand, coarse sand, activated carbon, and gravel. The terrestrial habitat in our bottle ecosystem featured mealworms, a mealworm beetle, annual bluegrass, and purslane. In the aquatic habitat, the aquatic plant…

eggs, then the eggs mature into three larval stages. The first stage is called the 1st instar larva, the second is 2nd instar larva, and the thirst is 3rd instar larva. On day eight, it is expected that the larva encases into pupa. Six days later, the fly encloses from the pupa. Finally, the flies mate ten hours after the enclosing…

small numbers at his home. When he learned there was a market for “farmed” butterflies for sale to Universities and Zoos, Boender established MetaScience Co., a commercial butterfly farm, in 1984. The staff at MetaScience produced up to 1000 butterfly pupa per week, and established methods of…