The Destruction of the Corn Earworm

The Earthworm is a crucial component of the environment due to their interactions with soil which then, in turn, provides benefits to other living organisms such as their burrowing behavior, which allows nutrients, air, and water to delve deeper into the soil. After soil is swallowed by the pharynx, the food matter is sent through the esophagus and into the crop, where the soil is stored until it interacts with the gizzard. The main function of the gizzard to grind the soils so that it can enter the intestine, where gland cells within release fluid to aid in the process. When organic matter is finally excreted from the intestine to the anus through the worm through the process of casting, more nutrients are introduce into the soil that benefit plant life. The earthworm also has a brain located behind its pharynx, called the cerebral ganglia, that is crucial for movement. The

When Jesus Came, The Corn Mothers Went Away gives an in-depth history of the Pueblo Indians before and after the Spanish conquest. It describes the forced changes the Spanish brought to the Indians, and also the changes brought to the Spaniards who came to “civilize” the Indians. The author's thesis is that the Pueblo Indians and other Indians were treated cruelly by the Spanish, who justified their crime by claiming they were civilizing an

Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (NCAP) (Winter 1992). Malathion Insecticide Factsheet. Journal of Pesticide Reform 12(4). Retrieved May 4, 2008, from

Barbers Pole worm (Haemonchus contortus) is most commonly found in southern Queensland and Northern New South Wales it is most common to find the worms here because is humid but no to humid in order to kill off the worms and not too cold to kill the worms. Refer to figure 1 in order to see where about they are most commonly found. The Barbers worm is found in the 4th stomach (abomasum) they live in that area of the stomach because the most common way to detect weather or not there is any worms in the stomach is to conduct a worm egg test commonly known as FEC (faeces egg count).

The new guinea flatworm is from the united states of America.this worm is native to the island of New Guinea where it was originally to have been found in. You can find these worms in tropical areas,coastlands ,planted forests, riparian zones shrubs and urban areas as well.it feeds on earthworms ,slugs and arthopods. This worm can harm the snail called The Giant East African Snail. This worm also can mainly eat mollusks and it especially likes to prey on snail. To hunt for it's prey the worm deposits itself to the bottom of a cabbage leave. It also can follow snail mucus trails to find it`s trail. It also has a infectious rate at least 14.1% and this thing usually lives on cabbage leaves. This worm not only affects the whole population of animals or a specific area this worm can affect humans as

In this lab, the class discovered the effects of different substrates and stimuli on red flour beetles. Red flour beetles eat flour and other grains and the female beetle deposits her eggs on flour, cereal, dry pet food, or other similar products. The larvae hatch and then begin to eat the material around them. In the article “Patch exploitation by Tribolium castaneum: Movement patterns, distribution, and oviposition”, it says that most of the activity from red flour beetles is spent in food sources (Campbell and Hagstrum). There are many factors that affect the red flour beetles ability to survive or reproduce, like temperature, food source, stress, and genetics (Biology 159). In “Humidity Reactions of Tribolium Castaneum (Herbst)”, it states that red flour beetles are attracted to different substrates due to their nutritional levels and moisture level of the substrate (Willis and Roth).

Furthermore, the drawback of grain being consumed by insects due to ‘sparrowcide’ corroborates with

The diamondback moth is an invasive species that is believed to have originated in Europe. Since it was not originally native to New York, it has few natural predators, so the population can easily spiral out of control. It is brown and tan in appearance and is somewhat elongated in shape. Females lay approximately 150 eggs at a time, but they can lay up to 300. In addition, the moth only lives for up to 16 days. This may not seem like a long time to us because we live for decades, but the diamondback moth is laying eggs for ten out of those sixteen days (Capinera, 2000). Now think about it. That’s a lot of larvae in a short amount of time. This can be a big problem for farmers, especially because the problem comes in the form of a common moth. There are so many moth varieties in New York that it is almost impossible to know all about each one, and that is why farmers like me who live all around New York have an even tougher

1) First, the scientists need to find an organism that contains the trait they would like their corn to have. In our example, they've identified a protein in Bt soil bacteria that can kill pests like rootworm but isn't harmful to mammals. (Farmers have been spraying their fields with Bt for decades, but it can wash away

Armyworms are stout bodied, hairless, striped caterpillars that chew the foliage of grasses and grain crops. Armyworms favorite food is corn and small grains, but they will occasionally feed on turf grasses. In this essay I argue that humans should take action regarding invasive species because many areas don't have enough food as is the case with the Armyworms.

Why is corn so hard to escape from? (Corn is also called maize, which sounds like maze, but spelled differently.)

The genetically modified corn, also known as BT corn has been washing into rivers and Streams and is producing byproducts and other harmful things. The BT corn was mainly planted to kill off some of the Corn Borer bugs, but in the process, it also started to kill Caddisfly’s. It started to kill them because it got clogged in the rivers and either polluted it or it destroyed the eggs. The adult Caddisfly’s died from eating the GT corn pollen that had a lot of different kinds of bug poisons. The Gt corn was later removed and tested for thoughts on better use and safety in the future.

Have you ever just been sitting there doing nothing or doing your homework and the song from a commercial comes up and plays over and over in you heard?”You’ve probably got an earworm.”(Science Friday) “According to scientist Elizabeth Margulis, an earworm "tends to be this little fragment, often a bit of the chorus of the song, that just plays and replays like it’s stuck on loop in your head."(Science Friday)Since this scientist have not been able to tell when they can happen, they appear at random so it's hard to track when they come and go.

The dried glue droplet secretions on head of larvae were the most lethal factor for 1st and 2nd instar larvae in both lady beetle species. It caused molting failure, gummed up predator mouthparts or aphid stuck with predator larva. Similar effect of cornicle secretions has been reported only on Orius insidiosus Say (Butler & O’Neil 2006) and on parasitoids (Wu et al. 2010). This defense was less effective with the 3rd and 4th instars might due their size which demand more secretion to be smeared at a level that hinder the molting success or avert predation ability. Along with the direct defense of U. nigrotuberculatum, it seems to be also toxic for 1st and 2nd instar larvae of C. septempunctata and for the 1st instar of P. japonica. We assumed

The Indian meal moth, Plodia interpunctella (Hubner) is one of the most commonly reported pests of stored grains in the United States. In Pennsylvania it is not a major problem, but can be troublesome occasionally. Larvae of the Indian meal moth feed upon grains, grain products, dried fruits, nuts, cereals, and a variety of processed food products. The Indian meal moth is also a common pantry pest.