Earthworm Lab

Tapeworms are flat segmented worms that have a head, neck, and segments called proglottids; the scientific name is Cestoda the flatworm. Animals become infected with these tapeworms from grazing in pastures that have tapeworms in the grass and from drinking water that is contaminated with the tapeworms. When Humans eat the meat from these animals raw or not cooked all of the way they become infected with the tapeworms. Humans can also become infected by drinking contaminated water. Generally the symptoms of being infected with these tapeworms in humans is so mild that they are not recognized and can easily be treated, although in some cases it can become very dangerous.

species group. The location of this earthworm was in Australia, where they claimed their habitat

Observe the worms at 0, 4, 8, and 12 minutes, recording their level of

For the farmers of south east QLD (Australia), Barbers Pole worm is the main worm internal parasite infecting their sheep. This is due the amount of rain and the summer heat. Due to the weather and the climate of south east QLD, makes it the perfect environment for the Barbers Pole worm to infect the sheep. The Barbers pole life cycle is as so, once the barbers pole worm has laid its eggs in the stomach of the sheep, (barbers pole worm can lay up to 10,000 eggs per day), the worm eggs move through the digestive track and are mixed in this the fesses, the fesses are pooped out and into the land, the eggs hatch within 4-10 days, they will hatch faster in hot climate and slower in cold. Once the eggs have hatched they begin to feed on the bacteria

One end contained a trough with water and other contained a trough without water and a steady air current was supplied to increase the possible detection of water. Each cricket was tested separately and their results were recorded. Data was analyzed using logistic regressions to see if there was a correlation in the data points. A total of nine species of insects and three spiders had traveled from the forest to the pool. Nearly all species found near the edge of the pool were infected and sooner or later were observed jumping in the water. Those insects which could be rescued soon entered the water again. In a lab environment, all infected crickets entered the trough with water in the humid branch of the Y-Maze. Overall, the trials performed in this experiment showed a trend which aligns with the hypothesis that Hairworms(Nematomorpha) will manipulate the water seeking behaviour of their terrestrial hosts. In ecology and evolutionary biology, organisms will do anything they can to survive even if it means they must take over control from their host. More research and scientific review will be required in the future since there are many variables in the experimental process. In terms of symbiosis, hairworms have

5. Use stopwatch to record the time that the earthworms pass the whole container (50cm). 6. Repeat, three different concentrations are going to be used (no water added, 5ml, 15ml). Each group are going to be tested five times.

I will further split the 30 groups into 3 groups of 10 subgroups. The 3 groups will each have different soil pH conditions. The first group (10 subgroups or 20 worms) will have the regular soil, given by the EEB department. I will measure this pH and ideally increase the soil pH by 1 for the second group, creating slightly basic conditions. I will also ideally decrease the soil pH by 1 from the given soil for the third group, creating slightly acidic conditions. I use the word ideally because I still want to ensure that the worms will survive at the various pH

It is already known that although, fertilizers increase the growth of plants, they are not considered good for the environment. Earthworms, which are environment friendly added to proportional amounts of organic fertilizer, would help the environmental issue; while having a positive effect on growth. The idea is to use the best of both so that the environment can also be saved and quantitative growth can also be achieved. Our question proposed is what will be the effect of the combination of earthworms and organic fertilizers on the growth of radish plants. It is expected that the average growth of radish plants that contain earthworms and organic fertilizer will have the greatest growth compared to radish plants grown with organic fertilizer, only soil or only earthworms. This study may provide strong support for organic farming where worms can play an essential role in plant growth rate where farming can be done by using less chemical fertilizers and compensating it with biological processes such as

Mealworms are detritivores that are found in any place that is very dry, moderately warm, and dark. They live under rocks and logs, animal burrows and stored grain. They eat seedling and mainly grains, hence the name “mealworm.” Mealworms are the primary consumer of grain and seedlings in a forest environment. They are the scavengers of a forest environment. They’re predators include lizards, rodents, predator beetles, spiders and birds. They have positive and negative effects on the environment. Positive effects are; they clean up organic material to be used as compost in dirt. They are prey to other animals so the other animals can eat them and get energy. Mealworms have some negative effects as as well. These are; they are pests to stored

the soil. The eggs when released into the soil hatch into the larvae. Hookworm infection occurs

Observed parasites were divided into endoparasites and ectoparasites. The ratio between the two groups were assessed according to the hypothesis that ectoparasites are more susceptible to pollutants as they are directly exposed to them, and their numbers is expected to be lower at the more polluted sites. Endo-parasite numbers is expected to be higher at the more polluted sites, as they are not directly exposed to the external environment. The ranging values for endoparasites will be from less than 100 to greater than 1000. Ectoparasites ranging values will be from 1 to greater than 20 (Table 1).

Earthworms “are not really supposed to be in some of these areas,” says Tara Bal, a forest health scientist at Michigan Technological University in Houghton. In the northern forest soil is naturally stratified and nutrients and can only be found in

The need to control internal parasites will exist as long as cattle are grazing pastures. There are many different kinds of internal parasites, including roundworms (nematodes), tapeworms (cestodes), flukes (trematodes), protozoans (such as coccidia), and helminths (worms). However, this essay will discuss tapeworms (cestodes) specifically. A tapeworm is a flat, segmented worm that lives in the intestines of some animals. They can be anywhere from 4 to 28 inches long, and they attach to the intestinal walls and feed off of the host’s food and nutrients. The worm has a thin neck and the rest of the body consists of detachable body segments. These contain male and female reproductive organs and as the segments mature and are pushed further down the body by the development of new young segments at the neck, many thousands of eggs are formed in each segment. Some tapeworms (eg Taenia saginata) have motile segments, which can crawl out the anus, dropping to the ground and then crawl around the ground, expelling eggs over an area. Others (eg Taenia solium) are non-motile, they are passed in the dung and remain there until they dry out,

The pebbles will help with drainage and water management. The soil/potting mix obviously will be the food and nutrients needed for the earthworms. Moss will help with the moisture and the banana peel will provided more nutrients into the soil, it will also be food for the earthworms as they also eat food scraps. The water bottle with two little holes at the bottom will provide them with

Earthworms are known to mostly live in soil unless the conditions are not right for them at the time. Some conditions that they will live in are the