Mealworms: Darkling Beetle

When the Larvae are ingested by a human they turn into adult tapeworms and live in the intestines of humans, this is called an intestinal infection. They can live for up to 30- years in there host

Using the scientific method it is necessary to gain some knowledge about mealworms and the two different substrates.

If mealworms are attracted to moisture, and tend to move away from hardened food, why would the mealworm move towards bran flakes and begin to go inside the pile.

Just last month, a deadly worm was found in not one, but four locations in the U.S. state of Florida. This worm, until recently, was documented in only twenty-one countries, most of which were island nations. Although the New Guinea Flatworm may seem as a highly dangerous predator, it is only about two inches in length and mainly targets snails for its nutrition. These worms are not harmful to humans, but they will feast on any soft creature in the soil. In order to eat snails or any critters with a hard shell, the New Guinea Flatworm latches itself onto the shell’s opening and then spits out its own stomach through the opening in its belly. This allows an acidic goo to dissolve the snail’s flesh and the worm can continue on with its meal by swallowing both its stomach and the snail.

This worm has other things it can eat as well. The one thing this worm loves to eat is the snail eggs it finds when it attaches itself to the bottom of the cabbage leaves and when it is searching for it's prey as well. Many scientists have said that the new guinea flatworm is one of the fifteen tenth largest dangerous and threatening invasion on the united states. They say it continues to grow even this year as well. It fact many people say that when it starts to develop the worms never stop growing and developing and continue to grow and grow and take over populations and specific areas in the united states. Many relationships with other species in the worm occur because the worm continues to invade state by state ,county by county or even area by area and it is causing problems everywhere. Another reason the specific species relationships happen is because the worms continue to have offspring and then they will continue to develop and develop. The next reason is the flatworm can carry a parasitic disease that infects rats and can be passed on to

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.

Overall the mealworms for the groups weighed more after the experiment than before. The ranges of weight change varied from around 0.4 to 0.6 grams gained.

But surprisingly they went to the coffee side more. The second and third test the mealworms went more of where I originally thought. I figured that all three of the test would be more like the last test was like. Mealworms can be a pest in a house. They can get into your flour, corn meal, or any other type of house grains (Arizona, 1997).

Earthworm: In our dissection of the earth worm we found they belong to a group of animals called annelids. Its body is segmented into several parts, except for the head and tail regions. Its diet is of decomposed plants and other small particles in the

The glow worm’s habitat is undisturbed woodland and caves around the world. Glow worms are mostly active during night which is when they can be seen glowing. They are one of the few insects that are found inside the Arctic Circle. The glow worm is famous for having a green and yellow colored light on the end of its tail. Glow worm’s main prey is snails, slugs, and insects. Their predators are spiders, birds, and centipedes. The glow worm’s conservation status is threatened and the number of species is 12. The average lifespan for a glow worm is up to 5 months. A glow worm is an omnivore and is up to 1-2 inches long. The glow worm also has a shell like skin type.

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 then lodge in the heart, lungs, and surrounding blood vessels and begin reproducing. Adult worms can grow up to 12 inches in length, can live 5-7 years, and a dog can have as many as 250 worms in its system.”

Glow worms eat snails, small snakes and even other glow worms. They can also eat slugs. The glow worm starts as an egg and takes 3 weeks two mature into a glow worm. After they are matured it takes 9 months to become a pupa. Then the pupa take 2 weeks to mature into an adult flying glow. The glow worms live for about 10 to 11 months until the process

The general life cycle of a lungworm begins with an ingestion of infective larvae. The infective larvae then penetrate the intestinal wall . From here larvae migrate into the lungs through the bloodstream. The infected larvae reside in the lungs until the development into an adult lungworm

Human tapeworm infestations are most common in regions where there is contaminated soil and water and where meat and fish are eaten raw or lightly cooked. In the United States the beef tapeworm is most common. The usual intermediate host is a cow, which ingests the proglottid while drinking or grazing. The embryo is equipped with sharp hooks, hatch and bore through the cow's intestinal wall into the bloodstream, where they are carried to the muscles. Each embryo encloses itself in a cyst, or bladder; at this stage it is called a bladder worm. During the bladder worm stage the embryo develops into a miniature scolex; it remains inside until the muscle is eaten by a primary host, in this case a human. If the scolex has not been killed by sufficient cooking of the meat, it sheds its covering and attaches to the intestinal wall, where it begins producing proglottids. An adult tapeworm consists of a knoblike head, or scolex, equipped with hooks for attaching to the intestinal wall of the host, a neck region, and a series of flat, rectangular body segments generated by the neck. proglottids break off and enter in the feces of the host, but new ones are constantly formed at the anterior end of the worm. As long as the scolex and neck are intact the worm is alive and capable of growth. A nervous system