23. INTERACTION 1: Burdocks are a group of weeds and dispersal of their seeds is critical to their life cycle. Their seeds have spines with hooks that allow them to be picked up by the fur of animals passing by. The spines do not hurt the animals they attach to. INTERACTION 2: Wax moths live in the nests of honeybees.  Their larvae eat the stored honey of the bees, as well as the larvae of workers and reproductive honeybees.  The adults mate and disperse to lay eggs in new nests. INTERACTION 3:  Spider crabs live in shallow areas of the ocean floor, and greenish-brown algae lives on the crabs' backs, making the crabs blend in with their environment, and unnoticeable to predators. The algae gets a good place to live, and the crab gets camouflage. Which of the above interactions is antagonistic? a. Interaction 1 b Interactions 2 & 3 c Interaction 2 d Interaction 3 e Interactions 1 & 2

How does a pollinator actually pollinate? What specific pollinators do we have in Connecticut? Example (if source has an author and a date): Bittel, J. (2022, May 13). How predators get past the trickiest of defenses. National Geographic. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/how-predators-get-past-the-trickiest-of-def enses Example (if source has an author but no date): Bittel, J. How predators get past the trickiest of defenses. National Geographic. Accessed March 29, 2023 from https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/how-predators-get-past-the-trickiest-of-def enses * the date you use is today’s date Example (if source has a date but no author): How predators get past the trickiest of defenses. National Geographic. (2022, May13). https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/how-predators-get-past-the-trickiest-of-def enses Example (if source has no author and no date): How predators get past the trickiest of defenses. National Geographic. Accessed March…

Based on the text on roaches mating: 1. Predict what factors in the environment can be altered to decrease the survival and reproduction of the pest and why the reproduction will decrease

An adult female butterfly is actively flying from flower to flower while feeding on a very hot, sunny day in July.  The adult butterfly developed from an egg that was laid late in the season the previous year and it became cold while she was still in the caterpillar stage.  The caterpillar entered diapause and then resumed feeding and development the following spring when it became warmer.  Before entering diapause, the caterpillar was parasitized by a parasitoid wasp, which laid an egg in the caterpillar’s body, triggering an immune response that eventually killed the egg and allowed the caterpillar to complete its development and metamorphosis into an adult.  Based on this scenario, answer the following questions: 7.  Which of the following statements is correct for the humoral immune response of the butterfly? a.     Detection of bacterial, viral and fungal pathogens by hemagglutinins and fat body cells initiates the Toll pathway, resulting in the production of massive amounts of…