Insects

dissecting microscope

a species of mosquitos, the female of the Anopheles mosquito which carries malaria

During the Vietnam War, the 17th parallel was the dividing line that separated one nation from another (North & South Vietnam); it hasn't existed since 1975.

The Witchetty lives in the roots of the Witchetty Bush, and is therefore called as the Witchetty grub. Witchetty grubs like to eat the wood among the roots of trees where they are usually found

Next to butterflies, dragonflies are some of the most colorful insects in the world. The darning needle dragonfly comes in several varieties and colors, one of the most striking is very bright red, with translucent wings.

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These chemicals are called insecticides.

the bug that can taste with its legs are called a crane fly

Insects and Lobsters

Squeezing any animal in the thorax would create distress. Since insects breathe through their skeleton squeezing them in the thorax does not interfere with breathing. However, squeezing the insect could kill it.

Insects don't have tentacles.

Octopuses do. They have 8.

A common house fly is a very small animal. In order to get an accurate measurement, you would have to use millimeters.

Yes, their bite contains a small amount of venom to paralyze their prey, which are small insects (usually ants). They rarely bite humans, and in cases where they do, the sting is normally harmless, similar to a bee sting, and wears off in a few hours.

Insects do not sink because of their size and weight. They are lighter than the water and are tiny so that what keeps them above the water. The way they move and swim also keeps them above the water.

Yes, rollie pollies, also known as pill bugs or woodlice, do mate. They are terrestrial crustaceans that reproduce sexually. They engage in mating behavior to produce offspring.

Turn on your porch light after sunset, and you will be treated to an aerial display by dozens, if not hundreds, of bugs. Artificial lights attract moths, flies, crane flies, mayflies, beetles, and all sorts of other insects. I often find frogs and other insect predators hanging around my porch at night, taking advantage of the easy pickings.

Unfortunately for the insects, their attraction to artificial light is a cruel trick caused by our innovation moving faster than their evolution. Night flying insects evolved to navigate by the light of the moon. By keeping the moon's reflected light at a constant angle, the insects can maintain a steady flight path and a straight course.

Artificial lights interfere with an insect's ability to detect the moonlight. They appear brighter, and radiate their light in multiple directions. Once an insect flies close enough to a light bulb, it attempts to navigate by way of the artificial light, rather than the moon.

Since the light bulb radiates light on all sides, the insect simply cannot keep the light source at a constant angle, as it does with the moon. It attempts to navigate a straight path, but ends up caught in an endless spiral dance around the bulb.

Some scientists believe light pollution is leading to a decline in certain insects. Fireflies, for example, have difficulty identifying the flashes of other fireflies where artificial lights are present.

Palaeodictyoptera do not have six wings, the extra appendages are known as prothoracic paranotal lobes and are basically chitinous plates which may have been used by these prehistoric insects to stabilise flight profiles.

Fruitfly, scientifc name Drosophila melanogaster (dew-loving black-belly), is a model organism used in biological studies. Since they are small, easy to reproduce, has a decoded genome and has many mutant strains, it is most oftenly used in genetics and molecular biology studies involving a model multicellular eukaryotic organism. Other model organisms include Arabidopsis thaliana, a model multicellular plant, zebrafish, a model fish, rats and mice, model mammals, Escherichia coli, a model bacteria, saccharomyces cerevisiae (yeast), a model unicellular eukaryote, and T4 phage, a model virus.

The question is not "Where are the insects?" but rather "Are they disappearing?" In New England where I have lived for 50 years, the answer is yes. Car windshields and grills are clean most of the summer. We used to have to vacuum moths and other insects from between the screens of our house windows. Not now. Porch lights used to besurrounded by many varieties of interesting moths and we would love to look at the window screens and door screens to see these beautiful creatures. The hundreds of butterflies that used to fly like winged flowers in the meadows during my childhood are gone. Bird species are fast diminishing as well.

Last year I spoke to a young man who had driven coast to coast without having serious bug juice on his windshield. I have walked around parking lots inspecting cars (do this yourself) throughout the northeast and I see the same thing: Clean windshields, clean grills. This is very troubling.

Here in Dallas, TX my fruit trees and flowering shrubs are blooming, but there are no pollinators yet. There are no insects at all, that I have seen outside for several days, that I can remember. I am not sure if there is some poisoning here in Frisco, north of Dallas, or if there has just been a die back from the last warm spell hatching of insects, and the pollinators haven't come out yet for the spring.

Hemimetabolous insects have a gradual change from larva to adult and the larva resembles the adult it will become. Holometabgolous insects have a pupal instar and the larva does not resemble the adult.

Decapods are part of the arthropod family that has animals that have 10 legs. These animals include hermit crabs, porcelain crabs, and lobsters.

To catch fireflies in a jar, wait until dusk when they are most active. Approach them slowly and gently scoop them up into a jar. Be sure to poke holes in the lid of the jar for ventilation and release them back into the wild after observing them for a short period.

Yes, wings are found in insects, but not in chelicerates such as spiders and scorpions. Chelicerates have evolved a different body plan that does not include wings for flight.

the male slowworm is darker then the female. the female is brighter underneth then the male sloworm.

it is called pollen.