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.
“Perceptions of Invasive Species: The Cane Toad” Invasive species are often given a bad name. The word “invasive” itself naturally has negative connotations, which is perhaps why when people hear the term “invasive species” they automatically regard the species with animosity. As Davis et al. (2011) aptly put: ‘'non-native' species have been vilified for driving beloved 'native' species to extinction and generally polluting 'natural' environments. Intentionally or not, such characterizations have helped to create a pervasive bias against alien species that has been embraced by the public, conservationists, land managers and policy-makers, as well by as many scientists, throughout the world.’ The issue of native and invasive species is not clear, even though we tend to value native species and view invasive species with suspicion.
This wasp has two pairs of wings and an ovipositor on the female. The wings of the trichogramma differ from the typical membranous winged moth, as the trichogramma wings are short with long fringy hairs. Regardless of its small size, this parasitic wasp is a professional destroyer of the eggs of over 200 species of leaf-eating moths and butterflies. During the course of the female’s 10-day life, she seeks out potential host eggs, to lay her own eggs in, by picking up their scent. Once a suitable host egg is found, she measures the egg with her antennae to determine how many eggs of her own she can lie inside.
b. P. r. roseus, the greater flamingo, is the largest of the flamingos and has deep pink wings. 2. Phoenicopterus chilensis, the Chilean flamingo. Chilean flamingos are slightly smaller than Caribbean flamingos and have gray legs with pink bands at the joints. 3.
This shows that the hours of rain that hadn’t stopped had forced the scorpion to hide underneath this sack of rice, and not of its own accord. Then, when the family had been in the same room as the scorpion, it must have felt intimidated by them and decided to retaliate before risking the rain again. However, the poet does not bring this across to the reader clearly because the scorpion is later named “the Evil One”. This is most likely describing the scorpion as the person in the poem thinks that the scorpion has done this out of free will. However, this could also be talking about the Devil because the peasants were
The Desert Hedgehog The hedgehog, found in the desert, is the smallest of all hedgehogs. It grows to be about 5 and a half inches tall and weighs 10 to 18 ounces. The desert hedgehog has a white for head and sides with dark brown feet and tail. It grows wrinkled stiff spines on its back. They have rounded ears and a brown pointed snout.
Danger of Ignorance by Kantapan Ratchapon An abstract idea as ignorance is widely used as a theme in many literary works involved with religious or politics. An Enemy of People (1882) written by Henrik Ibsen is a play about politics and social issue as corruption related with ignorance of people. Ignorance can be viewed as an infected disease spreading widely throughout the town. The ignorance, as a consequence, obstructs the town from any developments. Besides, all kind of illegal or immoral activities would remain and root deeply in the society if most of citizens are ignorance.
Illegal drug production involve indiscriminate use of pesticides, fertilizers and corrective measures by those cultivating the crops, these actions alter the physiochemical properties of the soil. On top of that, we must consider the practice of burning rain forest to gain land for crops, and reductions in the flora and micro fauna in the soil such as symbiotic bacteria, larvae, etc. Furthermore, the emissions from refineries used to process the illicit crops increase the concentrations of CO2 and other greenhouses gases in the atmosphere. Based on this, we can say that it takes a very long time to recover from it and repair the damages caused by these processes. Consequently, we have
Just because they are found all over the world, and can leave an itchy aggravating mark cannot justify how they are truly the world’s number one deadly animal. The fact that mosquitoes carry parasites would be a explanation to how and why they are so deadly. Therefore mosquitoes are the world’s most deadly animal because of the parasites in which they carry. I cannot look or view a mosquito and tell you if it can lead to death, and I cannot guarantee that a prevention method such as vaccines will always protect you. I also cannot say that a mosquito is always considered an animal, and not an insect.
If one thing that should be in your mind while you read this is the Florida Everglades and our great lakes. Both are endangered of invasive species because of either the owner’s carelessness or by accident from when people came to the new world. Things that will be pointed out in this paper is the dangers of invasive species and what the opposing views thinks of the problem that is threating animals and our existence. In Florida they have major problems with invasive species like Burmese pythons; during October of last year a crew worker went to Tree Island in the Florida’s Everglades to cut down lygodium vines, which is also an invasive species, but on one of the vines was actually a 16-foot Burmese python dangling from a tree, the crew worker shot the snake and killed it with a shotgun the python killed swallowed a 76-pound deer (Weeks para. 2).