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    Coffee vs. Cacao

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    Coffee vs. Cacao: A case study from the Vietnamese Central Highlands. World Food and Fiber – PSSC392 Case Study #1 Final Report Introduction Dak Lak is the largest province in the Central Highland region of Vietnam. Due to its perfect climate‚ soil and topography for coffee production‚ Dak Lak’s economy is once based in agriculture and forestry with coffee cultivation the dominating industry. Despite signs of a long-term collapse in coffee prices‚ temporary profitable returns to coffee

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    Social Insects

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    Social Insects “The little things that run the world”- E.O. Wilson Social Insects I. Levels of sociality II. Castes and Polyethism III. Social insect examples IV. Ecological success Society • A group of individuals that belong to the same species and are organized in a cooperative manner. Aggregations • Non-social grouping of individuals Monarch butterflies aggregating Levels of Sociality • • • • • Solitary Subsocial Parasocial Eusocial Presocial Classification system

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    Bugs Are Insects

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    Review: Informational Book Review Bugs Are Insects- written by Anne Rockwell and illustrated by Steve Jenkins‚ published 2001. This is an informational book‚ which is intended for children between the ages 3 to 6yrs old. The book‚ Bugs Are Insects‚ talks about insects that are found in our everyday environment. In addition‚ the book briefly explains the basic characteristics of the insects. Before reading this book I would ask them: Name several insects that you are familiar with? Is the picture

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    Insect Essay

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    should eat insects if it helps save the Earth. Discuss Insect farming has been a popular alternative for the conventional animal farming for the people who live in developing countries get just enough food to survive. In this essay‚ I will discuss about the topic we should eat insect. Some people merely recognize the hideous appearance of insects that is main reason to not be able to eat them. Another reason is some experts warn that eating insects could be dangerous. Some insects carry diseases

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    Cacao Yield Case Study

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    Cacao Yield Maximizing yield for farmers has become the main objective in business agriculture and because of this there has been a frequent reoccurring theme of large-scale plantations being less efficient in terms of yield than small-scale farms. Specifically‚ the smaller cacao yield in the large plantation is due to biodiversity‚ natural habitats‚ and most importantly‚ community ecology. The cacao plant’s productivity is heavily dependent on their age‚ planting density‚ plant variety‚ soil

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    insects in the sea

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    Insects in the Sea After reading multiple discussion board posts‚ I realized that many students had great examples as to why insects are not found in the sea. I found three specific hypotheses that I supported. The fact that insects need oxygen to survive‚ their size ratio compared to their predators‚ and their inability to survive in salt were the three hypothesis of my choosing‚ First‚ the simple fact that insect need oxygen to survive. In the lectures‚ we discussed how some insects live

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    Insects as food

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    THE USE OF INSECTS AS A FOODSOURCE. IS IT THE DREAM OF IDEALISTS OR THE WAY OF THE FUTURE? 12/5/2013 THE USE OF INSECTS AS A FOOD SOURCE It is a fact that over seventy percent of the words populous derive some level of protein and nutrients from insect-based food sources. In this country‚ it is looked at as uncouth or taboos to even consider such an act as consuming

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    Insects Project

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    Insects Project 1. Orders Lepidoptera- Examples of this order found in Australia would be Abantiades Barcas‚ Barbifrontia and Callionyma sarcodes. The members of this order have 4 wings‚ which are all completely covered in small scales. All the adults in the Lepidoptera family start off as a caterpillar‚ which resembles a worm‚and grow up to be either a moth or a butterfly. The butterflies have very thin antennas and tend to fly during the day‚ while the moths have feathery antennas and are

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    Hum Of Insects

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    Hum of Insects – Robert Lynd As the hum of insects and noises of birds are associated with nature and seasons‚ so are they connected to our life‚ right from our childhood. When we grow up‚ these sounds occasionally pull us back to our childhood. In a way‚ our happiness‚ other than that achieved from people‚ has its origin in the nature‚ in spring and summer‚ in the hum and noises of insects and birds. The author begins with insects like bees‚ wasps and mosquitoes and analyse their behavior Insects

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    Social Insects

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    Social insects such as ants‚ bees‚ termites‚ and wasps‚ provide us with a powerful metaphor for creating decentralized problem-solving systems composed of simple‚ interacting‚ and often mobile‚ agents. The emergent collective intelligence of social insects lies not in complex individual capabilities but in networks of interactions that exist among individuals and between individuals and their colonies. The daily problems solved by a social insect colony include the following: finding food‚ building

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