...Abstract Houseflies and cockroaches are two of the most commonly noted pests in our households. Since these insects feed on human and pet foods, they serve as vectors for disease transmission. Chemical insecticides are usually used in many households in order to control these pests. But the high price and health problem from branded chemical insecticides gives dilemma to Filipino household. Respiratory diseases can also result from continuous use of these insecticides especially since chemical substance from the product are inhaled by a person. This study seeks the possibility of using the extracts of ginger and dalandan to repel and eliminate insects, particularly, houseflies and cockroaches. The Dalandan and Ginger extracts as an insecticidal spray can be possible by the botanical and chemical properties that can be found within the fruit and crop. Dalandan have a chemical property which is known as d-limonene that has the capacity to melt the protective wax coating of insects, affecting their respiratory system. Ginger contains gingerols and shogoals that give ginger its hot and warming qualities, responsible for their ability to suffocate the insects. In making the insect spray, the dalandan was squeezed in order to get its extract, while the extracts of ginger were juiced out by chopping the ginger into smaller pieces and squeezing it until the juices reached the measurement given. For additional d-limonene substance (orange oil) which was extracted from the...
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...the brain. Also, we have a need to make sense of our world and even while asleep. The brain takes these chaotic memories and creates a logical story line. This theory best explains my dream which I will describe as follows. In my dream, I met giant cockroaches which were taller than I was. I felt very scared because they were very big and they tried to attack me. I ran fast but I could not escape since there were many of them. Then I woke up with a start. On another day, I dreamed that I was driving on the road skillfully and quickly. While I drove past many cars from left to right and right to left, I felt very proud of my driving skill. Therefore, I will show the relation between real life and dream. In the first case, I had seen a cockroach while taking a shower before going to bed. It ran to my leg, and I very do not like them. That represents my concerns about cockroaches and I clearly remember according to the activation synthesis theory. The second dream happened when I was young. I wanted to be a sports car driver in that time because I thought it was very smart. Also at that time, I think about them a lot. It was explain why I dreamed about sports car. The two dreams explain that dreams come from different motivation, but they come from the real world in our memory according to the activation synthesis...
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...How to Control Pests Safely Getting Rid of Roaches and Mice A Healthy Homes Guide THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT of HEALTH and MENTAL HYGIENE Contents Why You Need This Guide How to Find Pests How to Control Pests Safely Step 1: Clean Up Step 2: Shut Pests Out Step 3: Starve Them and Parch Them How to Choose Safer Pest-Control Products For Cockroaches: dusts, gel baits, bait stations and sticky traps For Rodents: baits and traps When to Hire a Professional Why You Need This Guide Too many New Yorkers live in homes or buildings that have cockroaches, mice, or rats. Nobody wants to live with pests! Insects and rodents can contaminate food, damage homes, and make allergies and asthma worse. Chemicals people use to get rid of pests also cause problems. Pesticides can cling to carpets, furniture, and other surfaces, and many are dangerous to people and pets. The Poison Control Center takes about 1,000 reports of accidental pesticide poisonings or exposures every year – half of them to children under five. What Are People Doing Wrong? Many tenants, landlords, and pest control professionals make the same mistake: they turn to pesticides first. But chemicals kill only a small number of pests. Pests can become resistant, so the poison no longer kills them and their offspring. Pesticides – chemicals that kill pests – are often unnecessary. When they are needed, only safer products should be used. Why This Guide Works Good pest control gets to the root of...
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...| Roaches | The Apartment pest | | Timothy Osborne | 12/3/2012 | Roaches and other pest seem to be immune to most pesticides nowadays. In the past few years I have notice that regardless how much you bomb, spray or put out traps they always come back, sometimes with a vengeance. In most communities, mainly apartment complexes, management hire exterminators for preventative measures. But in most cases it’s already too late for that. In recent years there have been studies performed to see why this is and what can be done to fix this ongoing problem. Entomologists by the name of Jules Silverman and Donald N. Bieman conducted an experiment with German cockroaches that were gathered from apartments and a control group of cockroaches that were reared in a lab. Their findings were quite surprising as the insects grown in the lab had no preconceived notion that the poison/bait was dangerous the ones collected from the apartments would touch the bait with their antennas and quickly back off. The evidence gathered showed that the roaches that had been exposed to the different types of poison before were more weary and seemed to not be attracted to the glucose or sugar that had been contaminated by poison. Very few animals avoid glucose (Silverman 1993). This leads me to believe that over time insects and other pest are adapting to the use of pesticides that are normal used in apartments. The developments of other types of pesticides are being created and should be...
