2.2 House Fly Identification
The common House fly is medium sized (1/6 to 1/4 inch long. The common house fly is a pest all over the world. The adult has the fourth wing vein sharply angled and four length-wise dark stripes on the top of the thorax. Its face has two velvety stripes which are silver above and gold below. The female fly has a much wider space between the eyes than the male. The house fly is often confused with the face fly which also infests structures. The face fly is similar in appearance, but a little larger and darker than the House Fly.
2.3 House Fly Biology & Habits
Each adult female begins laying eggs a few days after hatching, laying a total of five to six batches of 75 to 100 small white oval eggs. In warm weather these hatch in 12 to 24 hours into cream-colored larvae, which burrow into the food material on which they hatched. These larvae grow and pupate in 4 to 7 days in warm weather. The mature larva contracts until its skin forms a case about 1/4 inch long. Inside this case, the true pupa forms. When fully formed, the adult fly breaks open the end of the pupal case and emerges. It is ready to mate within in a few hours after merging. The hardened larval skin, which is left behind still exhibits most of the characteristics which are used in larval identification; thus determination can
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The common house fly is a pest all over the world. The adult has the fourth wing vein sharply angled and four lengthwise dark stripes on the top of the thorax. Its face has two velvety stripes, which are silver above and gold below(Dame et al., 2002). The female fly has a much wider space between the eyes than the male. The house fly is often confused with the face fly, which also infests structures. The face fly is similar in appearance, but a little larger and darker than the House Fly.(Tvedten, n.d.)
2.5.1 External
9. The gypsy moth has coloration protective that matches the foliage it eats. 10. Aesop’s grasshopper has become a symbol of a person heedless the consequences.
This graph shows that each ratio of beetles had a different mating time so there was no significant difference in the time of the mating ratio beetles. Discussion In experiment our hypothesis stated that the female beetle would lay more eggs on the northern bean because the northern bean looks and feels like the original beans the beetles came from. The original bean which is the black eye peas is where the beetles grew up on for many generations so they are successful and familiar with supported that the beetles would lay majority of their eggs on the Northern beans because the northern beans are close to what the bean beetles originated from, but as we analyzed the data it also showed that the bean beetled laid most of their beans on the Navy beans as well.
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
The eggs hatch into nymphs, the nymphs will reach full adulthood in only seven to ten days. If they don’t have blood from a host they will die in two days. I believe this section explains the lifespan if head lice and what they eat. To avoid getting head lice avoid head to head contact (sharing hats, combs, ex), because that is how lice get from host to host. If you think that you might have lice, but are not sure don’t treat yourself unless you know that you have live lice or unhatched eggs.
Once we were able to anesthetize the flies, we sort them by sex and placed them into their own assigned vials. The labels vials contained ( + for wild- type or wmf for mutant type), gender, data, and group initials. For this part of the
The two moths share a commonality: the primitive instinct to live. Moths use their wings to fly, to travel, to find food and shelter. However, when a moth’s wings are “a single nightmare clump still wracked with useless, frantic convulsions” (Dillard), the wings
Dog Fly Another of the dangerous pests near beaches is the dog fly. This fly is known to bite dogs and therefore gets its particular name but it does not hesitate to bit humans as well. They are a hazard slightly north but if the winds are right, the dog fly can be a pest in southwest Florida which is a persisting
Whereas for mating, they can be found in lekking habitats. Physical Description
In Karl Shapiro’s “The Fly,” the typical life of a fly is shown, and the speaker exhibits his disgust for the creature being described. In this six-stanza poem, the author utilizes several literary devices to give the reader a visual of the fly’s life, while also utilizing diction that elicits an abhorrent tone from the speaker. This harsh perspective of the fly’s life is used as justification for the speaker’s act of killing these flies, which are only doing what their creator intended, in multiple ways. Through the theme of man’s savagery, symbolism, and frequent utilization of similes, the author brings a poetic thought to the unusual subject of a fly’s life and his impact on humans. Throughout this piece of literary work, the theme of the savagery of humans is displayed with a tone of power and contempt.
She stands at 1 foot 2 inches tall. She has rich read feathers and long scaly legs. She enjoys getting caught in the rain. Her favorite foods are worms and chicken scraps.
The Moth set out walking. It could only heave the golden wrinkly clumps where its wings should have been; it could only crawl down the school driveway on its six frail legs" (Dillard 3). Both Staples and Dillard are broken down by societies problems before they even have a chance for their wings to expand and grow so they can fly
At the conclusion of each of the three trials, the number of caterpillars that showed peck marks was tallied. The average of the three trials revealed that 0.67 out of 8 patterned caterpillars had been pecked and 2.67 out of 8 of the solid colored caterpillars showed signs of avian predation (Figure 1). The average rate of avian predation for the three trials was 8.3% for the patterned caterpillars and 33.3% for the solid colored caterpillars. The number of patterned caterpillars pecked was less than the number of solid colored caterpillars pecked for all three trials. It was observed that there were no adhesive issues, weather related damage, or interference from tree
The TSA unknown organism B appearance was circular and yellow in color and slightly convex on the TSA plate. Organism A appearance was circular and seemed slightly raise on the TSA plate. On the first attempt I was not able to locate either organism at 100X lens so I had to preform a second steak plate and incubation time period. I was again able to isolate two separate colonies. Streak isolation on a nutrient plate agar was performed using ½ of organism from the original TSA plate where the colonies were isolated.
Honeybees are an example of a swarm because of the way a society of bees is able to reproduce and create a new colony. Honeybee colonies work together in order to survive as well as expanding in the idea of population as well as location. The swarming process is one that has been successful for many years for honeybees because of the way it enables the colonies to reproduce in an efficient and productive way. It also gives the bees the ability to move around and create new hives which then enables the honeybees to create new colonies which therefore expands their population. Swarming is an important part of honeybee survival because without it, the honeybees would be unable to reproduce and would therefore most likely go extinct if incapable
Nymphs who find enough food to reach adulthood measure 1/4 inch long and are the size of apple seeds. Individuals who have not recently fed are brown in color and shaped like an oval. If the insect is full from a recent blood meal, it may look more like a tiny round balloon. Freshly fed bed bugs appear red rather than brown. Adult bed bugs live for a year at room temperature (70 degrees Fahrenheit) and survive up to five months without a meal.