communications occur between members of the same species. A worker honey bee may find a source of food. To tell other bees in the hive in what direction and how far the food is‚ the honeybee initiates a specific dance pattern . Ants leave an odor trail that the other ants can follow from the nest to a food source. The actions that animals take to give information are called signals or displays. There are five types of signals or displays: sound or vibration‚ visual‚ chemical‚ touching‚ and electric
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Author Mary Roach uses a surprising amount of humor as she delves into this repulsive topic. Write down one sentence from the article that you found particularly humorous and explain why you like that line. Why‚ do you suppose‚ Roach chose to add a humorous tone to this story? In other words‚ what does the use of humor add to this piece of writing. “If you think about how many of them it would take to make 2 pounds (and I advise you not to)‚ you will begin to appreciate the somewhat shocking dimensions
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termites‚ a small white insect which eats wood and live in hot countries‚ are the group of unsocial insects that are classified as the Epifamily Termitoidae. While termites are commonly known‚ especially in Australia‚ as "white ants"‚ they are only distantly related to the ants. A pheromone is any chemical substance released by an animal that serves to influence the behavior of other members of the same species. Furthermore‚ the pheromones are chemicals capable of acting outside the body of the secreting
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Facts about Pollution Pollution prevention |Interesting facts | |Did you know? | |Every year approximately 75‚000 litres of detergents and 12‚000 kilograms of dirt and other pollutants flow into North Shore | |City’s streams‚ lake and beaches from people washing their
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There are many other‚ more unexpected‚ locations at which pheromones are released or stored. These include the antennae of many parasitic wasps (Isidoro et al. 1996)‚ the cuticle of insects in the form of lipids (Jurenka et al. 2007)‚ venom glands of ants and mandibular glands of some flightless bees (Ayasse et al. 2001). Detection and tracking of pheromones Other location mechanisms include the orientation of an insect towards the source point of a pheromone. In the Desert Tenebrionid Beetle
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himself go. Eventually he had to inspire himself as he quoted in the book‚ “....While studying a red ant that was hauling a white speck‚ the bread of its living‚ pinched in its mouth. ….... I told myself to keep a steady weight on my shoulders and to stay out of trouble and run a straight line-to stay away from the police and the rumblings of vatos who have nothing to do.” Eddie compared himself to the red ant‚ he had to keep his head up and try his best. People might think that its Eddies fault for not
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and it means things are not what they seem. There’s more to everything than meets the eye. [S]He thinks in a much bigger perspective. He provides an excessive amount of examples. Examples that talk about things we can’t do if we were as small as ants compared to human size. And how he says many generations could have been born and died before a minute passes on Earth. It’s extraordinary that something like that could happen. I honestly think that in difference between Doyle’s and Cole’s perspective
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But this site is also meant to highlight a whole lot more interesting aspects on these insects‚ and feature many species which are NOT pests‚ and which are rare or will never be found in urban environments or human habitation. Second only to ants‚ termites are one of the most numerous insects on earth (number-wise)‚ but due to habitat destruction‚ and environmental degradation‚ some species appear to be declining. A few other species though‚ are thriving and proving to be troublesome pests
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extreme situation requiring the ultimate sacrifice of lives. Without the teamwork and personal sacrifices of these individuals‚ many more people would have perished. The smallest‚ yet equally complex‚ communities are found in the insect world. Bees‚ ants‚ and termites are unique in the sense that they must work together as communities to ensure their success. Each of these different communities require the cooperation of workers‚ foragers‚ soldiers‚ and a queen to ensure their collective success
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the owner of Tri-Plan Electronics. One day‚ he wakes up in a hospital to find out that he lost his hand during a squib accident. What is worse is that he is told by the doctors that he is a human-appearing organic robot‚ something called an Electric Ant. Then he learns from a futuristic computer that his subjective reality is being fed from micro-punched reality tape in his chest cavity. He conducts experiments on himself‚ first by glazing over a couple of holes and then punching new holes to see what
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