Like any 90s kid‚ I played Sonic the Hedgehog religiously. He was uncannily fast‚ curled into a cool ball and tried his best to survive all of the obstacles in the game. Sadly‚ hedgehogs http://www.care2.com/greenliving/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-hedgehog-video.html in the U.K. don’t have Sonic’s super powers‚ and they have 2 major obstacles. What sounds like a video game quest is real life: Hedgehogs in the U.K. could go extinct in 10 short years‚ unless Brits do something now. What’s Hurting Hedgehogs
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Declination Of Bees Bees are one of the most hardest working creatures on the planet ‚and because of their arduous work ethic‚ we owe many thanks to this amazing yet unappreciated insect. Our lives and the whole world in general would be a much different place without this insect. Bee’s are responsible for pollinating more than 400 different agricultural types of plants. Many people are led to believe bees don’t matter and that there just normal insects. Yet much of human existence is presently
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Abstract The objective of this science fair project is to determine the effectiveness of using sugar to preserve and keep the flowers fresh for longer periods of time. The experiment will be carried out using flowers such as the pompons‚ alstroemeria‚ sunflowers and water containing different amounts of sugar Hypothesis Flowers that are in contact with a more concentrated sugar solution will be able to last longer. Background Keeping flowers fresh "Beautiful" and "sweet-smelling" are
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Colony Collapse Disorder is a phenomenon‚ which happens when the majority of the worker bees abandon a queen and vanish. They also leave behind a lot of nourishment and nurse bees to look after the staying immature bees and the queen. The hives cannot support themselves without worker bees‚ so they have chance to die. Colony Collapse Disorder have declined significantly over the last 5 years. It was already known in the apiculture field as different names. Since the great number of disappearance
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Introduction The pollination involves the transfer of pollen from male part of a plant‚ called stamen to the female part of the plant‚ known as carpel. This enables fertilization and sexual reproduction to occur. Pollen grains are contained within the pollen while the carpel contains the female gamete. In gymnosperms the pollen is directly applied to the ovule. The receptive part of the carpel is called a stigma in the flowers of angiosperms while the receptive part of the gymnosperm ovule
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environment to use and they should be banned. One of the reasons why pesticides should be banned would be the environmental damage they cause. For example‚ it is known that pesticides have been one of the leading causes for pollinator population decline. This is crucial because pollinators‚ like bees and butterflies‚ pollinate an estimated one-third of the global foods that we eat. Without them‚ a lot of foods that regularly appear on our plates would disappear. Since bees and butterflies are insects‚ the
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I have reviewed 3 literature research papers on “habitats and biodiversity in Pulau Ubin and its conservation efforts.” Introduction To conserve something is to preserve‚ restore and protect valuable resources such as the natural environment and its wildlife for future generation. Conservation is a vital element of sustainable development‚ it can lead to many desirable outcomes such as the increasing growing amount of species‚ builds awareness for the people and also provides an opportunity in education
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and pollinators. Following the introduction of this concept‚ Mrs. Carlson stated that more than 1 out of every 3 bites of food consumed by humans relies on bees and other pollinators. She continued to explain that synthetic pesticides can impact the health of our pollinators and farming monoculture results in hungry pollinators whenever the main commercial crop is out of flower. Mrs. Carlson then explained that Biodynamic farmers avoid synthetic pesticides that may be harmful to pollinators. That
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Taking a Flower Apart: SEPALS/PETALS‚ PISTIL/STAMENS‚ POLLINATORS/WIND‚ PISTIL/STAMEN. When we take a look at a flower‚ it is composed of many parts. Flowers have sepals‚ which are the leaves that open up. Above the sepals lie the petals‚ which carry the pistil and stamens. Sepals once covered the flower buds‚ but eventually open up. The petals are there to attract pollinators such as bees and humming birds. Petals attract pollinators so that they can transport pollen from flower to flower
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during wind and are transported to the stigma of another flower and garminates as it travels within a tube for pollen to the ovary’s ovules. Due to the inefficiency of wind pollination‚ a plant has to produce large amounts of pollin. Often‚ wind pollinators are not bright in colour because they do not have to attract animals. They are also not scented and do not produce nectar. Often‚ flowers are also grouped together in inflorenscences and have long stamens and pistils. A native Australian plant
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