as a human. B. Ants can lift 20 times their own body weight. C. The average life expectancy of an ant is 45-60 days. D. Ants use their antennae not only for touch‚ but also for their sense of smell. E. At night the worker ants move the eggs and larvae deep into the nest to protect them from the cold. II. Ants live in a society which is consisted of ants. A. There is a queen in each nest. The job of the queen is to lay eggs which the worker ants look after. B. Worker ants are sterile; they look
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body temperature? Use the words endotherm and ectotherm. 4. Digestive system: Compare and contrast the digestive system of an (amphibian) and a (mammal). How are they similar/different? 5. Respiration: How is the respiration system in amphibian larvae different from adult amphibians? (Think tadpole versus frog) 6. Circulation: Which organs that make up the
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butterfly include birds that can eat the butterfly without getting sick because they can tolerate the toxins in the butterfly. Some birds can even remove the toxins and continue to eat the butterfly. Other insects such as ants and wasps can eat the larvae of the butterfly because they also can tolerate the toxins. There is a great relationship between the monarch butterfly and the milkweed plant. The milkweed gives the butterfly the nectar it needs and the milkweed is now pollinated. The Monarch
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Salatin states on (Pollan pg 127) “Birds follow and clean up after herbivores.” And so during their turn in the pasture‚ the hens had performed several ecological services for the cattle as well as the grass: They’d picked the tasty grubs and fly larvae out of the cowpats‚ in the process spreading the
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a shell to protect them. Ants and Termites. Ants live together in large colonies and often make nest underground. The ant hill is full of passages and separate cells for eggs and food. Worker ants build the nests‚ gather food and look after the larvae that hatch from the eggs‚ until they turn into young ants. Termites are ant-like insects. They build huge mounds of earth from grains of soil. Inside live millions of termites in tunnels and chambers. Some mounds are over eight metres (26ft) high
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He was also a in a singing group at the time too. With being the son of traveling performers‚ he had first stepped foot on stage at the age of four. Cowboy Fact: Cattle Diseases Much of the heard had to be checked by the cowboys for screw worm larvae that were on the wounds that blowflies made. The disease that cattle had gotten was from a Texas “tick” that many cattle in Texas were immune to. Many states had passed laws to keep the Texas cattle out of their states for spread of the disease was
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Background Questions *Each lab partner should do this on their own 1. Define ethology and differentiate learned and innate behavior. Ethnology is the study of the traits of organisms and the dissimilarities and relations between them. Learned behavior is a behavior acquired because of an experience during the lifetime of an organism. An innate behavior is a behavior that is inherited and is done right the first time an organism is introduced to a stimulus. 2. Compare/contrast taxis and kinesis
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Phylum Mollusca Unit 4 Mollusk Introduction Phylum Mollusca Molluscus = soft Soft-bodied animals that usually have an internal or external shell. Includes snails‚ slugs‚ clams‚ squids‚ and octopi. True coelom Complex‚ interrelated organ systems Body Plan The body plan of most mollusks have 4 main parts: foot 2. mantle 3. shell 4. visceral mass 1. Foot: muscular; may be used for crawling‚ burrowing‚ or tentacles for capturing prey Mantle: thin tissue layer
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This chapter aims to show the product description of the product‚ supply and demand‚ supply versus the I. Product Description An insecticide is a pesticide used against insects. They include ovicides and larvicides used against the eggs and larvae of insects respectively. Insecticides are used in agriculture‚ medicine‚ industry‚ and general home use. The use of insecticides is believed to be one of the major factors behind the increase in agricultural productivity in the 20th century. Nearly
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is fertilized it has four stages it has to go through and develop by complete metamorphosis. From and egg‚ ants enter the larval stage which is particularly helpless‚ because it lacks legs entirely and it can’t care for itself. Food is given to the larvae by an ant in the colony by regurgitating food previously held in its crop for communal storage. This process is also used by adults to distribute food amongst themselves. All the ants work together to keep their colony populated. From the larval stage
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