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...Background of the Study 1 2. Objective of the Study 2 3. Scope of the Study 3 CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW 5 1. Biology Of Cockroaches 5 2.2 Cockroaches in Rural and Urban Communities of Kwara State 10 2.3 Predisposing Factors for Cockroach Infestation 17 2.4 Public Health Implications of Cockroach Infestations 17 2.5 Controlling Cockroaches 18 CHAPTER THREE: MATERIALS AND METHODS 1. The Study Area 21 2. The Study Populations 22 3. Method Of Sample Collection 23 4. Method Of Sample Preservation 25 5. Data Collection Technique 25 6. Data Analysis Technique 26 CHAPTER FOUR: RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 4.1 Introduction 27 4.2 Results 28 4.3 Discussion of Results 44 CHAPTER FIVE: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 47 5.1 Conclusions 47 5.2 Recommendations 48 References 49 ABSTRACT The study is a comparative study that examine the population distribution of cockroaches in two separate communities mainly the Rural and the Urban community in Kwara State. It vividly examined some of the predisposing factors that exposes a particular location to cockroach...
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...Introduction The purpose of this lab was study animal locomotion in the Periplaneta americana (Palmetto Cockroach) and the Gromphadorhina portentosa (Madagascar Cockroach) across three different surfaces; smooth, American bark, and sandpaper. The Palmetto is known for its speed and ability to evade capture while the Madagascar stands out for its intimating hissing. Observing locomotion through three different gradients allowed us to the strengths and weakness’ in ability to maneuver between these two species. Methods One Palmetto and one Madagascar cockroach were used through each of the three surfaces. The placement of these roaches was parallel to that of a meter stick to ensure clarity of our video. Data was recorded through a high...
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...The Fate of A Cockroach A Modern Adaptation By Ray Alcodray (Adapted from the plays “Fate Of A Cockroach” and "Not A Thing Out of Place" by Tawfik Al-Hakim) Cast of Cockroaches King Queen Minister Savant Priest Cast of Humans Adil Samia Youssef Doctor Ray Alcodray 1420 Dacosta Dearborn, MI 48128 U.S.A. 313 563 4126 info@arabtheater.org The Fate of A Cockroach - Copyright Ray Alcodray 2003 Page 1 of 49 The play opens in the Cockroach kingdom. A place behind the wall of the home of Adil and Samia somewhere in the occupied lands of the Middle East. Lights Up KING: QUEEN: KING: QUEEN: KING: QUEEN: KING: QUEEN: Come along – It’s time for a day’s work. It’s not even dark yet! It will be any moment. Has the blinding light of day completely disappeared? Almost. Until it disappears completely, let me be, and don’t bother me. What laziness! What a state! I wasn’t sleeping you know. You must remember I have to make myself up. This beauty doesn’t come without a little effort. Don’t forget, I’m Queen! Heaven help all husbands. I’m the King. I’m exactly the same as you. There is a difference. And what might that difference be pray tell. My whiskers. Hah! Just as you have whiskers, so have I. Yes, but my whiskers are longer. That is a trifle of a difference. So it may seem to you. You mean to you. It’s your sick imagination that always makes it appear that there exists some difference between us. The difference is real – it can clearly be seen by anyone with eyes to see...
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...we will be looking at the effects of oxygen deprivation in cockroaches by putting petroleum jelly on the severed cockroach leg. The energy to operate the sodium potassium pump is created by ATP, and besides food we also need oxygen in order to produce ATP, making oxygen a necessity to humans and cockroaches alike. (Gage & Marzulla) Through this experiment, we may see the effects of not being able to breathe in oxygen. Oxygen deprivation affects us very negatively, as though we may be able to store up food for days, we cannot survive more than a dozen minutes without breathing. (Gage & Marzulla) Cockroaches breathe through spiracles, which appear as holes in the side of their body, and tubes called trachea deliver oxygen...
