animal, plants, and other organisms to thrive for generations. All organisms have to reproduce, otherwise their species will simply die out. Out of all of the organisms that reproduce, some of the most interesting include social insects of the Hymenoptera order. Social insects exhibit various interesting traits and strategies that they use for reproduction, such as the formation of a queen, worker reproduction, queen signaling or control, and sexual selection. Many of these traits and strategies
Humans generally hold a cynical perception of ants carrying some dust and crawling on a negligible distance in a courtyard. However, that is one small task for an insect, but one giant leap for the building of the nest. Like social insects, men working together sets up a whole fascinating mechanism. Everyone plays a role in the global society, and one citizen is not microscopic among billion others, as it may be thought. To reinforce that theory, the persuasive essay entitled “On Societies as Organisms”
Have you ever thought about eating bugs? What if you eating dinner at a restaurant and the special was a bug ice cream or steak and bug. We should start eating bugs because our population is eating a lot of cows which is causing global warming. What is causing this to happen are cow emissions and more than half a cow is being wasted every day. Cows also produce a lot of greenhouse gases. One way to address this problem is to eat bugs because bugs can solve world hunger. Eating bugs can also
would be drastically reduced. Due to the high amounts of species from the order Insecta, there are key taxonomic features used to classify different specimens from each other. Insecta consists of ten orders including order Diptera, Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera, Odonta, Orthoptera, Blattodea, Mantodea, Phasmatodea, Coleoptera used to classify organisms in further detail. I have identified a Butterfly and Dragonfly, classed within the orders of Lepidoptera and Odonta. Lepidoptera consists of Butterflies
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Ants belong to an order of insects called Hymenoptera; this group also includes bees, wasps, and sawflies. They belong to the insect family Formicidae meaning ‘ant family’. There are over 60 genre existing in North America comprising hundreds of different species on this continent alone. There are many different kinds of ants all over the world. Some kinds of ants among the best known are: fire ants, army ants, carpenter ants, driver ants, harvester ants, weaver ants, fungus- gardening ants, aphid-
WHAT ARE THESE? Ants are eusocial insects, i.e. They have the highest level of organization of animal sociality, belonging from the family Formicidae and, like the wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera, the third largest order of insects. Ants evolved from wasp-like ancestors in the mid-Cretaceous period between 110 and 130 million years ago and diversified after the rise of flowering plants. More than 12,500 of an estimated total of 22,000 species have been classified. What
uses from which not only the humans but also the ecosystem benefits .My assignment here is on the impact of ants on the ecosystem .Ants belong to: Kingdom – Animalia. Phylum – Arthropoda. Class – Insecta. Order – Hymenoptera. Ants are social insects living in colonies comprised of one or a few queens and many workers. There are different species of ants like black, earth-tone reds , pale tans and the basic browns. Their impacts
and the spiracle.(Spencer 6) Essentially insects are easy to identify as an insect due to their distinct features. Among these features, however, there For example, the honey bee of the kingdom Animalia, phylum Arthropoda, class Insecta, order Hymenoptera, and family level Apidae, is considered a beneficial insect due to their role as pollinators and honey producers. Honey bees are an interesting species due to their partnership tendencies. Honey bees are commonly known as “social insects and live
appears that of all the known animals their way of life appears closest to our human way of life. The similarities in the ways in which we organize our lives are astounding. Ants are doubtlessly the most successful of all the social insects of the Hymenoptera, an order also including wasps and bees. The earliest known specimens are found entombed in the Scandinavian Baltic Amber samples which scientists date in upwards of 100 million years old (The Ant Colony Œ89). These primitive samples have
Since the fateful day in September 1835, when Darwin first reached the Galapagos Islands, and thereafter began theorizing natural selection, evolution has been a hot topic of debate. Most novices to evolutionary biology believe natural selection, logically, is the driving force of evolution, but what many people forget is the complementary force sexual selection. Sexual selection, as opposed to natural selection, is the passing on of traits that help an organism mate rather than just survive, avoiding
Ant like insects have been inhabiting this world for over 130 million years, evolving into the insects that we recognize today from their wasp-like ancestors. Ants are one of the planet’s most successful insect species at adaptability and have even been referred to as super-organisms. Their adaptive success is due to their hive-mind like structure. This hive-mind like structure allows ants to not only defend themselves effectively from predators but it also allows them to exploit resources and modify
Ants do for themselves, but for the good of the entire colony. An ant can lift objects twenty times its own weight that is even bigger than its own size (Pest World For Kids). That’s like a small child lifting a car if they were as strong as an ant. Talk about body builders! These tiny insects resemble termites and in many instances are mistaken for them. Ants are about the size of a small paper clip. They have a narrow waist between their thorax and their abdomen, with big heads and an elbowed antennae
Ants and aphids are two highly common and successful insect groups that often occur in the same habitats which greatly increases their chances of interacting with one another (Stadler and Dixon 2005). The outcome of these interactions can be either negative (predatory) or positive (mutualistic) depending on what each partner can offer to the other (Stadler and Dixon 2005). Mutualism is defined as an interaction between two species that has a reciprocal positive effect on the overall fitness of both
Nepotism is a delicate issue. How can parents not use all of their resources to insure that their children will succeed? Is giving your relative a head start a scandalous violation of our society's conventions? Isn't blood thicker than water (or money)? On the other hand, don't we belong to a free country that gives everybody an equal opportunity? Do you wish to be passed over for a promotion by the unqualified niece of your boss' company? Does relation outweigh merit? Nepotism is a universal trait
Research Project: Class Insecta Insects are invertebrates in the class Insecta from the phylum arthopoda. Arthropods include more than 850,000 species and form by far the largest phylum in the animal kingdom, exceeding in number all the other Phyla combined. The characteristic tough exoskeleton and jointed limbs are superimposed in a segmental body plan that reflects the evolution of arthropods from ancestors of the annelid worm. Insects, arachnids, myriapods and crustaceans are the major groups
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One of the most little known species of ants in North America is the leaf-cutter ant. This is mainly because it lives in tropical environments and it is not aggressive to animals or humans if not disturbed. The leaf cutting ant is a social insect. Alone the ant is virtually helpless but with the colony it can be a thing feared by animal and human alike. The leaf-cutting ants have a very important role in the tropical forest. They create and manipulate the environment around them. They also can do