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#Why Do Cicadas Invade In Such Crazy Numbers? Magicicada is a plague unlike any other here in the northeast.
And it is a plague with a reason: emerging in absurd over-the-top biblical numbers is the cicada's bizarre--but effective--means of survival.
The Magicicada the genus of cicada that's about to blanket the northeast United states is a very odd creature.
It is in the animal kingdom a very tasty treat which is unfortunate for the cicada but not so odd.
What's odd is that it has literally no protection against getting eaten: it has a mouth
The cicada sits there on a tree and makes noise to attract a mate while looking shiny and obvious and defenseless and delicious.
It is an idiot bug. Literally every insectivorous animal in the northeast--songbirds carnivorous birds (hawks owls) opossums foxes cats shrews snakes spiders and even dogs--will gorge on cicadas.
Billions of them will be eaten during the one summer when this brood--Brood II--emerges from the ground.
There could be up to 1. 5 million cicadas per acre so even a loss of 40 percent leaves well probably still a couple billion cicadas from this brood alone.
Gilbert estimates that the brood will need between 3000 and 4000 cicadas per acre to swamp the predators.
So each acre will need significantly more cicadas than that to survive to breed in that area again.
The Magicicada attack is an unusual event in the northeastern ecosystem; there are very few events in the lives of flora
So the ecosystem doesn't depend on the cicadas the same way some animals may rely on certain seasonal fruits
Instead the cicadas serve as a kind of bonus or treat. Redwing blackbirds and eastern bluebirds have been found to have much stronger and healthier broods in years that coincide with Magicicada's emergence as do mammals like foxes and raccoons.
But one of the more surprising beneficiaries are the trees. When cicadas lay eggs they use their proboscis to cut little slits in thin branches
and lay eggs in there. When the larvae hatch they simply plop down onto the ground bury themselves
there is a gene that differentiates the 17-year cicadas from the 13-year cicadas but says Gilbert we don't really have any way to see what the hell they're doing down there for 17 years.
Occasionally if too many cicadas make these slits in branches the branch can break and droop.
And the last year of the cicadas'lives underground is a bit harder on the tree
since the cicada larvae are eating more and more tree juices from the roots to get ready for their brief adulthood.
and the cicadas repay the trees. Cicadas molt when they emerge from the ground leaving behind a chitin exoskeleton clinging to trees.
That exoskeleton is very rich in nitrogen and when it eventually falls to the ground it decomposes
The bodies of the adult cicadas too if they're not eaten decompose in huge numbers making the soil from the year after a Magicicada emergence incredibly rich and fertile.
Here the writer uses a metaphor claiming cicadas are a plague so his usage of the phrase biblical numbers is appropriate.
Idiot bugs...hmmm makes you wonder. Today's magic is tomorrow's technology. uptil I looked at the paycheck
Their potential usefulness particularly their ability to pinpoint hot spots and fly in thick smoke that would ground other aircraft was shown in an Alaskan fire nearly four years ago.
so insect-based pizza may be the proteinaceous meal of choice.)Contractor has made already a chocolate printer as a proof of concept
The New york times reported insects appearing early and increased pollen allergies in some states. The state of Michigan sustained $500 million in fruit crop damage after an April frost destroyed the early flowerings of trees according to the U s. Geological Survey.
So an earlier blooming season for plants may not necessarily mean an earlier end to hibernation to pollinators.
or killing cockroaches if you follow the logic: Embyonic Stemcells are people. Do not try
and has the radar signature of a mosquito. Even the Romulans were detectable with a tacheon particle beam.
guilty or not kings and queen's every leader! that know's the term opec!
and fruit flies have found that the animals are able to sense nutrition independently of taste.
Although we can admire a stick insect that seems to flawlessly imitate a leafy twig in every detail down to the marks of faux bird droppings on its wings
The insect has to resist disease as well as blend into its background; the dog must run
The pigment used to form those dark specks on the insect is also useful in the insect immune system
Our bodies therefore reflect a continuously jury-rigged system with echoes of fish of fruit fly of lizard and mouse.
#Honeybees May be Dying Off Because They're Eating Inferior Honey Substituteshoney is good for you and it's a nice natural substitute for sweeteners like table sugar or high-fructose corn syrup.
For this reason bees are hired often out by the hive to pollinate farmers'fields. That means they are exposed to a wide range of pesticides meant to ward off other insects.
