Discuss the origin and significance of diversity within and between species in a named taxonomic group of your choice(Ants).

When it comes time for a new queen to emerge and take the place of the old queen, the previous queen starts to lay eggs in queen cups. This usually happens around the time when swarming, or the reproduction of these bees, is in favorable condition. These cups eventually become specially constructed queen cells relatively similar to the shape of a peanut. Workers will only complete the queen cell once the queen lays an egg in it. The queen larva develops differently from the other worker bees because it is fed royal jelly very heavily compared to the other larvae in the hive, which are only fed the royal jelly for two days after they are born. This difference in their diet allows the queen larva to develop into a sexually mature female. The royal jelly is made from digested pollen or nectar and mixed with a chemical that is produced from a gland on the head of a nursing bee (Haydak, M. 1970).

Texas Horned Lizards (P. cornutum) are currently listed as a threated species in Texas and Oklahoma. Texas Horned Lizard decline has been documented to start in the 1960’s, and is attributed to many things such as the invasion of red fire ants, habitat loss, urbanization, and the increased use of insecticides (Donaldson, Price, and Morse, 1994). These lizards inhabit arid to semi-arid environments and are known to primarily eat harvester ants. However, other invertebrates have been noted such as spiders, crickets, and beetles (Montanucci, 1989). The Horned Lizards dependence on Harvester ants has already been brought to question when it was shown that habitat influences population distribution and not harvester ant availability (Whiting,

the genetics of this specific jumping spider upset the protective system of the ants. Not only do

At the beginning of the film/movie, it started with the ant colony picking and providing food for the grasshoppers. They operate by traditional agricultural labor. This film/movie shows an illustration of an economy that relies on the workers to do the labor because there is a scarcity of resources so they need to maintain the amount of food for the colony. This economy is based on a traditionalist economy. They stick to the way things have been for quite some time. There was never any thought of doing anything new because that could cause a huge amount of risk when it comes disrupting the way things have been smoothly running. The ants in the movie run/work off a rank system. Depending on their rank depends on what they do. There is the queen

In 2012, 16259 people in the United States were murdered and another 1.8 million people were sent to the hospital due to assault. Humans resorting to violence and harming others is a daily occurrence, but why? Is it in our nature, are we instinctively violent, and why is it that these acts are not only happening in the United States but worldwide. Although the average person does not leave their home planning on harming somebody that day, under the right circumstances almost every single person in this world will commit an act of violence. Sometimes these acts are justified, such as when we are trying to protect ourselves or a loved one, but what about the smaller acts that we all do every day.

We Are the Ants, by Shaun David Hutchinson, plunges readers into the world of Henry Denton, a teenager plagued by a hideous reputation as “Space Boy” due to continued alien abductions. Henry, an average teen except for this one fact, endures name-calling, bullying, a physical attack and more, as he tries to survive in the daily grind at Calypso High School.

The reading passage argues that the nest fossil, dated 200 million years ago, found in the state of Arizona has no relation with did bees and provides three reasons to advocate this theory. However, the professor found this argument by the passage unconvincing and repudiates all three reasons.

Anteaters are edentates. Edentates are animals that do not have teeth. Anteaters do not eat apples, but they eat about 30,000 ants and terminates a day. The anteater uses its large sharp claws to rip open an anthill or termite mound. Then he uses a very long, sticky tongue to catch them. Anteaters walk on their knuckles so their long claws don’t hurt them. A baby anteater is called a pup and rides on its mom’s back for about a year. When an anteater feels threatened, it will stand on its hind legs, hold its arms out wide and show its claws. Can you stand up tall, hold out your arms and spread your fingers to make yourself as big and scary?

So you want to try a bug yet? Out of all of the bugs in the universe, honeypot ants are the shining, bright star out of all of them. Their abdomens

I believe that red fire ants are a harmful invader species. I believe that red fire ants are considered to be the most harmful invader species because they can be a problem by there stings. They can cause damage by there sting in there body the stings are very dangerous because it can kill a deer with one or more stings in his body. They can put people in danger because of there shocks.

Instinct, its inheritability and the role it plays in natural selection, are explained. Unlike habit, which is learned, instinct is an innate characteristic inherited from past generations. Although the cause of instincts is unclear, Darwin states that they are molded by natural selection, just as physical variations are. Instincts that are beneficial to a species’ survival are selected for and thus propagated, eventually creating a better adapted species with higher rates of survival in the environment. Some examples of advantageous instincts include hens that lay eggs in others’ nests to produce more offspring that they do not have to take responsibility for raising. Worker ants in slave away their lives for the good of their colony while

Exotic species, also called non-indigenous, or invasive species, are organisms that have moved beyond their natural geographical range of habitat.

Melbourne is the capital city of victoria it’s the second-most populous city in Australia. Melbourne has townships, and rural localities in the greater metropolitan area in the State of Victoria. Melbourne is the hub of Victoria's business, administrative, cultural and recreational activities. The City of Melbourne is a place of rich cultural diversity that is one of the main reasons why a lot of tourists visit Melbourne.

Understanding the different populations in the world can be very interesting. It can be interesting because it is curious to question whether or not some species can be similar or different even if they live in different habitat. Therefore, this persuaded me to go deeper in figuring out if there is a relationship between different species that are raised and born in different habitat. This lead me to the question: If investigating the DNA sequence variation of different ants, will there be a significant different in the population of the ants being found in different areas? It is hypothesized that there will be a significant difference in the DNA sequence if the ants are found in different areas because they do live in different habitats

Honey bees could arguably be one of the most organized species in existence, likeable to a ‘super-organism’ such as the infamous Physalia physalis. The colony will work together to accomplish all the daily tasks required to keep the hive thriving including caring for the premature bees, gathering pollen, security, as well as other labor. Those individuals foraging for pollen are fully capable of expressing where sustenance is located by means of a dance-like process (Seeley 1986). These foragers also possess