Arthropods Research Paper

Bed bugs are small wingless insects. Bedbugs have flat bodies and are reddish-brown in color. They have been described as having a similar appearance to pumpkin seeds??????

What temperature do Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches prefer? In the wild they live on a warm island. Hissing cockroaches that are pets may still want to be in a warmer climate. As pets they are sometimes given a heat lamp. People have tested the cockroaches and have different ideas about Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches’ heat preference. What temperature do the roaches really want?

For this role-play, my role was P. Smith, a representative for XYZ Chemical Company, an international firm that specializes in making pesticides. I am told by representatives of the company around the world that a break out of the Bogog Moth in eminent. This moth is a pest, which can eat through entire forests within days. It was previously thought that the Bogog moths were under control with them nearing extinction, however they have surfaced again and are a real threat to forests. The drawbacks of the forests being destroyed are that massive soil erosion will occur, as well as the loss of water resources. The only way to stop the outbreak of these Bogog moths is to spray them with a pesticide that is made only by the company that I work for (XYZ Chemical Company). One of the key ingredients used in this pesticide, is the egg shell of the Darwin fresh-water crocodile. These fresh-water crocodiles are a protected species and they lay their eggs

There are about five thousand different types of ladybugs. The lady beetles, ladybird beetles, Mexican bean beetles, and squash beetles are some examples of some different kinds. Even though they might all have spots and eye-catching colors, they do not all have the same appetite. For instance, the Mexican bean beetles eat Mexican beans and the squash beetles eat squash. Other ladybugs like lady beetles and ladybird beetles feed on plant-eating insects; like aphids. Most lady bugs will lay their eggs in colonies of these plant-eating insects which will conclude in having more ladybugs to consume these insects. In doing this, they protect crops. Then some ladybugs eat crops themselves. To protect themselves, the ladybugs spots

Are you getting sick and tired of having flies swarming around your chicken coop? Spraying for flies is not the best option because most sprays contain harsh chemicals. A better idea is to set up a natural trap to keep flies at bay. A great option is to make natural fly bunting.

The decline of Typica moths, and an increase of Carbonaria moths was due to the pollutions levels in England rising. When the pollution settles vegetation turns darker.

I was amazed and felt frightened when I discovered for the first time how many micro creatures are existing inside and outside of our body. Despite their tremendous number, I learned that these creatures in fact are helping us to fight the bad bacteria by training our immune system and moreover providing us with a good supply of vitamins to keep us in a good

An adaptation a mayfly nymph has to hide from predators is their physical ability to

Australopithecus afarensis is one of the best known of the of the australopithecine species with Laetoli footprints found in Tanzania and many bones and bone fragments found in Ethiopia and Kenya. Because of certain very well preserved remains, we can tell a lot about this species. The most famous of these remains is “Lucy”, a skeleton with remains from almost every bone dating 3.2 million years old. This is a sexually dimorphic bipedal species, meaning the males and females have different characteristics and they walk on two legs. Males tend to be about 1 and 1/2 times the size of females and have larger canine teeth, but these teeth are still smaller than those of the Chimpanzee. Body size ranges between 1.1 and 1.6 meters and weight can be anywhere between 29 and 45 kilograms. This species has a jutting lower face (prognathic) and closely resemble an ape from the waist up and a human from the waist down. The curvature that the fingers and toes and elevated position of the shoulder joint show that this species is more adapted to tree climbing than more recent human ancestors.

Brachiopod species in which Cornulites was the dominate epibiont almost always displayed deep, angular ribs. Cornulites larvae settled mostly between the ribs, though some instances of the tubeworm growing across the ribs was recorded. Most specimens of Cornulites appeared clustered along the commissure of the brachiopod, supporting the hypothesis that these organisms were filter feeders and the symbiotic relationship was commensalism.

Scorpions are the most ancient predatory class of arthropods that lived on earth for millions of years. There have been more than 1,500 species of scorpions identified worldwide and there are only 25 of them venomous to humans and other organism. Scorpions’ venom has played a critical role in their survival due to its exceptional mixture of component which consists of enzymes, short peptides, simple amino acids and other chemical secreted from the venom glands. These short peptides (30-80 amino acid) are often identified and known as toxins that the scorpion use by means of self-protection against other organisms. In recent decades, both medical and therapeutic fields turn their attention to study scorpions as significant laboratory animals due to their physiological characteristics. The different toxins produced by the venomous scorpions have opened new horizon towards using them to either design specific drugs and antibodies or find alternative tools in identifying a certain disease such as cancer. Although these toxins have different modes of actions and targets, the majority of them affect the nervous system and are classified as neurotoxins because they either alter specific ion channel binding and movement across cell membrane or affect neurotransmitter transmissions in the synaptic cleft. In order to explore closely the different features of these neurotoxins, a toxin called chlorotoxin will be discussed. Chlorotoxin or (CTX) is a type of toxin that is isolated from

The family Carabidae, or ground beetles, contains more than 40,000 described species classified into some 86 tribes (Erwin 1985). The Carabidae, are one of the best known and most popular families of beetles (Luff 1998). Carabids emerged in the early Tertiary as wet-biotope generalists in tropical habitats, where they are one of the dominant predatory invertebrate groups (Erwin and Adis 1982). Although this group has retained an easy-to-recognize generalist body plan, their body shape and leg morphology are characteristically modified for running, digging, burrowing, climbing, and swimming (Evans 1977, 1986). Ground beetles are predators that feed on insects, other invertebrates (such as snails), and seeds. They are specialized for many modes

The primary form of reproduction for all Echinodermata is sexual reproduction. Sexual reproduction is achieved by the fertilization of a female egg by male spermatozoa. The interesting thing is, echinoderm male and females expel their eggs and spermatozoa into water, a process known as spawning, rather than the human and animal form of sexual reproduction. Once an egg is fertilized by a sperm and an embryo develops, the echinoderm could take several different paths on its way to develop into its juvenile state. Eggs that are small and lack yolk will go through a stage in which it spends time as free-swimming larvae that becomes part of the plankton. These echinoderms will begin their life actively feeding on small organisms until they reach their juvenile stage and begin living on the seafloor. This track of development is known as indirect development. Embryos that develop from large eggs may develop into a larval, which is planktonic, but it would live off of its own yolk rather than feeding off of small organisms before the juvenile stage. This is known ad direct development of echinoderms.

There are 900 species of crickets; one of the most common species, used a lot of times for bait, is the house cricket or Acheta Domesticus. Most species of crickets are nocturnal meaning they are more active at night. House crickets tend to be found in the Eastern part of the United States. House Crickets have shorter lifespans than most other species of crickets living only about three months while other cricket species such as the mole cricket can live for about a year.

There's a well-known factoid that claims you're always within a few feet of a spider. Is this true? Arachnologist[3]​[4] Chris Buddle wrote a good article on this question; as you might expect, it's not literally true. Spiders don't live in the water,[5] so you can get away from them by swimming, and there aren't as many spiders in buildings as in fields and forests. But if you're anywhere near the outdoors, even in the Arctic tundra, there are probably spiders within a few feet of you.