Carpenter ant

blocking solution, fixative, and both primary and secondary antibodies, dehydrating the brains for too long. The initial hypothesis was that there would be a large trace of serotonin and synapsin staining in the mushroom bodies and optic lobes of both ant species as both areas of the brain are critical to their survival, with respect to olfactory sensitivity and visual processing (Heisenberg 1998; Holldobler 1976). But, the quality and trace of serotonin and synapsin staining was not significant across

It’s summer, and there you are, drinking a refreshing beverage in the great outdoors when suddenly you hear a buzz, see a flash of yellow and black… and yaow! … you’ve been stung. Was it a bee? Or a wasp? Maybe a hornet, or yellowjacket? If you didn’t get a good look at the tiny assassin, you could always -- you know, carefully -- try following it home, because it turns out you can learn a lot about a winged stinger by looking at it’s nest. But before we get into why that is, I want to talk a

Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard is a movie about Arthur, the protagonist, being tricked to go back to a world with minimoys living in it. The world of minimoys is tiny like the world of insects, where lots of different insects inside the movie are used as transportations and food production. The insects that appeared in this movie include bees, spiders, and also lady beetle, which are also the insects I will be writing on in the assignment. The first insect I have observed in this movie is the

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be an ant? Author of "The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher" Lewis Thomas, has. In his essay, he compares ants to humans. He has a theory that they are very similar. I believe this comparison is accurate one because both humans and ants act similar in the way they live, both are a stronger force when they work together, and both have a nature to cause destruction. He accomplishes driving his point home by exposing his readers to a new explanation

southeastern regions because of the warm and humid conditions. The termites in this experiment are housed inside a petri dish that can be described as pale insects three to twenty millimeters long in body length, and can also be commonly known as “white ants”. Termites live in organized colonies and are defined by divisions of labor. Termites are also considered to be social insects inside their colonies where they work together to bring food and water back to their colonies for survival. There are different

Adult black widow spiders have a shiny, black, rounded, circular abdomen and are about 1/3 inch long (about 1-1/2 inches when their legs are spread). Adult spiders have two reddish or yellowish triangles on their bottom which looks like an hourglass marking, and their body color is dark colored usually black or sometimes dark brown. They are usually recognized because of their red or red-orange hourglass design on the bottom of their abdomen. This pattern is changeable and may look

the discovery of red ants at Port Botany, inspectors are asking for homeowners to be vigilant for signs this insect has appeared on their property. While these are a problem in some parts of America, this type of ant is rarely found in Australia and the government would like to keep it that way. To help you know what you are looking for while you are outside doing some winter garden maintenance, these are the three main facts you need to know about red ants. Why Are Red Ants A Problem? There are

Ants are relatives of bees and wasps and like them they too live in colonies and each ant colony has several different kinds of ants. Although the ants in colony belong to the same species they look different. Ant colonies are described as ‘super organisms’ as a colony works in a unified manner. Mainly an ant colony consists of queen ants, drones or the male ants and worker ants. Ants have colonized every part of Earth except Antarctica and a few other extremely inhospitable lands. Ants

The focus on this procedure in to determine the behavior of killer yellow jackets, found by swarming procedures, which took for surprise on determining where the nest was located. This is driven by pheromones and chemicals dispersed by the same species. Thus helps finding the nest. Apart from different pheromones like ropalidine, which is known to be produced in the Dofour gland. Nothing has been knowing about this hormone but the chemicals and the hormones are still in proses of research. WASP SWARMING

that occur in our everyday lives. The run-through of this film involves a large colony of ants with the underlying issue being grasshoppers. According to imdb, “Each year, a small group of grass hoppers travel to the ant’s island to take the food that ants collected for them from the island. The grass hoppers normally “come, eat, and then leave” with no issues; however, when our main character, one of many ants in the colony, Flik accidentally knocks over the over