include: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. The amount of time spent in each life stage depends on environmental conditions such as food, water, and temperature. During the first stage of life, time is spent inside an egg. The small, white egg is the size of a dust particle and bean-shaped, and the egg usually is covered up by dust and dirt because it is sticky. After one to four weeks, the egg hatches and larva will be seen. At this stage, the organism can be called a mealworm. The larva stage lasts about
Listerine for Mosquitoes, Does It Work as Bug Spray? Each year, people all over the place begin their battle against the bugs, especially mosquitos who need blood to reproduce. Most people in warmer, wet climates spend a small fortune each year, trying to figure out how to eliminate these nasty, infection spreading, blood sucking, insects from their home and their lawns. Due to the fact that people hate them so much, there are numerous ideas on possible alternatives to bug spray that are cost effective
INTRODUCTION Cigarette beetle, Lasioderma serricorne F (Col.: Anobiidae) is a cosmopolitan stored product insect pest (Rees, 2004). The female beetles are found to deposit about 100 eggs loosely on commodities which hatch between 6- 10 days in territory weather conditions (Cabrera, 2007). The beetles that emerge as adult are capable of flight and do not feed as adult but create holes in the product to locate a suitable oviposition site (Papadopoulou, 2006). The shortest development period from egg
There was once a very lonely and sad monarch caterpillar. He would wake up every morning alone and cold in the shades of the leaves. As usual, he would check around nervously for danger before he proceeds to look for food. He was an especially picky eater because he would only eat the leaves of a milkweed plant. One morning, he woke to the scorching ray of light blaring upon the lonely caterpillar. He decided to check the flare out when he noticed a string of caterpillars beside him – marching one
leishmaniasis and typhoid fever in the United States of America (Buchanan and Dura, 2005). Flies go through a complete metamorphosis. Metamorphous is the transformation of an insect from an immature form of larva to an adult from in distinct stage. There are four major stage in flies lifecycle which is eggs, larva, pupa and adult fly (refer to Figure 1 in appendix 1). The first stage is the egg. This stage is where the adult female fly will lay eggs. Adult female flies will fly and lay eggs wherever a suitable
months. The process of reproduction begins with the larva hatching from an egg within the female and the development of the young tsetse occurring within the uterus. The larva growth process usually take about nine days. While in the uterus, the larva get nutrients from fluid secreted from the female tsetse’s uterine wall. Proper nutrition is necessary because if under nourished the female fly will produce a small, underdeveloped and nonviable larva. On the other hand, adequate nutrition will ...
The connection between culture and society are fundamental in the understanding of anthropology. Culture on its own is a huge topic that can be studied for years and years. There is a never-ending stream of new ways culture affects human beings in everyday life. Just walking through the hallway puts culture into use. How we are supposed to interact with people in society and how we actually interact with people is all based on culture. Without culture, a healthy working society would not exist, and
2000). In order to protect their larvae, the adult female flies oviposit the eggs into the stem of the goldenrod plant Solidago altissima. While the females may lay several eggs per goldenrod stem, each plant usually ends up with one surviving larva in one gall. Once born, the fly larvae hatch from their eggs and begin eating the inside of the goldenrod stem. The larvae emit a chemical in their saliva which mimics a plant hormone that causes the plant to grow a gall in which the larvae live
Introduction A gall is an abnormal growth that occurs on plant tissues. A plant growth is similar to a tumor or a wart that would occur on an animal; plant galls, however, are typically caused by various parasites and insects. In order for a gall to form, a female insect needs to implant an egg into a plant. It is important that the insect does so when the plant is maturing, this ensures the plants meristem is extremely active and prepared to grow a gall suitable for the insect’s young. The larvae
Introduction: An ecosystem is the balance of biotic and abiotic organisms to produce a sustainable environment for organism to inhabit and thrive in. The survival of a species is dependent upon changing and growing from the circumstances that has befallen the species. One can see this process by the life history of a species and how the organism changed by adapting to the circumstances. Whether from predators, competition of resources such as light, food, water, or even competition with each other
