Dung beetle

In Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis Gregor, a young traveling salesman who dutifully leaves the family apartment early every day for a job he hates so that he can pay off his father’s debts. Gregor is characterized as a bug because for the longest time he has felt nothing but pressure, so much pressure has been thrown at him that makes it him feel small. This portrays when Gregor changes into a being that is always alone and helpless, an insect. The first idea that leads to think Gregor is described

Sharon Begley, has written numerous articles to inform people of the importance of many species that are often overlooked. One article by Sharon Begley that focuses specifically on invertebrates that are at risk for extinction is “Praise the Humble Dung Beetle”. Throughout Begley’s writing, she argues the importance of “creepy crawlies” especially the

To conclude the paper, I will be comparing an object in today’s culture to the Ancient Egyptian scarab. A scarab is “an artistic depiction of the indigenous Egyptian dung beetle” according to Kathlyn Cooney. The dung beetle is an insect that rolls balls full of dungs, which is where it lays eggs. The Egyptians linked the beetle to the reproductive behavior of mythological cycles of solar death and rebirth. In addition, the Egyptians used the scarab as a symbol of the sun being pushed across the

Told in short story form, it replaces the grasshopper with a dung beetle, as the dung beetle was a more known animal in Rome that didn’t do much except roll around in dung. The change could also been seen as made because of what the grasshopper symbolizes in Roman Catholic religion. It is said that, when held by a child, the grasshopper symbolizes the conversion of

Can dung beetles battle global warming? I did not know dung is a name for farm animal poop and that methane from dung is responsible for about a third of global warming. It says that dung beetles are a weapon against global warming. They eliminate some of the methane in the dung. Dung beetles are declining because animal poop has anti-parasite drugs that make the beetles sick and now they are endangered. This fact helped me understand that if we keep giving animals special medicine dung beetles

for yourself. A major example of autogenesis is the scarab beetle, or dung beetle. The scarab beetle is thought to be brought into existence by itself because the ancient Egyptians viewed baby scarab beetles emerging from dung, with no obvious source as to their creator. In reality, the scarab beetle lays its young in the dung, which provides perfect conditions for the baby beetles to hatch. It is because of this that the scarab beetle is viewed as a symbol of autogenesis. The sun god, Re, also

Begley as she refers to animals in her article “Praise the Humble Dung Beetle.” Begley, an accomplished and award-winning science journalist, informs people on the threat of the plants and animals that are going extinct. In this article published in Newsweek, she persuades her audience that this threat of extinction is harming the environment and humankind and that it can be detrimental in many ways. In “Praise the Humble Dung Beetle,” Begley’s use of rhetorical appeals, her organization and syntax

The Skipper Butterfly is in the family Hesperiidae. They have a wingspan of 29 to 31 millimeters, 1.14 to 1.22 inches, and are 2.5 to 6 inches, 6.604 to 15.24 centimeters, in length. This butterfly’s appearance is different than other butterflies in many ways. The antennae club is hooked backwards like a crochet hook while the typical butterflies have club-like tips to their antennae. They have stockier bodies and larger compound eyes, and they have stronger wing muscles in the plump thorax, resembling

A major measure of biological fitness in a population is the fecundity, or reproductive success rate, of female organisms (Berger et al, 2008). For insects in particular many factors influence the number of eggs produced during the lifetime of a female. One key factor in insect reproduction is the ambient environmental temperature. Insects are ectothermic and therefore rely on their environment to provide the heat needed to carry out normal reproductive functions. Ambient heat dependence for insects

Zophobas morio Preference between a vanilla or coffee abstract Tylar Lauby Tuesdays at 6pm 23 September 2014 Abstract Zophobas morio, also known as mealworms, is the larva of the beetles called tenebrionid beetles. These beetles have a tendency of mainly eating grass and sticks, and they also tend to burrow. This lab study is to find out if the Z. morio prefer the smell of coffee abstract or the sweet vanilla abstract. The way we did this study was by taking a habitat with oats in it and see