Blue Beetle

and put them in my backyard and continue on. Weeks progressed and I was in another state, holding my grandma’s hand by her bedside. She had wanted the women in the family to split up her jewelry to remember her by, and inevitably I was given a gaudy blue and gold ring with a ladybug on top. I smiled, remembering the many trips I took to my backyard a few weeks prior, and took it graciously. On February 7th, my grandma passed away in her sleep. My family and I grew distraught as we had been prepared

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

one or two ladybugs in your garden. These little bugs have various names depending on the region, in some places they are referred to as lady beetles, ladybirds or ladybird beetles. Scientifically they are mostly known as coccinelids and there are currently over 6000 species that have been identified. They are actually not bugs, but rather they are beetles. Their name has an interesting history, being traced back to Britain. In Britain Mary is known as Our Lady, and is often painted having a red

The ladybug is probably one of the most widely known insects throughout the United States. But did you know ladybugs practice cannibalism? Lady bugs seem basic but they are actually very interesting. There are 5000 different types of ladybugs. Lady bugs are one of the most beneficial insects. In this essay there are some new things you might learn about lady bugs. Lady bugs, or as known in the scientific world, coccinellidae, can range from about 2 to 10 mm in size, depending on species. Their

Plants and Insects There is no doubt that plants and insects have a long history together. It is an on-going relationship that can be beneficial or detrimental to both parties, depending on the situation. Insects pollinate plants, in return the plants provide food for insects. But the relationship between the two isn’t always so beneficial. Some insects can kill plants by taking away the essential nutrients away from the plant. There are also insects that are predators. The predator insects

Omnipresent Death Ted Kooser’s poem, “Surviving”, can be interpreted in many different ways. At first the poem seems to be about a man who is watching a bug being attentive to its surroundings and the bug having the fear of death. Another way to interpret this poem is that death is unrelenting. Even when the speaker seems to have ceased the image of death, it finds its way back. This is prevalent because the speaker starts talking about the fear of death, then altering the tone by describing this

are investigating how the flour beetle (Tribolium spp.) is affected by a variety of food resources. From earlier research conducted on ground beetles, the researchers found that beetles feast on a variety of food sources (Lovei & Sunderland, 1996). The reason we are studying this is because we believe that the type food source plays a dynamic role in flour beetle behavior. One question that lead us to perform this study is that food is a vital resource that beetles must have to survive. We wanted

I am writing this letter to you to inform and update our King’s Christian College Creek that is located in the middle of the school. As a class, we have conducted test to find the temperature, turbidity, pH, dissolved oxygen and found macroinvertebrates in the ecosystem. These tests has been conducted to figure out what we need to improve the ecosystem for a better habitat for the creatures living. We have conducted 4 chemical tests to figure out how to improve our King’s Christian College Creek

In our fourth and final lab for Biology 100, we are dealing with the beetle larva mealworms. This worm-like animal is, in fact, not a worm; they are larva for the tenebrionid beetle. These larvae are most commonly used in order to feed household pets. For example: reptiles, fish, and birds. Tenebrio larvae are also considered pests to the most businesses. 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

Spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana (Clemens)) outbreaks have an important effect on succession of balsam fir (Abies balsamea (L.) Mill.) and spruce (Picea spp.) stands in eastern Canadian forests (MacLean 2004). Spruce budworm feeds repeatedly on annual shoots of balsam fir and spruce and leads to large-scale growth reduction and mortality (MacLean and Ostaff 1989). When overstory tree mortality occurs from defoliation, it creates gaps that allow understory plants to get an opportunity to release