Sowbugs are mostly vegetarian, but considered omnivores (The University of Arizona 1997). Found in many flower beds, flower pots, and greenhouses sowbugs are considered pest to many gardeners. But they happen to be very valuable because they are able to circulate soil without eating garden plants. As scavengers though, they also play a
There are about 9000 species of annelid known today. The ascaris are an intestinal worm, resembling earthworms in size and appearance. MATERIALS: * Dissecting pins * Gloves * Forceps * Lab apron * Scissors * Paper towel * Scalpel * Water * Dissecting probe * Preserved earthworm * Hand lens * Dissection tray PROCEDURE: We first put on our lab aprons, gloves, and (for the girls) make sure your hair is pulled back. We get the dissection tray and place the earthworm. Grab two dissecting pins and place them one on each end of the earthworm.
Aly Pulford, Summer 2011 Trichogramma Wasps: Fighters of garden foes Beneficial Insects Insects are not the most glamorous of all animals on earth, and often receive disgust from their fellow earth habitants: humans. But there are some six-legged creatures that deserve praise for their predatory skills that not only keep their species alive, but benefit farming and gardening humans all over the earth. One of these beneficial insects is the trichogramma wasp. The trichogramma wasp, a member of the especially diverse hymenoptera order, measures only 0.18mm in length as an adult, has a narrow abdomen, short antennae and red colored eyes. This wasp has two pairs of wings and an ovipositor on the female.
Parasitic worms often referred to as helminths, they are a division of eukaryotic parasites. Helminths are worm like organisms that lived and feed off living hosts, receiving nourishment and protection while disruption their hosts’ nutrient absorption, causing weakness, diseases, and possible death. One example of a parasitic worm is the Ancylostoma duodenale, which belong to the genus Ancylostoma. Ancylostoma duodenale is also known as the hookworm. Hookworm lives in the small intestine of hosts such as humans, cats and dogs, where it is able to mate and mature.
It’s scientific name is Heloderma suspectum. The gila monster can be up to two feet (0.6 meters) and a maximum weight exceeding five pounds (2.3 kilograms They can be identified by their beautiful and color body which is black marked with pink, orange, and yellow spots. Usually their face is totally black. They are known as beaded lizards because they have small scales across their backs that look like tiny beads. Gila monsters are found in the Mojave, Sonoran, and Chihuahuan deserts of the southwestern US and northwestern Mexico.
Energy & Matter for Critter I. PART ONE * TraFly is a Carnivore because it’s diet consists of insects, beetles, ants, and caterpillars. The source of carbohydrates comes from crickets, red ants, and June beetles. Out of those, crickets have the most carbohydrates. The source of protein comes from caterpillars, crickets, red ants, and June beetles.
Although some subcultures still relay on foraging expeditions as a means of survival, most people do so for the sheer recreation not by necessity. Our sense of fear when it comes to eating things that are unfamiliar, our neophobic ways help us in some ways from ingesting what is not good for consumption. I personally consider myself the opposite, a neophilia. My desire to explore new tasty foods usually entices me to at least nibble the item in question. Many people aren’t so willing to
So much of our industrial food turns out to be rearrangements of corn. Process analysis writing involves writing to give instructions on how to do something or to describe how something is done. Pollan wrote a book on rules for eating. The main message he wanted everyone to take out is: eat food, not too much, mostly plants. Pollan mentions Twinkies and non-dairy creamer as often as he does because he doesn’t want us to eat it because they can be readily identified as something not “whole”.
The Venus Flytrap, known to the science community as Dionaea muscipula, is most commonly found and is native to the southeastern parts of the United States and even more commonly North and South Carolina. They are also found in bogs or wetlands and some say that there is a symbiosis relationship between the venus flytrap and sphagna moss. They are a carnivorous plant but also is a heterotroph or can produce its food from sunlight. This plant is considered by many to be one of the most interesting and mysterious plants. They eat small insects and the mechanism that controls the leaf closing prevents it closing by any small thing such as a rain drop from closing the leaf.
Our hypotheses were that the isopods would prefer the strawberries with the glucose in them, along with a damp environment and a longing for the dark. To go through with this experiment, we recreated three containers out of tin foil. In each we placed about twelve isopods after creating the living conditions. One consisted of both strawberries and potatoes. In another we kept one side damp with a paper towel, and the other side dry.