Pupa

Introduction Fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster that is used as a model to study genetics for more than a hundred years. Thomas Hunt Morgan, in the early 1900’s, used the heritable traits of a common species of fruit fly to develop our understanding of genetics. Morgan was the first to show through experiments that genes were located on chromosomes. He also found that certain fruit fly traits like eye color are found on the same chromosomes that also determine their sex. Fruit flies have several…

gentlemen I present to you automaton-phobia. Anyone afraid of ventriloquist dummies, wax dummies, scarecrows, and so on have this fear. In short someone with this fear can’t handle anything that falsely represents a sentient being. A sister fear to this is pupa-phobia, the fear of puppets and marionettes. Usually to treat this you go through different therapies to minimize certain aspects of the fear that get in the way of your daily life. Unfortunately there’s no conclusive…

Forensic Entomology Forensic Entomology is the study of insects and arthropods which help aid the legal system. This includes insects, arachnids, centipedes, millipedes, and crustaceans most commonly maggots are used. Forensic entomology can not only aid in murder investigations but it can also be used to detect abuse of children and the elderly, to determine the location of the crime scene if the body had been moved, termite damage or even bugs in food. History Forensic Entomology was first…

This is not a zine for our racist Asian parents. We didn’t design Cocoon with the intent of converting internet neo-nazis into socially conscious feminists, nor for the purpose of turning people who unironically call people “sjw’s” into the people they used to call “sjw’s.” This is no feminist evangelism; we’re not attempting to call sinners to repent of their casual racism at the altar of anti-oppression. Ultimately, this zine is not for them — this zine is for us. It’s for all my friends who…

If the rain was only shocked the spring of flying, do not know how to chance their location, even if it is never moist the earth. If the cocoon in the pupa only enjoy the current comfortable, do not know how to change, not to struggle, even if it is never a beautiful butterfly. Everything is so, people are so. Only to change themselves, only to fit the survival of the fittest. In the speech, the Red Man…

Sammy chased after it with a broom in one hand and a handbook of lepidoptery in the other”(Chabon, 372). In this passage, the symbol of the insect comes up once again to symbolize Sammy’s sexuality. Since Sammy had priorly described his dreams as a pupa struggling for freedom, this means that for Sammy to complete his transformational escapism, he will have to therefore accept his…

The affected phenotype in the mutant hot cheeto is the bristles. The affected bristles are gnarled, dark, and bending to the side of the scutum. The tip of these bristles look melted. The sizzled appearance of the phenotype makes the name of hot cheeto appropriate for this mutant. The bristles of the wild type Drosophila melanogaster are long, slick, and black. The posterior scutellar bristles in D. melanogaster are two long bristles attached to the end of the scutellum and projected in an…

What the Buzz? Over the last 28 years, the United States bee population has dropped by around one million. In 1989 the United States reached a peak of 3.5 million bee colonies, whereas today we are sitting at around 2.6 million. While the effects are evident, the cause behind them is not. There are many factors believed to be aiding the decline of the bee population, however no one participant can take all the blame. One of the most commonly sought reasons for their decline relates to new…

on the biology and life cycle of bostrichid beetles have been done with mostly concentrating on economically important species (Liu et al., 2008). Typically, the bostrichid beetle undergoes complete metamorphosis with four life stages – egg, larva, pupa and adult. Eggs are laid in crack and cervices of sawn lumber or logs. Larva hatch and bore ¼ inch into the wood. Tunnels are filled with tightly packed, fine sawdust-like materials. Pupation happens at the end of the tunnel. Once the adults…

“The Metamorphosis” is beset by a tone of deep despair. Gregor, a human in the background, an animal in reality, is the main protagonist of this novella. Gregor’s transformation underlines the clout of a person’s love to their family, and the fallibility of families love to a single being within their group. Gregor’s love for his family is undeniably dynamic. His readiness to support his family regardless of the pain is admirable. For example, his loathing of the Chief, yet his refusal to…