1. What insects did you catch? Summarize their role in the environment and/or interesting information about the order or species and its signifigance to humans. A. Butterfly-their role in the environment helps with flowers pollunating‚ and providing a source of fod for certain animals. If butterflies are missing from an environment you’ll be able to tell. Butterflies help us by contolling the pest and pollunating. B. Lacewing-their role in the environment is removing aphids from the environment.
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Through observation‚ it has been shown that the hypothesis stating that Total Kill would be a more successful herbicide was correct. Total Kill‚ which was the more expensive product of the two herbicides had ended up causing more damage to the impatiens. This was seen after the first day of spraying‚ although the Weed B Gone impatiens was affected by having its leaves start to droop downwards the Total Kill impatiens leaves were already losing their texture and rusting. Subsequently‚ the second day
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Raccoons‚ squirrels‚ bats and other animals are likely to find shelter in any available nesting places. Bats specifically tend to be found in attics‚ chimneys and other areas inside the home requiring professional bat control and removal. Not only do these animal offenders create a mess and odor from droppings‚ they also can cause health concerns. Protect your loved ones and your home from illness and duct work and insulation damage that can result in fire hazards in your home. If you’ve found that
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ENVS 1301 INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES DISCUSSION FORUM UNIT 5 1. Summarize‚ in Your own words (do not copy from the website) two of the methods for sustainable agriculture from “Solutions: Advance Sustainable Agriculture: Using science-based practices‚ we can produce abundant food while preserving our soil‚ air and water” including all hyperlinks used. 2. List one method that you think would work well in your local village/town/region. Why would it work well? Explain. 3. Please outline
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I am studying Sociology at Radford University. I hope to break the Cycle of Poverty in a case‚ or more‚ where I can ease or interrupt the impact of poverty on the growth of children in poor families. Both the social‚ and psychological‚ effect on the family‚ and the nutritional rank can influence growth. The major effect I hope to instill in the family is to teach them how‚ and how easy it is‚ to feed themselves using the state-the-art farming methods that have developed and increased since the
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Hazard Identification of the use of Malathion: Malathion is an insecticide regulated by the EPA and is used to control mosquitoes. The chemical is currently being used as a country wide go to for mosquito eradication. Malathion is sprayed across towns as a preventative of such occurrences. Through the dismemberment of malathion comes several health risks. It falls onto farm crops‚ contaminating our fruits and vegetables with the insecticide. Malathion is proven to be toxic by contact of skin‚ inhalation
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Hypothesis Statement Trees that exhibit gumming are more resistant to fusarium dieback caused by the polyphagous shot hole borer (PSHB) because the gum secreted acts as a defense against beetles that attempt to penetrate the bark‚ and as a result grant the tree faux resistance to the Fusarium euwallaceae fungi. Introduction Californian agriculture is at great risk because of a disease being spread by the Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer (PSHB)‚ Euwallacea sp. The PSHB is an ambrosia beetle
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Cara K. Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring Prompt Throughout time‚ American attitudes towards the importance of the environment have lessened. American farmers have begun to use poisons‚ such as parathion‚ which has begun killing animals and humans. Rachel Carson‚ a noted biologist‚ published her novel Silent Spring in 1962‚ in which she illustrates the need for American attitudes towards the environment needing to change‚ through understanding “plain folks”‚ an accusing tone‚ and descriptive imagery
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Did you know that over 1‚500 people die each day from cancer‚ that’s 564‚800 people in a year. Vampire bats should not be killed because they help humans and‚ they help the environment. Notes: I think that we should not kill the bats because they can help with AIDS or cancer and because of them we came up of the idea of sonar and it’s not their fault people are taking away their habitats so they have to move and the cattle may be the closest food source and there is only 3 species of bats that
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A music professor named David Dunn has received a patent on his procedures and technology for fighting bark beetles in the western United States. Dunn first became interested in the bark beetles and their ability to destroy drought weakened pine trees‚ when there was an influx of tree deaths in Northern New Mexico‚ where he was living at the time. Dunn began to wonder what that much biological activity sounded like‚ so he recorded the bark beetles using a listening device he built for ten dollars
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