What if you could hear the fluttering of the wings from an insect, the smell of a hot dog stand from almost a mile away, you see a small caterpillar slowly making it's way across the forest floor; what if you had senses like a wolf? In the novel Virals and Seizures this is happened to Tory Brennan and her three closest friends, Ben, Hiram, Shelton. While saving a wolfdog from malicious experimentation, they were exposed to a new genetically made virus called parvovirus XPB-19. The virus was created
Halle PuteraProfessor AlexanderCreative Writing (ENG225)24 March 2018SymptomsI was eleven and it was mayfly season. Well, I don’t know if “mayfly” is the correct term. They looked like large, prehistoric mosquitoes; hideously annoying things, they would appear religiously every autumn. I don’t think anyone knew what they really were; it’s just what everyone called them: mayflies. But I digress.Gym class was held in gender segregated sections: the boys got flag football, baseball, and Mr. Lambright;
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
Compare and Contrast Insects are among the most diverse animals in the world, with a large spread covering more than a million species found in all environments. Insects share several characteristics, which include the exoskeleton (a segmented body containing jointed appendages) and wings. Insects are a vital part of our earth’s ecology. They play various roles as pollinators and as food sources for other animals, without them our food would be drastically reduced. Due to the high amounts of species
Odonata The damselfly species is part of an insect group called Odonata. Odonata consists of dragonflies, which are the suborder Anisoptera, and damselflies, which are the suborder Zygoptera. The insect group Odonata is very small, probably containing only about 5,000 living species (Corbet, 1999). Odonata, typically called Odonates, are usually found close to bodies of water, looking for small insects to eat. Adult Odonates catch their prey while in flight, while younger Odonates, called
what initiated the ability of flight among insects and vertebrates? About how the creatures take off and venture into their flight? Well if “yes” was an answer to one of the questions (or even if it wasn’t), Flight is the place to find the answers. Oxygen, Forces & Flight Oxygen? Check. Forces? Check. Ready for flight? Check. "It's all About Oxygen" Oxygen has a role in flight? Of course! ... A motion and a changing ability, flight in insects and vertebrates have developed and evolved
cicada, an insect known since ancient times, is one such phenomenon. Because scientific knowledge of the cicada contains many gaps, these mysterious insects can still stimulate our imagination or lead us into confusion. At the present time, the cicada is many things to many people: it is a curiosity that should be approached scientifically; it is a source of superstition and dread; it is also little more than an annoying, seasonal inconvenience. The cicada is a stout, black insect about an inch
This paper mainly deals with insects, an example of invertebrate and the most common pests. Pests can be beneficial, meaning that they may produce a product or a bi-product or their body may contain a dye or food resource. Eg:silk,honey,or insects that are used as bait for fish. There are harmful insects too that feed on plants or on food of humans and on grain storage and on forest tress causing huge economic losses. It is very important to understand what makes the insects to act as strong pests. There
The Life Cycle of a Butterfly The life cycle of a butterfly is perhaps one of the most beautiful and astounding processes in nature. The four stages a butterfly goes through to become the beautiful flying insects are just as interesting as the vibrant colors and patterns on the wings of the various species of butterflies. The four stages are as follows: the egg, the caterpillar, the pupa, and the emergence of the butterfly. Each stage is vital to the development of the adult butterfly. Perhaps the
Factors Contributing to the Success of Insects Insect, small, air-breathing animal characterized by a segmented body with three main parts—head, thorax, and abdomen. In their adult forms, insects typically have three pairs of legs, one pair of antennae, and in most instances, two pairs of wings. Insects rank among the most successful animals on Earth. About one million species of insects have been identified so far, which is about half of all the animals known to science. That is why for every
migrate in tremendous swarms. Destroying nearly all plants in their path. They like to live in wet grassy areas. Locust also contribute to Orthoptera. Locust plagues have been recorded since the beginning of history and are still one of the worlds major insect problems. Cockroaches are in this group too. Their are an estimated 3,000 cockroach species in the world. About 55 live in the U.S., and only 4 species ar common household pets. German cockroaches or Croton bugs, are common in the U.S. especially
1.Let’s start off with the obvious facts, bees are the insects who make honey, Another easy fact bees lives in the beehive. Last easy fact the boss would be the Queen bee. 2. There are about 20,000 Different species of bees over the world. These bees would include Honey Bees, Killer bees, Bumble Bees, and Carpenter Bees. There would be more said in this project but they would be the most important or well-known. 3. Beekeepers use smoke to calm down bees when they are collecting honey or when
Bees In the past decade, a new insect has come under attack. With another year of alarming low loses the Western Honey Bee is seriously becoming a contender for the endangered list. Beekeepers are now reporting more losses in the summer than the winter. The small and sometimes annoying insects are a vital part of our world. As humans, we scream, run and swing at most of the bees we come into closer connect with. Instead, humans should try to understand the average bee, finding out what 's causing
The stages in a typical jelly life history are adult, gametes, planula, scyphistoma , strobila , and ephyra. Moon Jellies reproduce sexually and asexually. The adult Moon Jelly reproduces sexually by releasing eggs, and then the sperm over the eggs. Jellyfish can be either male or female so one jellyfish can reproduce entirely on its own (gametes). Once fertilized the eggs develop into small, ciliated planula larvae. The larvae look for a safe protected place to nest and to continue to grow safely
ants, and mosquitos. Insects are everywhere and are vital to an ecosystem, even those considered to be pests have a certain role that can only be carried out by that one species. “An insect is a six-legged animal that goes through…metamorphosis.”(Facklam 11) Each insect has three body segments the segments are divided into the head, home to the antenna, mouthparts, ocellus, and the compound eye; the thorax, which mainly includes the leg pairs as well as the fore and hind wings if any; and lastly the
knowledge, active flight has evolved four times in nature, and gliding flight has evolved multiple times. The first animals believed to take flight were insects around 410 million years ago. These first flying insects resembled dragonflies, and were from the Carboniferous. Through the adaptation of wings insects were able to grow much larger than modern insects, and to evolve into more than six million unique species. 248 million years ago select reptiles developed the ability to glide, but they never became
Insect Lab Report The class insect has the same body structures and functions. They have a segmented body divided into three parts, head, abdomen and thorax. They also have an antenna, segmented legs, and wings. The functions of the body parts, however differ from the different orders of insects. For instance the mouth parts for an adult ladybird beetle is chewing, but on a Hemiptera the mouth form is a beak called the stylets as is the case with an aphid. Palps are on the ends of beetle’s mouth
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
butterfly is bright orange with a white spots in a black margin around the edges. The veins on the wings are also black. The caterpillar is ringed with yellow, black, and white on each segment and has a pair of black fleshy tubercles at each end (Emmel, 1999). Monarchs smell with their antennae while they taste with their feet (Wexler, 1994). While the male monarchs have scent scales on their wings and "hair pencils" on their abdomens which secrete a scent (Emmel, 1999). The male scent is used during
and plants. Ants can also be used as a pesticide for crops, because they keep unwanted harmful insects off the corps and the corps do not have to be sprayed with any deadly chemicals; which makes using ants as a pesticide organic and safer for the environment. Allow me to get more into detail; here are some more interesting facts and jobs that ants do to help us. I find ants to be such a unique insect because of the fact that they can pick 50 times their own body weight, not even the buffest men