Burying beetle

Our Lady’s Bugs You probably wouldn’t believe me if I told you so, but I’ll take the risk of sounding insane. I believe ladybugs are my connection to faith. Based on that sentence alone I might’ve laughed and scoffed at myself too. Another self righteous bible thumper coming along, trying to convince the world of ridiculous proclamations. But as long as I believe it, that’s all that really matters. I’d never given the insect a second thought, it was like any other gross, crawling thing I saw in

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

The Skipper Butterfly is in the family Hesperiidae. They have a wingspan of 29 to 31 millimeters, 1.14 to 1.22 inches, and are 2.5 to 6 inches, 6.604 to 15.24 centimeters, in length. This butterfly’s appearance is different than other butterflies in many ways. The antennae club is hooked backwards like a crochet hook while the typical butterflies have club-like tips to their antennae. They have stockier bodies and larger compound eyes, and they have stronger wing muscles in the plump thorax, resembling

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

dead tree could retain its needles for as long as one year. Because the dead wood is dry it becomes very brittle. Pinewood nematode is transmitted from tree to tree by pine sawyer beetles which overwinter as larvae in dead pines or pine logs which still have the bark attached. After pupating, the adult pine sawyer beetles, carrying nematodes in their tracheae, fly to healthy host pine trees where the nematodes enter through feeding wounds. Pinewood nematodes migrate to resin canals where they feed

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