But honeybees throughout North america have been dying by the millions for a decade now often simply disappearing from their hives never to return.
The phenomenon now known as colony collapse disorder has many possible culprits from pathogens to pesticides.
I've been seeing articles about micro robots the size of flies great invention. How about manufacturing them by the zillions
Micro robots versus the bugs! Heck you could even use them for pollination!..If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth man would only have four years left to live...
Corn soybeans and all other Midwestern crops with GMO'S counterparts are self pollinating-hives are introduced not.
Once the bees have malnutrition ANYTHING could kill them easily. how bout we get one hive that only has gmo flowers
Our government office in charge being run by the person responsible for this assures that this is not going to go well for U s as to the honey not being feed left to the hives;
But the varied plant & insect species that live among the trees cannot be replaced so easily.
I'm always amused by the incredibly high and totally subjective financial values environmentalists place on things like trees plants insects or animals.
But sadly what they fail to appreciate is that throughout earth's history there have been numerous events that have resulted periodically in most of earth's plant/animal/insect species being wiped out.
if there is nothing else to choose From there should be thousands of insects on the ground today with different kinds of undeveloped wings that don't work
There are many insects that move slowly across the earth's surface and survive just fine without wings.
My observations as a child from playing with a variety of insects would lean me more toward an intelligent design but
This can result in moths that appear to change color over generations . or Birds with varying beak lengths that vary from island to island contingent on available food source.
But the moth is still a moth-the bird is still a bird. The fossil record does not support enough transitional species to date.
Honeybee Societya beehive buzzes with thousands of genetically similar female honeybees. Some nurse their queen and her eggs while others fly out in search of pollen and nectar.
For decades scientists knew that bees took on new jobs as they aged but a team of researchers recently discovered that chemical tags attached to the bees'DNA play an important role in determining their career paths.
if the hive requires it. Humans also carry epigenetic tags that may affect their behavior Scientists found methyl groups attached to a stress-hormone-receptor gene in child-abuse victims who committed suicide.
Base Population An average hive has 10000 to 50000 workers. At any given time foragers account for about 30 percent of the workforce
Swarming Effect When a queen gets old she flees the hive with a swarm of mostly nurse bees leaving the colony and its larvae to her successor.
In a lab experiment after half of a hive's population was taken away only 10 percent of foragers became nurses.
or toxins back to the hive they typically die out in the field. Queen When a colony's queen grows old
or infirm nurse bees secrete a royal jelly high in fatty acids and protein and feed it to a few larvae.
and produces a new queen who will spend her days laying thousands of genetically similar eggs.
Nurse Most female bees begin their lives as nurses who care for the queen and larvae.
They clean wax cells for the queen's eggs and feed the larvae honey and pollen.
and water outside the hive using the sun as their compass. However scientists have discovered this job change is flexible:
Drone Male honeybees which carry only one set of chromosomes fertilize the queen's eggs.
Queens per Hive: 1workers per Queen: 10000ã¢Â#Â0000average Lifespan of a Worker bee in Months:
3managed Honeybee Colonies in 2011 in the U s.:2. 49 Millionsee the rest of the articles from our 2013 How It Works section here
and see all of our April issue here. That bee research could have an impact on the treatment of depression (see conclusion in printed article)
and that bees are disappearing is not just alarming but critical to our survival as a species. Fascinating stuff-it would be interesting to understand more about this foragers are programmed to be frail issue as it seems to contradict the young bees that would normally become nurses immediately develop into foragers in the flowering season.
and important) species. In actual fact if you read the Garibaldi study published in Science on March 29 2013 Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance there is strong evidence to suggest that the media
#Building A Better Bed bug Trap An old folk remedy involving hairy bean leaves strewn around the bedroom may have a new life as a modern bed bug trap according to new research from the University of California Irvine
With insecticide resistance on the rise such a device could be a helpful tool for treating bed bug infestations.
or around the bed to keep bed bugs from biting as he traveled through Europe. In the early twentieth century the approach was also common throughout the Balkans according to a 1927 report from the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Army.
That report suggested the leaves stunned the bloodsucking bugs as they traveled from hiding places to their sleeping hosts during the night;
in the morning the bug-covered leaves were removed and burned (dense infestations could allegedly amass over two pounds of the buggy leaves in a single room).