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...environments. They spend the daylight hours in dark, secluded sites under refrigerators, stoves, false bottoms in kitchen cabinets, in the backs of cabinets and in crevices between baseboards and floors or cabinets and walls. They may also be found behind pictures or within electronic equipment. A number of these openings will ultimately lead to voids in the stud walls. The insects leave these sites at night to forage for food and water. The presence of cockroaches during the day may indicate a large population. There are about 3,000 species of cockroaches in the world and about 50 occur in the United States. Of these 50 species, the three most common in the Northeast are the German cockroach, the American cockroach and the brownbanded cockroach. German Cockroach: Blattella germanica The German cockroach is 12 to 17 mm (1/2 to 5/8 inch) long, tan to light brown, and has two dark brown stripes on the body region (pronotal shield) just behind the head. Females will produce four to eight egg capsules during their lifetime, with each capsule containing approximately 40 eggs. The egg capsule is retained by the female until the eggs are ready to hatch, usually in 28 to 30 days. | German cockroaches are widespread and can be found in homes, restaurants, hospitals, nursing homes or apartments. Within these areas, the cockroaches prefer sites close to...
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...Llamas 1 Estefania Llamas CWL 100-01 Intro to World Lit. Professor Cooper M/W 9:30-10:45 am Class # 3837, Section 1 The Fate of the Cockroach Al-Hakim’s Fate of the Cockroach was first published in 1966. In my opinion, Hakim intended to portray humans as arrogant and self-centered. This play is a form of absurdist drama because it does not demonstrate some ideal of perfection, instead it demonstrates that people by nature are self-centered and power plays a vital role in this play. Another important factor is nurture vs. nature. I The beginning of the play displays power in the king and queen’s marriage. The king cockroach thinks he is better and the queen is mean to her husband, but she has more power than him. The king is admiring his long whiskers and she tells him to shut up and not to have pride in them. As a solution to defeat the ants, the minister cockroach suggests that they brainstorm what they do and don’t do, “Ants have discipline, they sacrifice and cockroaches do not (page 596).” The cockroaches argue to determine how to take action against the ants that are so organized and dependent on one another, while the cockroaches by nature self-reliant. For example, by nature I can say that I achieve success from my genetics or by nurture I achieved my success because of the environment or surroundings, in which I was taught. Llamas 2 On page 597, the savant says: “Yes, I once saw-a very long time ago, in the early days of my youth-several cockroaches gathered...
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...1. I think Christopher Plummer played the role of Professor Vladimir Nabokov very well in this film. His lecture was a straightforward summary about the story “The Metamorphosis”. His lecture helped me understand the story better by retelling the story in details. The drawings of the “beetle” help me visualize what kind of insect Gregor was and how Gregor would look out the window. The professor brought life to this story because of the way he explained it. 2. When I read the first sentence to the story I had no idea what this story would be about. The first sentence described a striking image to me when Gregor wakes up and “he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect” (pg. 428). When I first read this I kept wondering why Gregor turned into an insect overnight. I think Kafka chose an insect because insect are not species that are loved or cared for which could relate to how Gregor’s family members behaved towards him after he was transformed. At first all of the family members act sympathetic towards Gregor after his transformation but their feeling of sympathy change to feelings of disgust and ashamed. Grete becomes his caregiver and tries to figure out what kind of food he favors since his transformation but she can barely stand to be in the same room with him because of his appearance. The mother hopes Gregor will change back into his human form but she faints every time she sees him. The father shows the least sympathy and even attacks Gregor twice...
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...OLIVER TWIST Charles Dickens Plot Overview Oliver Twist is born in a workhouse in 1830s England. His mother, whose name no one knows, is found on the street and dies just after Oliver’s birth. Oliver spends the first nine years of his life in a badly run home for young orphans and then is transferred to a workhouse for adults. After the other boys bully Oliver into asking for more gruel at the end of a meal, Mr. Bumble, the parish beadle, offers five pounds to anyone who will take the boy away from the workhouse. Oliver narrowly escapes being apprenticed to a brutish chimney sweep and is eventually apprenticed to a local undertaker, Mr. Sowerberry. When the undertaker’s other apprentice, Noah Claypole, makes disparaging comments about Oliver’s mother, Oliver attacks him and incurs the Sowerberrys’ wrath. Desperate, Oliver runs away at dawn and travels toward London. Outside London, Oliver, starved and exhausted, meets Jack Dawkins, a boy his own age. Jack offers him shelter in the London house of his benefactor, Fagin. It turns out that Fagin is a career criminal who trains orphan boys to pick pockets for him. After a few days of training, Oliver is sent on a pickpocketing mission with two other boys. When he sees them swipe a handkerchief from an elderly gentleman, Oliver is horrified and runs off. He is caught but narrowly escapes being convicted of the theft. Mr. Brownlow, the man whose handkerchief was stolen, takes the feverish Oliver to his home and nurses him...
