...King and I would like to share some information about wasps, Voodoo wasps to be more precise. II. Intro to Wasps A. Wasp’s body is long and slender with a narrow waist, cylindrical legs and appears to be smooth-skinned and shiny. B. (Hand drawn) Diagram: A wasp like any insect has a body made up of three sections the head, thorax and abdomen. 1. Head: the brains of the operation a. Contains the mandibles (mouth) b. Antenna (sensory input) c. Compound eyes (very common in insects) d. Ocelli or simple eye 2. Thorax: does the heavy lifting a. Contains the forewings and hind wings b. Contains the three sets of legs that insects have c. Parts of the leg: foreleg, middle leg, hind leg, femur, tibia, tibal spur, tarsus, and tarsal claws. 3. Abdomen: protects the vital organs a. tergum: dorsal plate on abdomen b. Sternum: the breast bone c. Stinger: the weapon and way to transfer venom. C. Habits 1. Wasps are predators all they eat are other insects. a. caterpillars b. Flies c. Crickets d. And other bug sized creatures 2. They are generally a hiving species. a. Meaning they normally have a queen, a nest with drones (workers) and then nurses (females who care for the young) 3. Wasps are very aggressive. a. They will sting anything that gets near their hive multiple times. D. That is the basics of the wasp. III. Intro to Voodoo wasps A. Scientific name: Glytapanteles 1. They are...
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...ENGL 1301 Zombie Apocalypse: It takes a thief Are you prepared for a Zombie Apocalypse? Throughout the years, movies, television shows, and other miscellaneous things have heightened a large number of people’s suspicion about the possibility of disease-ridden humans taking over the world. In reality, that atrocity is not very far-fetched. First of all, what does the word zombie mean? There are several possible etymologies of the word zombie. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the word entered English circa 1871; it's derived from the Louisiana Creole or Haitian Creole zonbi, which in turn is of Bantu origin. A zonbi is a person who is believed to have died and been brought back to life without speech or free will. One possible origin is nzambi, the Kongo word meaning "spirit of a dead person." Another is jumbie, the West Indian term for "ghost.” With so many vaccines and medicines being mass produced without the sufficient steps taken to test the results, the chance of humans contracting unimaginable side effects is a rational possibility. All it takes is a host. “A reservoir host, or simply a reservoir, refers to a living (human, animal, insect, or plant) or non-living (soil, water) entity where a disease-causing organism can normally live and multiply. A host in which a parasite resides to sexual maturity is called a primary host, and a host in which a parasite spends only part of its life cycle or does not reach sexual maturity is called an intermediate...
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...Introduction Blue porch ceilings are quite prevalent along the east coast, there are many theories as to why, from keeping evil spirits out of the home to fooling spiders and wasps into thinking that the ceilings are actually the sky. Many old houses around the Victorian and Colonial era bear this color in their porches due to the popularity at the time, but even now the popularity of the color is prevalent. Besides keeping evil spirits from entering the homes and fooling bugs, the blue ceiling reminds the owners of the blue skies even on cloudy days. Hypothesis The blue paint used in the painting of porches of the Victorian and Colonial homes contains an ingredient that repels insects, a natural insecticide used in the popular paint color. Prediction If there is an ingredient that naturally repels insects in the blue paint then the results should be obvious. Painting two porches ceilings one with blue paint and another one with white paint should demonstrate that the one with blue paint is bug free during the time of the experiment. Controlled Experimental Method First three enclosures were built; enclosure number one ceiling is painted sky blue. Enclosure number two ceiling was painted with the same type of paint only white color. Enclosure number three was left unpainted. Then thirty wasps were collected and divided equally in the enclosures. Lastly the experiment will be repeated with spiders and mud daubers to ensure the accuracy of the experiment. The observation...
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...The proctodeum is not connected to the mid gut at the larval stage so as not to void feces into host (Gauld, Bolton, 1988). Most parasitoid wasp have very specific host interactions directly relative to the target host species. Parasitoid wasps differ from true parasites as they typically always kill their host. They spend a considerable amount of their life cycle in the single host. It has even been observed that many species targeting larva hosts will emerge from their egg very soon after being laid but wait for the host to reach a further stage in its life cycle before starting to feed off the host (Quicke, 1997, Sagarra, Vincent, 1999). This is just an example of the how particular this group has become in the category of ‘host predation’. Although the most common viewed type of host predation where a female wasp deliberately seeks out a particular host, paralyses it and oviposits its eggs can be considered the most unspecified type among parasitoids. The more specified types in this group would be for hosts that are concealed in wood, leaves or have someway made simple ovipositing impossible or highly difficult. i.e Orussidae practice vibrations to locate their target host in wood(Vilhelmsen, et...