American entomologists studying the effect in the 1940s noted the bed bugs could hardly be induced to move from the leaves
and microscopic images suggested that fine curved hairs called trichomes on the bottom of the leaves snagged the bugs'feet.
Now the California-Kentucky team has zoomed in even closer to reveal that the leaves'sharp trichomes actually pierce the bugs'feet like meat hooks immobilizing them.
and lead researcher of the new study You see this big muscular bug vigorously struggling
Loudon's team tipped single male bed bugs from a glass vial onto the bottom surface of kidney bean leaves
which usually captured the bugs within seconds (they used males rather than a mix of both sexes to avoid making baby bed bugs).
A low-vacuum scanning electron microscope (LV-SEM) allowed the researchers to examine the bugs while they were trapped still on the leaves.
The images revealed that the trichosomes sometimes hooked the bugs'feet like Velcro but more often went right through.
Some bugs were able to rip themselves free by breaking the trichome or rending their own flesh but they were recaptured usually.
While there is no evolutionary connection between bed bugs and bean leaves similar trichomes on other plants are known to capture ants aphids bees flies
and leafhoppers among other species. Scientists hypothesize that the structures first evolved for other reasons possibly to retain water with the defensive role coming later.
Of course keeping fresh bean leaves on hand isn't an easy bed bug fix says Loudon: The inconvenience of bean leaves is that not everyone wants them scattered around their bed room.
Synthetics mimicking the surface of the bean leaf however could be placed as a ring around the bed legs a floor mat at the door a strip on the bed board it could be something one put's in one's suitcase Loudon adds
since bed bugs really only get from one place to another by walking or being carried. Ideally a synthetic version would have the same geometry
and would move the same way as a bug walks through. To do this Loudon and her team used dental impression putty to create negative molds from the surface of the real bean leaves then filled these molds with epoxies of varying strengths and stiffnesses.
And unlike the natural trichomes which are hollow the synthetic versions were meant solid which they moved differently as the bugs walked through.
Of course a bed bug trap only works if a bed bug actually walks through it which means it is unlikely that even a crafty biomimetic material will be a final solution for a bed bug infestation
but instead one part of an approach that may include heat steam vacuuming and insecticides. Brooke Borel is a contributing editor at Popular Science
and is writing a book about bed bugs for the University of Chicago Press. Follow her on Twitter@brookeborel
. What a strange sound Don't let the bed bugs bite. as my mother or grandmother said to me as a child in a tone of voice that made no difference it suggested bugs might actually bite
me but rather just the tone of voice to give me peace and warmth to sleep be...
when she says there is a growing resistance on bed bugs by the use of pesticides. Any scientific break through are positive.
Its a step in the right direction for a more green method to get rid of bed bugs. Many people are looking for much more safe ways to get rid of bed bugs without the use of pesticides
and this could be one one day! I am gonna get ahead of the game and start to plan many many bean plants:).
I try to educate everyone on bed bug prevention methods on my free time or anything bed bug related
so if you have any bed bug questions and would like a professional opinion please visit my site at http://www. bedbugs-brooklyn. com
and click the contact us link and ask away. i try to help out any frantic people on my down time. my company does hundreds of bed bug services monthly so
i have had first experience on bed bug behaviors and methods. again brooke great story i look forward to another bed bug story from you:)
Sooooooo...Brook Borels big blue book of bed bugs...Its one of the best articles i have read about bed bugs.
Its is truely a great method to eradicate bed bug infestation through green methods without using pesticides.
But I will still say prevention is better than curewe should always take precaution to avoid bed bug problem.
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#You've Never Seen Chickens Look This Humanclick here to enter the gallerywho's the fairest fowl of all?
In her new book The Magnificent Chicken Brooklyn-based photographer Tamara Staples makes a strong case for the purebred Gallus gallus domesticus from the ultra-dignified Black Langshan Cockerel to the eccentric
Beaded Buff Laced Polish Frizzle Bantam Hen. If you have never been to a poultry show you've probably never even imagined chickens as diverse and stunning as the ones in Staples'portraits.
The book begins with an interview and essay by This American Life host Ira Glass.
#Something Is Killing Up to Half Of America's Bees There's some kind of environmental issue/plague/apocalypse killing America's honeybees
Before about 2005 beekeepers might lose 5 to 10 percent of their hives when winter rolled around.
which are very adaptable is also killing other bugs and animals then the statement âÂ#Âoe...