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...Food web A food web (or food cycle) is the natural interconnection of food chains and generally a graphical representation (usually an image) of what-eats-what in an ecological community. Another name for food web is a consumer-resource system. Ecologists can broadly lump all life forms into one of two categories called trophic levels: 1) the autotrophs, and 2) the heterotrophs. To maintain their bodies, grow, develop, and to reproduce, autotrophs produce organic matter from inorganic substances, including both minerals and gases such as carbon dioxide. These chemical reactions require energy, which mainly comes from the sun and largely by photosynthesis, although a very small amount comes from hydrothermal vents and hot springs. A gradient exists between trophic levels running from complete autotrophs that obtain their sole source of carbon from the atmosphere, to mixotrophs (such as carnivorous plants) that are autotrophic organisms that partially obtain organic matter from sources other than the atmosphere, and complete heterotrophs that must feed to obtain organic matter. The linkages in a food web illustrate the feeding pathways, such as where heterotrophs obtain organic matter by feeding on autotrophs and other heterotrophs. The food web is a simplified illustration of the various methods of feeding that links an ecosystem into a unified system of exchange. There are different kinds of feeding relations that can be roughly divided into herbivory, carnivory, scavenging and...
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...The Current War in Afghanistan Portfolio Causes: In 2001 Afghanistan was controlled by the Taliban. Under Taliban rule, Afghanistan had become home to various terrorist organizations/groups who trained and planned operations from the country. One of those organizations was called Al-Qaeda and were an extremist Islamic terror group lead by Osama Bin Laden. During the 90's they had carried out various attacks against US targets including bombing embassies and warships. Although, their previous activities were nothing compared to the amount of damage and huge loss of life suffered during 9/11. This left The world in disbelief and the population of the United states wanting justice. The various intelligence agencies were then able to workout that the attacks had been planned and organized from Afghanistan. This lead to George Bush declaring a war on terror and identified Afghanistan as their primary target. United States Involvement: The war in Afghanistan started in October 2001 when American and British forces invaded the country with the aim of arresting the Al-Qaeda leadership, including Bin-laden, removing the Taliban government from power who had harbored the terrorists and refused to co-operate. The operation was partly successful as Al-Qaeda's training camps were destroyed and several key leaders were killed although the main leader, Bin-Laden managed to escape. The Taliban government was then removed from power relatively quickly. The problem came with the fact that the...
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...DISPLAY BOARD ABSTRACT Cockroaches are a constant threat to humans; they spread diseases and are unsanitary. This cockroach problem is commonly addressed through the use of toxic pesticides, but the unfortunate truth is that these pesticides can also be harmful to humans and the environment. The researchers conducted a study to create a toxic-free cockroach killer using Eucalyptus Oil and Chili Peppers as ingredients. The researchers determined the most effective concentration of ingredients by performing a Preliminary Test. From the test they discovered that the concentration with the higher amount of Eucalyptus oil is most effective in killing cockroaches. They proceeded to conduct further experiments to compare the Formulated Cockroach Killer from a known Commercial Pesticide. 5 trials were performed, 10 cockroaches were tested with the Commercial Pesticide and another 10 for the Formulated Cockroach Killer. The Commercial Pesticide killed a higher quantity of cockroaches than the Formulated one. Data were collected and a T-test was performed. The T-test proved that the difference is statistically significant. Although the Commercial Pesticide was more effective, the Formulated Cockroach Killer was still able to kill cockroaches without the use of Toxic ingredients. Background Of The Study Cockroaches have adapted to survive in many environments. Once cockroaches invade your home, they can expose you to several kinds of diseases. The use of toxic pesticides to manage pest...
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