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changes in plant production and nutritional quality, changes in grasshopper growth and development rates, and changes in predation, parasitism, and pathogen infection rates.
Back on May 10, this is one of the things that Sam and I found under a rock. We didn't spot it at first, because it looked a great deal like a small plant root - at least until it moved. It's almost two centimeters long, but less than a millimeter wide. It's a soil centipede, order Geophilomorpha. These are actually getting close to deserving the name "centipede" ("hundred-legger"), because for this one I count 39 pairs of legs (78 legs total). Some other species of soil centipede actually do have over a hundred legs. An interesting point about centipedes (or at least, I think it is interesting): the different types of centipedes are actually quite distantly related to each other. Notice I said it was in the Order Geophilomorpha. The Stone Centipede that I posted a while back (and that we found under the same rock) is in the order Lithobiomorpha. Since they are in different orders, they are no more closely related to each other than, say, beetles are to butterflies. And other "myriapods", like millipedes, are about as closely related to centipedes as they are to lobsters or spiders. I understand that the biologists currently think that the "myriapods" are pretty much what the ancestral arthropods looked like. We evidently have a bunch of distantly-related groups that, even though their last common ancestor was a long time ago, didn't happen to evolve in a way that changed their body morphology too much. As a result, they still all look generally similar to each other even though they probably became separate groups sometime before there were dinosaurs. Anyway, soil centipedes are generally carnivorous, and run under leaf litter and down earthworm holes to eat other small things that they find underground. These are enough smaller than the stone centipedes that I can't really see them being any harm to anyone, and I don't see any sign of poison claws in these pictures (although, to be fair, the heads are so small that it's hard to see details). They evidently don't have eyes, because, well, why would they have them? What is there to see under a rock, anyway? Normally, you probably won't even notice these until you go specifically looking for them, but as soon as you look closely they are probably all over the place anytime you start digging.
Fleas don't possess compound eyes but they have only simple eyespots with a single biconvex lens & Spring tails have two eyes, but these two are actually clusters of up to 8 single eyes but they are not technically compound eyes.
There are several differences between a bird's and an insect's alimentary canals. A bird's begins with the beak while an insect's doesn't. A bird's alimentary canal has a tongue, pancreas and duodenum, while an insect's doesn't.
The process of shedding skin in insects is Ecdysis.
I think it may be a larder beetle - also known as Dermestes Lardarius.
An entomologist is a person who studies insects.
At planting time, put a 6" cylindrical ring made from aluminum foil in ground and around the base of the plant. Make sure about 3'' of the ring stays above ground.
Pill bugs eat rotting vegetation such as vegetables, fruits, decomposing leaves and other parts of dead plants that have accumulated in damp areas on the ground. You can read more about them at the related link.
The insects that migrates through the fall is called the- well I don't know why would you ask me such a thing I'm only 12 you meenys
this way the adult fill a different niche then the larvae and so do not compete with them.
No, but meditating beetles do. They eat their mates as well!
Actually I live in south central Montana and just found a praying mantis in my yard this past weekend Aug-2012. I wonder if its the heat that brought them this far north??
Since no one else answered the question I was asking I will take a stab at it myself. I have had occasion to study them further and in greater detail. The first clue was the microscopic forked structure I observed on their underside attached to the3rd abdominal segment. I now know this to be the "furcula" and the mysterious bug to be a Poduromorpha variety of springtail. The furcula is the little structure that they use to jump with. The real clue was when I put some lemon oil onto the windowsill in an attempt to discourage them. As the little bugs encountered the oil they were observed exhibiting a hopping behavior. I then googled springtails and there they were. I guess my biology minor in college has come in handy after all.
House gnats probably come from outside...... i think
generally they don't travel that far. look for rooms with the most activity and check for potential breeding sites, plants (fungus gnats), drains, plumbing leaks, dirty trash cans, etc.