#The Chemistry of Kibble Visit Popularscience. com Thursday March 28 at noon EST for a live chat with Mary Roach.
They have sweet breath white teeth silky coats no hot spots no fleas bright eyes and calm energy.
One thing I notice is that some insects try desperately to land on the tarmac before being hit by a (my) car.
before 550 million years ago fish before 500 million years ago land plants before 475 million years ago insects
Insects s
#How To Build A 2, 073-Foot Skyscraperwhen it opens in 2014 the Shanghai Tower won't just be the world's second-tallest building.
Second if this also an apartment complex I trees also come with wildlife and bugs which is not good for people or the structure of the building.
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While the four and a half page paper is obviously short on specifics it initially describes expanded studies of the brains of the worm C. elegans the fruit fly Drosophila
and target insect or weed infestations he said. Ecologists and animal welfare agencies could use them to hunt down poachers and monitor savannah wildlife.
Many of the contaminants lurking on leafy greens are noroviruses--the bugs that cause what most of us call the stomach flu--deposited by food handlers according to a story in the New york times
By the way there are trillions of different critters bugs bacteria virus yeast and molds in the environment and yes birds bugs and animals dodo on our food too.
a cramped roach-ridden studio apartment in Manhattan's West Village will run you $36000 a year;
In the story orphaned James seeks refuge with a bunch of anthropomorphized insects inside a huge stone fruit which is toted then across the Atlantic ocean by a flock of seagulls.
$0 Thomas Hudson an engineer and bee keeper in Portland Oregon wanted to log his insects'comings
and goings so he built a row of 22 tunnels at the mouth of their hive.
Hudson maps hive patterns with the data. Researchers might use the device to study honeybee ecology.
TIME: 3 monthscost: $110mapping energy leaks in poorly insulated homes no longer requires hiring a technician.
and hunt insects. We speculate that these are evolved behaviors that in trees and the bats basically can t tell the difference between wind turbines
and streams to keep mosquitoes from breeding. Such practices would be frowned upon today but apparently these methods saved thousands of lives in the early 1900s.
In this essay from the September 1913 issue of Popular Science Dr. John Silas Lankford from the University of Texas describes how the country where death with grim terror reigned as king queen
The land of the jungle where the mosquito sang her weird song of death unmolested for four hundred years vying with the germs of dysentery typhoid fever and pneumonia in the destruction of human life;
the country where death with grim terror reigned as king queen and prime minister has yielded to modern methods of sanitation
In comparison with similar expenditures in American cities it should not be forgotten that practically nine-tenths of the cost of sanitation in the Zone is in mosquito fighting and quarantine.
and malarial mosquitos thrive in countless millions; the perpetual moisture warmth and rich soil lead to extravagant growth of hundreds of varieties of tropical grasses plants flowers vines and trees furnishing favorable harbor for the insects;
and there is an almost constant stream of decaying vegetable and animal matter pouring into lakes
Decaying animal matter leads to the generation of innumerable flies ever ready to convey disease
the cisterns puddles and lakes furnished convenient breeding places for mosquitos; the streets and sidewalks were in horrible condition
and flies literally swarmed over the food. The conditions were little better in Panama city and in the intermediate towns.
Gorgas himself says that the Americans could have done no better than The french without the knowledge of the mosquito as a disease carrier.
so that the operatives might be protected from mosquitoes during sleeping hours. Colon and Panama city are in the Zone
and marshes so that mosquitoes could not breed. Each little station or town was furnished a pure water supply brought down from the distant hills in some instances and provided with an efficient system of sewers or in some rare instances well arranged cesspools.
so that the mosquito could find no resting place. Plague-carrying rats and other vermin were destroyed.
This proposition was demonstrated beyond all question in a great educational campaign on the mosquito in the San antonio public schools several years ago in
which the mosquito was exterminated completely. It is an inspiring sight to witness this unseemly death-ridden tropical country changed into a place of beauty
He burst into hives his tongue swelled and he eventually passed out prompting his wife to call 911.
#Pest In Brazil Has evolved Resistance Against GMO Corncrop-munching caterpillars in Brazil are no longer put off by genetically modified plants designed to kill them Reuters reports.
and the pest in question is the Spodoptera frugiperda which is native to tropical regions of The americas.
The genes produce crystalline chemicals that kill insect larvae when they eat it. A larva that chows down on a Bt-crystal-producing GM plant soon stops eating.
