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Beetles
Order Coleoptera is the largest group in the animal kingdom. With over 230 families and more than 350,000 know species, this category is where you need to be to get your questions answered about beetles.
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If you must know the common everyday ladybug is red with black spots but there are pink colored ones too.
Do you have a photo of a black lady bug?
I do not have a picture of a black ladybird, however when a mummy and a daddy love each other very much it is inevitable that they have a kid.
Can you drown Japanese beetles?
No, a Japanese beetle cannot swim.
Specifically, the insect in question (Popillia japonica) can be said to know how to tread water. Japanese beetles do not number among the water-adapted beetles. They manage to stay afloat by moving their legs until they drown.
How do you tell a mealworm beetles gender?
To find gender turn your mealworm on its back, or dorsal, side to get a clear view of its legs. You will see three pairs of legs. One end of the mealworm will be close to the legs. This is the mealworm's head. The other end is the mealworm's tail.
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Keep the mealworm on it's back so that you can observe the belly, or ventral side. You want to identify the segments, which are referred to as sternites. Since the body is only about an inch long, a microscope or magnifying glass will help you clearly see the tiny sternites.
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Count down seven sternites beginning at the head of the mealworm.
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Look for swelling just below the seventh sternite. Female mealworms have large swelling in this area along with two protruding nipples referred to as papillae. The best way to determine if the mealworm is a male is to observe the absence of the swelling and protruding nipples.
How do you get rid of click beetles?
Drenches, predators, and repellents are ways to control beetles. Soil drenches can be applied to protect plant roots from sub-surface and surface predators. The introduction of natural enemies, the planting of geranium, larkspur, and smartweed, and the use of horticultural oils and insecticidal soaps work together to control beetle populations.
yes a Firefly is a bettle because it's not in the Fly Order.
Are orange lady bugs poisionus?
No. Ladybugs are not poisonous to humans. However, they can have toxic effects on some animals. Ladybugs have a foul odor which deters some predators from eating them and their bright colors also help as a deterrent. In nature, red and orange, are warning colors that indicate to another animal or insect that the potential "lunch item" might not be a good choice.
What makes fireflies and glow worms luminescent?
They glow due to a chemical reaction in their body. The link at the bottom of this page will take you to a good article on fireflies.
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Fireflies glow because they have different chemicals in their bodies. When combined, there's a chemical reaction and they glow.
To be more specific, cells in the firefly's abdomen produce luciferin and that creates luciferase, an enzyme. The luciferin combines with oxygen and forms oxyluciferin, which is inactive, but luciferase speeds up the reactions. Luciferin combines with ATP (adenosine triphosphate) and luciferyl adenylate and PP(pyrophosphate) are produced.
Oxygen and luciferyl adenylate mix to produce oxyluciferin and AMP (adenosine monophosphate). Finally, it starts to glow.
There are also uric acid crystals produced by the abdominal cells that help the light reflect away.
Read more: How_do_fireflies_glow
How many wings does a ladybird have?
A ladybug has 4 wings. One pair is hardened, and are called the elytra, the other pair are hidden underneath the elytra, except when flying.
How do ladybugs protect themselves?
Ladybugs defenses are putting very smelly and bad tasting blood on whereever it can on the enemy.! Another one is playing dead
yes beetles do defecate like any other animal or insect they defecate in small portions because their amune system tells them that they dont really eat much .
What is a group of beetles called?
Beetles are like all insects, they have a head, thorax, and abdomen, and six legs. Their bodies tend to be very solid and tough. They have chewing mouthparts and often have powerful jaws.
Do unicorn beetles make good pets?
Yah you can.. They're harmless. Just feed them decaying wood. keep them in a well ventilated container though.
How can you tell the gender of a ladybird?
Ladybugs (Coccinellids) are found worldwide, with over 5,000 species described, more than 450 native to North America alone. To tell gender, you must first identify WHICH ladybug you are dealing with. Some ladybugs have 7 spots, some 11, some 5, some none. Gender can not be determined by spots.
Gender can be determined by the pronotum and/or facial markings, usually. To find the differences you have to look up the species (try to id it by a native insect guide or checklist, google ladybug on image search.)
Mealworms are the larvae(worm) of the Darkling Beetle also known by the scientific name Tenebrio Molitor. They are found naturally in the wild, usually where rotting trees or vegetation are present.
I found this information from two sites;
http://www.wormman.com
http://www.mealwormcompany.com
well it is hard to tell i think they eat grass or something or either they eat spiders yeah i think they eat tinsie winsie spiders
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Some do eat bugs. The Lady Bug, which is a beetle, loves a feast of plump aphids. Dung Beetles eat flies and parasitic worms.
A. They are not harmful to humans. Ladybugs are not poisonous to humans. However, they can have toxic effects on some animals. Ladybugs have a foul odor which deters some predators from eating them and their bright colors also help as a deterrent. In nature, red and orange, are warning colors that indicate to another animal or insect that the potential "lunch item" might not be a good choice. Lady bugs are widely used as an "organic" insect predator and are considered a beneficial insect.
Insects with more than 6 legs?
None. Insects always have 3 pairs of legs. That is one of the features that defines the word insect.
Creatures such as spiders, centipedes, millipedes and scorpions are no longer considered insects, although they were in Carolus Linnaeus's original classification system, as were allmembers of the phylum Arthropoda (which basically means "jointed leg"). Somewhere in the mid 1800s, zoologists - specifically entomologists - decided that only 6-legged animals would be included in the classification Insecta, and would here-ever-after be classified as Hexapoda. The spiders, et al, were dropped into their own categories.
As for the word "bug", it too is a specifically defined entomological term and does not refer to everything that crawls. It refers to only two suborders of the order Hemiptera, and does not include such well known "bugs" as the ladybug, the doodlebug or the sow bug (all of which, by the way, are insects).
Coccinellidae is a family of beetles, known variously as ladybirds (UK, Ireland, Australia, Pakistan, South Africa, New Zealand, India, Malta, parts of Canada), or ladybugs (North America). Scientists increasingly prefer the names ladybird beetles or lady beetles, as these insects are neither birds nor bugs. Lesser-used names include ladyclock, lady cow, and lady fly
Coccinellids are small insects, ranging from 1 mm to 10 mm (0.04 to 0.4 inches), and are commonly yellow, orange, or scarlet with small black spots on their wing covers, with black legs, head and antennae. A very large number of coccinellid species are mostly, or entirely, black, grey, or brown and may be difficult for non-entomologists to recognize as coccinellids. Conversely, there are many small beetles that are easily mistaken for coccinellids, such as the tortoise beetles.
What kind of beetles eat leaves?
There isn't just one kind of leaf beetle; there are numerous types, including the cottonwood leaf beetle, the imported willow leaf beetle, the elm leaf beetle, cereal leaf beetle and asparagus leaf beetle. Leaf beetles attack shrubs, trees, flowers and plants. The leaf beetle is considered a nuisance pest because it mostly causes aesthetic plant damage when it feeds. However, if it feeds on a tree that is in poor health it can cause the tree to die.