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...Blue painted ceiling and wasps Kasia Nalbandian American Intercontinental University 3/24/2010 Abstract In this week individual project options are very interesting but unfortunately I have to choose only one option, and I choose the second experiment which is painting the porch ceiling sky blue can keep off wasps or other insects from building their nest or no?, I’m going to talk about my hypothesis and my outcome for the controlled experiment. Blue Painted Ceiling and Wasps Sky blue color paint will helps from keeping away the nests or any wasps and insects. Few years ago South Carolina country use sky blue color which is called (Haint Blue) for their porch ceiling believing sky blue color extend for light and fool the wasps or insects from making their nest, usually insects or wasp don’t build their nest under the sky it’s not a safe place for it, according to (Howard,2014, para 1). Hypothesis My hypothesis is that of course insects won’t make their nest under the sky and they think that it’s not a safe place for their nest, according my research about wasps I find out why beekeepers where white colors, the white color will keep wasps and bees off from you (Ecker, 2013, para 6). Prediction and outcome After my research I predict that the sky blue (Haint Blue) color helps human to keep wasps away from their houses, an as I said in my pervious paragraph that wasps don’t make nests under the sky it’s not...
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...Death is the subject in both Woolf’s essay “The Death of the Moth” and Petrunkevitch’s essay “The Spider and the Wasp”, yet each writer’s approach is significantly different. Woolf portrays death in a more meaningful, vague manner, whereas Petrunkevitch was very straightforward and precise, leaving very little to the imagination. However, not only do their tones differ, but their purposes do as well. By the end of reading “The Death of the Moth”, one can quickly understand that although Woolf is literally talking about the death of an insect, she is figuratively trying to relate these insects to us as humans. Unlike Woolf, Petrunkevitch is not looking for a deeper meaning behind anything but is describing to us the powerful relationship between...
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...someone’s identity, and even aspects of religion. Neither Banks nor Bennett makes a conclusive statement on a definitive cause of the formation of identity, although it can be argued that each work infers a definitive influencer on identity, with both authors choosing a somewhat nurture over nature stance on personal growth although the balance of the formation of identity is differing between the character that is being discussed. For almost all characters within the works education is the most aspect of their identity in some way. For the boys in “The History Boys” education defines them in that they are all school boys, they are defined by what they do, this is similar for the teachers in the play also, this is contrasting to Frank in “The Wasp Factory”, who is ultimately defined not by his education, but specifically his lack thereof. The characters of both works are in some way changed by their identity, and specifically a focus can be placed on Frank and Dakin. Frank is educated in some ways by his father, and this ultimately influence much of his mannerisms, and Dakin although being taught by both Hector and Irwin, seems to primarily favour Irwin’s education to influence his own. For Frank, this influence is...
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...Have you ever seen wasps close-up in your life? Well, I have. This entire scenario took place in Bossier City, Louisiana. As my “adventure” began, we just finished dinner. As my entire family went outside to feel the cool breeze, we took our Frisbee out and started to play with it. The Frisbee we played had LED lights so that when the Frisbee landed, it glowed. SMACK! I accidentally smacked my brother with the Frisbee when I threw it at him. Also, I accidently threw the Frisbee and hit our neighbor’s wasp nest. I thought they will be proud but it turned out that the wasps were kind of angry, by the sound they made. I took a bike ride around my neutral neighborhood. I took the bike ride to calm me down from all the homeworks my teachers...
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...Executive Summary 3 Benefits and Product Features 3 Product 5 What is the product/service/idea? 5 How does the product address consumers’ needs? 7 What types of consumers will you target? 8 How will you segment the market to get to those consumers? 8 Price 9 What will your major pricing strategy be? 9 WASP 1 Bundle: 3 year GI implant 9 WASP 2 Bundle: 8 month Oral implant 9 WASP 2bee Bundle: two consecutive 8 month Oral implants 10 What factors influenced your pricing strategy decision? 11 What price adjustment strategies will you choose? 11 Place 12 How will the product be manufactured? (For services, describe where the service will first develop.) 12 What type of channel system will you use, and why? What types of stores will the product be sold in? 13 Why would you decide to sell the product in certain stores and not in others? 13 Promotion 14 What will your IMC strategy be? Describe each component you plan on using. 14 SWOT analysis 15 Executive Summary Wellness Solutions is preparing to launch a new interactive devise that will provide assistance to those who are concerned about their health. Our product offers cutting-edge technology to keep track of the body’s caloric intake with the use of an implantable microchip embedded in the body. With the assistance from intricately designed software the microchip W.A.S.P® records daily calorie intake in great detail and will show vital nutritional deficits or overindulgences to the individual...
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...provide you with real-time inventory tracking. Part of the reason you are frustrated with your tracking system is due to the constant manual changes. Another issue is the lack of error monitoring. Since you manually enter your inventory information, you are the last line of defense when it comes to error monitoring. As your business expands, you will look to add employees. When this occurs, if your business still operates using Excel, you will have limited user access control, and this can cause fraud. By automating your inventory tracking system, you will save resources and expand your business capacity to handle growth and expansion. WASP Barcode automated inventory system was designed to connect your list to your sales and provide instant updates. This system is also capable of connecting to the internet to allow stock purchase orders. WASP Barcode also provides...