A few days later it dies.**In addition to Bt corn Bt cotton is popular. Yet resistance to Bt crops has been occurring with pest species throughout the world.
The first publicly announced case of insects in a field evolving resistance to Bt plants occurred in India in 2009.
but not long afterward scientists noted that insects would likely evolve resistance to them. Controlling pests whether it's with microbes in a hospital
Companies are also likely developing new GMO crops perhaps with more insect toxins engineered into them to combat the newly evolved resistance.
There are some scientifically proven ways to slow bugs'ability to adapt to GMO toxins. Planting a mix of GMO
Both strategies lessen the deadly pressure against insects susceptible to Bt poisoning so they'll evolve more slowly.
*P. S. What about the butterflies?!:Most non-scientist Americans first learned about Bt corn when a study came out finding that pollen from the corn may kill caterpillars of the monarch butterfly.
Later studies have found that Bt corn doesn't significantly affect the numbers of monarch butterflies
although other modern farming practices may. Reuters i
#MERS Virus May be Able To Spread Through The Air Research strongly suggests that camels carry Middle east Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) a viral illness that has sickened nearly 700
resists insects Total U s. crop by acreage: 85%herbicide-tolerant; 76%insect-resistant Found in:
Processed foods such as crackers and cereals; corn on the cob; livestock feedcottontrait: Tolerates herbicides; resists insects Total U s. crop by acreage:
82%herbicide-tolerant; 75%insect-resistant Found in: Processed foods including salad dressings; livestock feedpapayatrait: Resists ringspot virus Total U s. crop by acreage:
More than 50%Found in: Whole fruit and other productsrapeseedtrait: Tolerates herbicides Total U s. crop by acreage:
In the announcement President Obama said he will also set aside $8 million for new honeybee habitats.
The initiative doesn't only focus on bees but also addresses other pollinators like butterflies. The Federal government will also work to restore the Monarch butterfly migration using research
and habitat improvements that will benefit Monarchs as well as other native pollinators and honey bees the statement said.
What's going on with bees? As the White house noted the decline is blamed on various factors from a lack of good habitat to exposure to certain pesticides to mite infestations and viruses.
It builds a spider-shaped decoy in its web out of dead insects and other detritus and
and is one of the most biodiverse places On earth with for example more than 1200 butterfly species alone.
Six months earlier while researching butterfly diversity Reeves discovered a similar spider in the jungles of the Philippines that likewise makes spider-shaped decoys in its web albeit of a slightly different shape.
and scare away damselflies which feed on small spiders but avoid larger ones. These insects in the family Pseudostigmatidae are the largest damselflies in the world.
To the untrained eye they resemble dragonflies. Our working hypothesis which we plan on testing is that the Cyclosa makes a decoy spider that is larger than the size of spiders Pseudostigmatids will take thereby gaining some protection from being eaten by these spider specialists says Ola Fincke a collaborating researcher at the University of Oklahoma
and the world expert on helicopter damselflies as Reeves puts it. Over the course of my trip and Reeves's month in the jungle he goes about laying the groundwork to test this hypothesis
and makes several interesting discoveries. First Reeves devised a method to collect the webs (which he doesn't want to share in detail for proprietary concerns) that he will use in the future to collect the animals and their silken firmaments and expose them to damselflies.
The idea is to see if the winged creatures pluck more spiders from webs where the decoys have been removed--that would provide evidence that the decoys are meant indeed to scare off the insects.
A big part of the trip has involved also the seemingly mundane task of photographing the spiders and their webs.
At one point an ornery curious scarlet macaw flies onto Reeves's shoulder and begins gnawing at the tooth of a Spinosaurus aegyptiacus (a type of dinosaur) on his necklace.
On the last night that we are both there Reeves is still up photographing insects after the electricity in the center has turned off.
He consents and laughs his attention trained on his insect photo subject. Earlier he'd been photographing a brightly-colored fungus beetle for project called Meet Your Neighbors that's dedicated to reconnecting people with the wildlife on their own doorsteps
--and enriching their lives in the process according to the group's mission statement. It will be awhile before Reeves
When he returns to the jungle before long he will explore the eating habits of damselflies to see
and circumstance didn't allow for studying silk-henge small webby towers built by an as yet-unknown type of spider perhaps to defend eggs against wasps).
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