Bean Beetle Lab Report

The ambrosia beetle used in this experiment will be Euwallacea sp, otherwise known as the PSHB jeopardizing many tree species in Southern California. Two tree species will be used in this experiment. Koelreuteria paniculata, the golden-rain tree, will be used as an example of a gumming tree and Persea americana, the avocado tree, will be used as the positive control for this experiment as it is a known species of tree endangered by the PSHB/Fusarium complex. The negative control would be a healthy, uninfected golden-rain tree. A total of 26 trees of each species will be assessed in order to perform reliable statistical analyses on the results obtained and to maintain a controlled number of specimens to ensure repeatability and reliability: 25 of each tree will be directly involved in the experiment and 1 of each will be the positive and negative controls.

What causes the strange actions of the afflicted? In the bread in Salem they used rye to make it. A disease that is known as rye disease which can cause many mental behaviors. Lyme disease in the air. The ticks that hold lyme disease were very common in the salem village area.

The female lays her eggs on the tree, and when they hatch the larvae drills itself under the bark where the trees nutrients are stored. The larvae then tunnels its way around the inside of the tree to get its necessary nutrients. the article"State: Invasive beetle in 6 counties." explains it as “The eggs hatch and the larvae bore into the bark to the fluid- conducting vessels underneath. The larvae feed and develop, cutting off the flow of nutrients and, eventually killing the tree.” This is the problem that nothern America is facing, which is proving difficult to

May to June is their preferred mating season. Whilst (Schlitter, 2015) states that they prefer autumn and summer seasons for mating. Male pangolins use urine to attract the female pangolin the urine a strong smell which the females can locate using its good sense of smell, though it does not occur frequently in the wild, two male pangolins within the same area may fight over a female in the mating season. Mating period generally lasts for three to five days. Female pangolins have two to five oestrous cycles during the mating season, and each will last for 11-26 days, until pregnancy (Cen et al. 2010).

Observation 6, explains that survival allows reproduction. The lab, Peppered Moth Activity, had two different types of moths; dark moths and light moths, and two different types of forests; light and dark. The dark forest is a great place for the darker moths to survive in because it helps them to camouflage and that gives them a great opportunity to reproduce their offsprings. While the lighter moths are being eaten,their population started disappearing. The dark moth parents are able genetically pass inheritable traits to their offspring, so they can also have an advantage to survive so they can also reproduce.

Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem “The Bean Eaters” utilizes imagery, repetition, and structure to explore themes of old age and financial struggle through the lense of an elderly couple. The imagery used in this poem helps to define the couple and the lives that they have led up until the point of time shown in the poem. “Plain chipware on a plain and creaking wood, /Tin flatware.” (Line 3-4) suggests that their daily dining is done on the same dishes that have been used for several years.

llowjacket and bee social structures The Eastern Yellowjacket ( Vespula maculifrons) and the Western honey bee (Apis mellifera) share many similarities and differences when it comes to their social dynamic and hierarchy. Both insects have similar classes from the queen to the worker and then finally the drones. All these different classes do almost the exact same job between the yellowjackets and the honey bees but the two do share major differences in timing and population size as well as a difference in ferocity between the two species.

The purpose of this lab was to change pennies from copper to silver to gold, like alchemists have attempted to do in history. Through the data and observations gathered throughout this experiment, it can be concluded that the pennies were not changed into a different element. For example, the density of the penny from 2005; which was the penny that was experimented on to see whether or not it could turn into silver; was 4.62 g/cm3 before the experiment and 4.89 g/cm3 by the end of the experiment. If this copper penny really would have turned into silver, then the density of the penny would be 10.49 g/cm3; which is the density of silver; by the end of the experiment. The penny may have turned silver in color, but this was only because it was plated in the zinc that was added to the beaker of water in the experiment.

Eat Your Bugs vs. Insect Farmers The texts “Eat Your Bugs” by Miguel Vila and Laura Allen and “Insect Farmers...” by The Washington Post have both similarities and differences. First, both articles show and explain that eating bugs is good for the environment. For example, on page 24 of “Eat Your Bugs” the text states “But the poisons wash away in the rain. They end up in rivers and kill fish and other living things.”

Although the queens have wings, they don’t swarm. They mate inside the nest. Queens often start new nests close to the old one and share workers from the original nest. The queens mate only one time and remain fertile afterward for their lifetime, laying as many as 60 eggs a day.

One of the most disregarded species that offers a remarkable role in our ecosystem are the dung beetles. The dung beetles are a globally distributed insect group. They feed on manure to provide food and housing and improve the soil structure of the area they are on. Dung beetles color ranges from red to brown to black. They are extremely abundant and a few dozen may be attracted to a single droppings in both temperate and tropical areas.

Amit Bhat Ms. Dinh English 9 Honors, Period 6 17 November 2015 Change Annotated Bibliography "All About Butterflies." University of Kentucky: College of Agriculture, 26 Aug. 2015. Web. 12 Nov. 2015. .

The common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, is a widely eaten food that is high in digestible fiber (crude fiber). The purpose of this study was to evaluate three different breeding methods (bulk-population, bulk within F2 families, single seed descent) for the genetic potential of the progeny, for the trait of crude fiber. The majority of the sources of variation, besides for the parents and parents by environment interaction, were found to be significant at a P < 0.01 level between the three breeding methods. This means that the three breeding methods do not have the same efficiency in generating progenies, there is variability among progenies within each of the three methods, and that there is a progeny by environment interaction for all three

Ladybugs are useful insects that eat aphids, and they have an average life cycle so that babies can be born. The ladybug has to go through a complete metamorphosis so that they can produce more ladybugs. When the ladybugs are born, they start out as eggs. “These eggs are called larva.

For example, for sexual and social recognition of partners. Within species-specific communication chemical signals also called pheromones are the signals carrier as it provides reliable information in the world of organisms. Lepidoptera insects are good examples of this. One of the species of Lepidopteran is Ostrinia Furnacalis. Ostrinia Furnacalis, a voracious agricultural pest, causes severe damage to economically