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...How could the strong personalities of the falcon, wasp, and raven ever work together? With the independence of the falcon, determination of the wasp, and selfishness of the raven, this collaboration seems almost impossible. However, in a harmonious land afar off, the unification of these creatures was necessary to keep the peace. The internally-contentious Favesp is the combination of the falcon, wasp, and raven created by the angry mother nature. This story depicts the unwillingness of our world to work through our differences and what could result if we fail to do so. In Hiraeth, a land in harmony with the spirit of its life and nature, animals were beginning to dispute for the first time. In desire to be revered, the three most superior creatures, the falcon, wasp, and raven, argued over who deserved the home of Mother Tree. Because of the stubbornness of these animals, what started out as a sophisticated debate soon turned into a vicious war. Fighting to the point of destruction and murder, Hiraeth was no longer a land of serenity and peace. No, what was once a place of unity and love, was now destroyed by malicious actions preceded by ignorant desires. As Mother Nature’s grief grew as the contention did, her anger was carefully kindled towards a plan of resolution of the conflict. Condemning the greed of the animals, she cursed...
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...particular case, are a weapon waiting to be used." Eleanor Roosevelt, 1942. The Women Pilots of America were a big impact during WWII because without them, thousands of airplanes wouldn’t have been flown to military bases nationwide. The WASPs were, not only the first women in history to be trained pilots, but they were also a very important asset to WWII because they helped fly airplanes to military bases, they were given new opportunities, and they proved to men that they could do anything they could do. During the 1940’s, the U.S. military was in search for new pilots to deliver airplanes to military bases due to the fact that they were quickly producing thousands of new airplanes. Without the need for more pilots, women wouldn’t have had the opportunity to show what they were capable of. More than 25,000 had applied for the pilot training program, but only 1,830 women were accepted. The women who were accepted had to go through 200 hours of certified flight time. It was later decided that they would only need 35 hours of certified flight time. These women also flew over 60 million miles of operational flights to factories and military bases. Records showed women pilots had better performances than male pilots. “There was a group of WASP sent to a B-26 school to get checked out and they were met by the officer instructor. He said, ‘I’m not going to teach any damn women how to fly.’ But it was an order, so he had to. Men refused to teach women how to fly a plane, only because...
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...Phylogenetic analysis suggests that fig pollination has only evolved once. This is probably due to relationship being highly specific with the pollinators being highly host specific with morphological adaptions and life cycles which depend completely on their host and with pollination of the fig dependent on its pollinators. Along with these pollinator exists non-pollinating wasps (e.g, Apocryptophagus) which compete with pollinating wasps for fig hosts, this competition weakens the mutualistic relationship. The diversification of figs and its pollinators is taught to have been caused by co-speciation along with parallel radiation, but due to the tight relationship between pollinators and its host fig it is taught that this hinders speciation separately from each other suggesting co-speciation as a means of evolution. In contrast non-pollinating wasps and parasites are not constrained to such tightly matched speciation of their host...
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...class, because incorrect categorizations will result in unsound conclusions. For deductive reasoning to be sound, the original hypothesis or generalization also must be correct. A logical deduction can be made from any generalization, even if it is not true. If the generalization is wrong, though, the specific conclusion can be logical and valid but still can be incorrect.One can better understand deductive reasoning by looking at examples. A generalization might be something such as, "All wasps have stingers." The logical conclusion of a specific instance would then be, "That is a wasp, so it has a stinger." This is a valid deduction. The truth of the deduction, however, depends on whether the observed insect is, indeed, a wasp. People often use deductive reasoning without even knowing it. For example, a parent might say to a child, "Be careful of that wasp — it might sting you." The parent says this because he or she knows that wasps have stingers and, therefore, that the observed wasp has a stinger and might sting the...
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...similar process to Mitosis but its more special, which segregates one cope of each homologous chromosome into new gametes, which contains a single copy of chromosome. Each cell after cell division has half the number of chromosomes as the original parent cell. “What wasps can tell us about Sex” by Christoph Vorburger Researchers found out that wasp that can reproduce asexually and sexually in the course of evolution. They came up with various theories that explain the problem of comparison. The modes of Reproduction in wasp are different both in genetic difference and individual difference. “Females develop from fertilized eggs and makes from unfertilized eggs. I n sexual populations, females only produce daughter without fertilization” according to the Science Daily article by C. Vorburger. Using cross experiments, the traits that are inherited are recessively and traits that act like a single genetic factor. Asexually reproduction genetically happens over a short period of time because there is o genetic mixing and adaption conditions are difficult to adjust to. I thought this article was interesting because not only do they reproduce in one way but also they reproduce both way, Asexual and Sexual. Wasp of all insects has different techniques of adapting to nature’s reproduction cycle. “No Sex Please, We’re females” by John Stublar Henry Doorly Zoo in Nebraska found evidence that female hammerhead sharks reproduce sexually but recently found that they could be mated...
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