Insects Definition and 29 Threads

My apartment's balcony door is wide open more often than not. This time of year, that tends to mean that insects keep flying in and out. Most of them, or at least most of the ones that are large and/or loud enough for me to notice, are bee and wasp types. They behave quite differently from the...

Hello, I have been working on this subject but I am not sure how to deal with it. I am looking to prove how can vinegar attenuate the pain of a bee sting. I have chosen a specific vinegar that is of 6° and 50 ml and Know the molecular weight of acetic acid is 60g/mol. The bee sting contains...

Hello all, as my final project to attain my bachelors, I have tasked myself with designing some sort of device to collect insects from the canopy of soybean plants that can be suspended under a UAS (quad copter/drone). What I am trying to do is essentially build some sort suction device. The...

I just found this insect and I don't know what is it. It seems to be the larva of a fly or maybe a little butterfly. I live in Spain so it is fall. What should I do with it?

Similar to how some plant seed get spread to non-local areas, a percentage ofthe eggs of stick insects can survive passage through a birds gut. Science magazine news blurb here.

I was born in 1947. Are any insects that were alive then still alive today?

When insects find their way into my home, I usually trap them in a glass & chuck 'em outside, opposed to squishing the poor buggers. However I sometimes forget, & when I return several hours later, to my dismay, they have croaked it. I don't understand. Shouldn't there be enough oxygen in a...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170608124706.htm I have tried chocolate ants but i draw the line at eating other insects.

Hello, everyone. I'm not sure if this counts as "homework", since it's just a random question I have, but I don't think the topic of this thread is "deep" enough to be in another forum category, so I hope I placed this in the right place. Having said that, I wanted to ask the following.: Are...

Do creatures as tiny as flies feel sorrow, love, anger. Are their brains programmed to do most basic of tasks like finding food or do they exhibit some community behavior?

How many hertz can kill a flying house insects...

Will the high-voltage arc from a tesla coil zap flying insects like mosquitoes if they are close enough to it but are still airborne?

Are insects capable of feeling pain?

Termite ,ants are among those insects which could be used for mining exploration ,what other Insects (or animals)you think could be used and why? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121211095007.htm Thanks

Hey all! I am having a hard time finding a few specific answers, so thought I would give you biology nutz a question :) A insect, more specifically, a fly...Can anyone explain the biological/chemical properties of a flies circadian clock? What governs a flies biological clock in terms of...

Is it true that we swallow insects and spiders when we're sleeping?

How do they survive from being hit by (to them) huge water droplets. I just tried to wash a spider down the shower, and the little sod resisted my efforts and scampered away.

Explain HOW SOME INSECTS CAN WALK ON WATER EVEN THOUGH THEIR DENSITY IS GREATER THAN WATER

A rare species of insect about 1.5mm in diameter floats fully submerged just beneath the surface of the water in lakes and ponds. When threatened, it responds to danger by exuding a noxious substance from its tail that changes the surface tension on the skin of its tail. As a result the...

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/aps-gim100706.php" So, could we recreate these insects by selective breeding in high oxygen environment and/or using genetic manipulation techniques?

[SOLVED] Horsehoe Bats, Insects, Speed... and the Doppler Effect Homework Statement Horseshoe bats (genus Rhinolophus) emit sounds from their nostrils, then listen to the frequency of the sound reflected from their prey to determine the prey's speed. (The "horseshoe" that gives the bat its...

Yeah, I know that it's a weird question, but it's been bugging me (pardon the expression) all day. I've never actually seen one in the act. While I know that many tend to be inactive at night and during the winter, I've never heard or read anything to indicate that they're asleep rather than...

I've looked throughout my book for the formula, and I've looked online to see if there were similar problems so I could figure out how to do this, but I can't find anything. ** A bat can detect small objects, such as insects, whose size is approx. equal to one wavelength of the sound the bat...

Today is not very cool, it's hot. I went out with some of my friends to...look things. I went to a bush to see some strange flowers but when I got out, there are some black ant-like insects biting my arms. I went home and now looked again my arms, very very round red spots with black small...

"Insects depend on vortices to keep them aloft" As a kid, I remember learning that aerodynamics couldn't explain how bumblebees flew. Recently (2000), much light was shed on the subject (thread title quoted from link) : http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/March00/APS_Wang.hrs.html My...

I'm sure everyone's seen some dog crap lying on the street and a bunch of flies swarming around it, why does this happen? Are they after some left-over organic materials in the feces, or do they have any use for the inorganic waste products in their metabolism?

Could Insects Be Used as Bioweapons? April 8 — Sonny Ramaswamy is trying to walk a very fine line. He doesn't want to be seen as an alarmist, but he thinks people ought to know about the thought that keeps haunting him these days. Ramaswamy, who chairs the department of entomology at...

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