water most of the time, they mate in rivers and when they lay their eggs in the rivers they leave them in rocky areas. When the eggs hatch they float downstream for miles and miles until the larva can grow a tail and swim upstream .When they grow their fins and can swim upstream they usually end up in
Since 1992, the honey bee has been Oklahoma’s state insect, largely because honey bees convey such a significant task in agriculture. The honey bee and its contributions to our world dates back thousands of years and continues to be by far one of the most extraordinary creatures ever. Honey bees and the products they emit have many diverse uses in cultures around the world. Today honey bees are being used in research to detect drugs, bombs and cancer. Also, in developing treatments for an array of
made and how it was sold can tell us a lot. It can tell us the ancient techniques of making silk, how China traded, and who they traded with. There are many different types of moths that can produce silk strands. The strands of silk came from their larva which is known as silkworms. The Chinese however used one specific type of moths. It was the Bombyx mori . They chose this specific moth because they are blind and they were flightless. Their characteristics made it easy to confine them to an area
Like almost any other animal the octopus has many dangers that they need to hide from. Octopuses are masters of camouflage and have amazing defensive skills that can be used for fighting. Octopi are known for defending themselves against small sharks and other dangerous predators. An octopus uses its color changing abilities to blend in with its surroundings and to warn other animals to prevent them from attacking the octopus. Along with having camouflage, all species of octopi are known to be venomous
ratio of medium and water. After recording the data of the F1 generation, and picking out the virgin flies for the crossing, and we killed of the rest of the flies using the oil method. After some time passed the F1 generation had larva in the vial. Once we noticed the larva we had to put the flies to sleep and collect the data. We then had to prepare another two new vials and medium and water. Carefully observing the flies and picking out three males and three female virgin flies to place into the
different for male and female mosquito as female mosquito fly longer than male mosquito. The life cycle of the mosquito according to the American Mosquito Control Association (2014), consist of four processes, which are, laying eggs, emerge into larva, grow to be pupa, and become an adult mosquito. This process usually takes place in an early April (refer to Appendix 1). The first life cycle of a mosquito is laying eggs. This task is done by the female mosquito. The female mosquito feed on man and
In only a week of battling the Japanese, Singapore, the “Impregnable Fortress” had fallen. Around 80,000 Australian and British and European soldiers became Prisoners of War (POW). The Japanese Occupation impacted the British Prisoners of War politically. The Japanese wanted to disseenx the idea of white supremacy. They did not want the British to be ruling over Singapore, an asian country. Therefore, when the British surrendered the Japanese took in mainly Australians, British and Europeans
free from boredom because not everyone can afford to explore new countries. This sense helps us see incredible things in trivial normal scenes. If we observe the metamorphosis of a larva into a butterfly, we will be amazed by the marvellousness of nature. Nature with its power is capable of transforming an ugly larva into a splendid butterfly. Every day when there is something new to discover, that is the day worth living. Imagine that one day we woke up, and life had nothing new to learn, would
Drosophila melanogaster is a fruit fly that is valuable to biological research, particularly in genetics and developmental biology. (Manning, 1997) For the purposes of this experiment D. melanogaster was used to examine Mendelian inheritance patterns commonly seen in the study of genetics. The final offspring results would show whether the traits of the fruit flies are a product of independent assortment, which is a Mendelian pattern of inheritance, or if non-Mendelian patterns had taken effect
Insect is a living thing from a group of invertebrate animal which have the highest number of species in the world. One of them is mosquito which is known as blood-sucker. The mosquitoes, or a scientific name is Culicidae, are a family of about three and half thousand species within the order Diptera with the two-winged flies. They are more closely related to midges, gnats and crane flies and one of the more primitive families of Diptera. Mosquitoes are not founded in the places that are permanently