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| attach eggs to hair/feathers of animals |
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| large ganglia often fused (eg cocrosches) |
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| walk via levator + depressor |
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| undirected (speed/frequency depends on intensity of stimulus) |
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| direction towards or away |
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| ant speeds up with exposure |
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| attraction to/from light. eg. catapillars dark, moths light |
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| compare light intensity by two eyes eg maggot |
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| stimulated by contact ahead, eg procession catapillars starve |
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| chemical scent/low pressure in air (downwind) eg locusts |
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| polarization eg mayflies lay eggs on asphalt |
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| simultaneous intensity by 2 sides of body; loss of 1 receptor = circular movements |
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| when lose 1 receptor, switch to only need one (eg honey bees) |
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| chemotaxis (olfaction), polarotaxis (to fly straight) |
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| plague locusts migrate across continents |
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| constant angle with sun/ other individuals |
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| at night, insects spiral into light based on angle (menotaxis) |
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| compensate for sun, know distance to hive, can learn other "dialects" of "language" |
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| distance and direction (wriggles and patterns) |
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| random movements, fractal running; no plan |
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| insect distribution ^ worldwide |
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| 70% honeybee's weight; important |
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| 1/2 minor pests, 1/3 harm, 1/4 beneficial |
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| entomophobia (urban vs rural?) |
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| risk of vector-borne diseases |
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| globalization, global warm, resistances |
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| mosquitos; tropics, latency, 3 mil die/yr; liver, temperature cycle with redbloodcell bursting. plasmodium mates inside mosquito |
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| mosquitos; a. aegypti, souther US, SE Asia, Australia. fever, rash, muscle/joint pain |
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| >1mosquito sp: Panama canal. bush/urban types, affects liver: bile |
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| lymphatic system, worm larvae carried by mosquitos |
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| sandflies carry flagellate; itch causes legions |
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| South Am. caused by nocturnal hemiptera |
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| affect cattle AND wild animals thus can't be eradicated; produce full pupae almost viviperous. trypanosoma --> weight loss |
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| blind, foam, lose hair, central Afr. |
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| irritating, suck blood, leave feces that itch/infect. transmit Hep B/maybe HIV |
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| louse-borne; suck blood, transfers rickettsia bacteria; evolved with ticks > small animals > fleas > humans > lice (die when infected) |
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| house flies; amoeba in feces; liver, lungs, brain |
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| horse, cattle internal parasite as larvae (human as well) |
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| sheep (strike) larvae bore into tissue near feces (tail) |
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| house flies : blindness: Africa MidAsia |
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| insects involved? long latency period, not contageous; