Lab 1 Mealworm Behavior Worksheet 1

This is why they’re given a pest’s name “mealworm”. Mealworms are known for burrowing themselves in grains or flours and completely infesting businesses inventory. Tenebrio larvae will eat almost anything; they’ll consume rotten wood, grasses, small plants, other insects, and even feces. Since meals worms are such an essential food supply to families who own pets, more needs to be understood

3. Moisten the earthworm with room temperature earthworm saline. You must keep the worm moist at all times during the dissection.

In part 2 of the experiment we are inducing RNAi through the process of feeding. To do so, a black pen is used to label the bottom of an OP50 seeded plate with the date and “wild type”. Another OP50 seeded plate is labeled with the date and “dpy-13”. A black pen is then used to label the bottom of the plate seeded with dpy-13 RNAi feeding strain with the date and “wild type”. Five L4-stage worms from the plate of wild type worms are then picked and moved to the OP50 seeded plate labeled “wild type”. Any eggs or young larvae that may have been accidentally transferred are to be picked off of the plate and then flamed in a Bunsen burner. The same method is used to move five L4 wild type worms to the plate seeded with the dpy-13 RNAi feeding strain, and once again to move five L4 dpy-13 worms to the OP50 seeded plate labeled “dpy-13”. These plates are then incubated upside down at 20˚C.

Pantry moths, also known as Indian meal moths, are brownish-red in color with a wingspan just under 1 inch. They are typically brought into homes via contaminated food and once they're in, everything in your pantry is fair game. Pantry moths munch on grains, flours, fruits, pet food and birdseed. If your pantry is plagued with moths, you must take action immediately. One female pantry moth can lay 400 eggs, making your food even more susceptible once those eggs hatch. Home remedies are just as effective at controlling pantry moths as chemical insecticides and are safer to use around food.

This week in my clinic I learned about what to check for when looking at a fecal sample under the microscope. After being given the sample, I put together a fecal exam for a direct smear and a fecal floatation. My mentor then showed me how to work the microscope and what to look for in a sample through an example chart. She then made me look at the sample and tell her what I saw. With this particular patient I was able to see Roundworms/Hookworms eggs on the fecal exam. Roundworm eggs are in a round shape with a lighter outer membrane whereas Hookworm eggs are oval with cluster of round eggs in the middle. This was an exciting moment for me due to the fact that I have never had the chance to try and search for fecal worms on my own. Most of the time if one of the nurses saw something

This lab was a simulation of the capture and recapture and counting of birds. For example the West Nile Virus infected many birds and they would test the amount of birds with the virus, this is the way they would keep up on the spread of the virus. We tested the concept of the census and counting of all birds in a certain area. We used the beans which were marked and some werent.

“Peculiarities in the silkworm are known to appear at the corresponding caterpillar or cocoon stage”

When the infective larvae on the pasture are eaten by the sheep they develop in the 4th stage larvae and become adults. This stage is called the host stage as they need to live inside a host (the sheep) or the worms will die. They live inside the sheep’s abomasum during which they lay eggs and will spend the rest of their lives and the whole cycle repeats itself

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

As caterpillars, Ailanthus Webworm Moths eat a variation of plants and shrubs. The moth are named after the Ailanthus tree because that is where the larvae make its web. The caterpillar are fond of eating the leaves of the trees. Ailanthus Webworm Moths are included in the Bagworm moth family because as caterpillars, they spin a cocoon and carry it around with them. As it is being dragged along, it collects leaves, sticks, and other foliage. Once the caterpillar is ready to change, it will attach the cocoon to a brach and crawl

They have to be put in the fridge and fed, so they can obtain their energy. Mealworms prey on plant soil and are preyed on by Birds, Arthropods, and bigger Nearmonodes. When a mealworm moves its head, it means its either hungry, stuck, tired, or thirsty. If a mealworm has uniform guts, it means it is going into the pupa stage. Mealworms burrow if they think they are being attacked. Mealworms start out with no legs but

The hypothesis was not supported by the data. When given 2g of cucumber, white potato, and carrot slices, the mealworms did not favor eating a cucumber in comparison to the other vegetables regardless of the higher content of water. While analyzing the data, it was found that the standard error bars of the cucumber data went from 1.85g to 1.89g and the white potato data went from 1.86g to 2.14g which meant that the true means of both of them overlap making that comparison and data statistically insignificant. Also, the white potato data’s true mean ranged from 1.86g to 2.14g and the carrot data’s true mean ranged from 1.91g to 2.03g, making that comparison also statistically insignificant. However, one thing that

First the host must be infected with the larvae or the parasite. To be infected , the host must eat the larvae and it will end up in the intestines, hatch and start to affect the host. To be infected by the roundworm, the host must step in contaminated soil with their barefoot. This type of infection does not spread onto other individuals. Having the infection has nothing to do with genetics or inheriting diseases from parents.

The life cycle of this worm is fairly simple; they first find a intermediate host and then produce offspring inside that creature. These offspring will then exit the host and find another creature to bury inside where they will stay unti the creauture

For the setup, we gathered our materials: 1-Gallon Plastic Jug, a jar, a mesh screen, Isopropanol, an Apparatus, scissors, a ruler, some tape, and a collected soil sample. First, we cut the bottom of the jug using scissors. Then, we poured two centimeters of isopropanol into the jar. Then, we placed the milk jug funnel’s spout in the open part of the jar. The jug is compared to the funnel, while the jar is the collection chamber where critters will be trapped in. After this, we bend the mesh screen so that it’s securely into the milk jug and forms a stable platform for the soil sample. Then, we put the soil sample into the funnel on the jar and tape the ruler to the handle of the funnel and to the side of the jar to ensure that the funnel remains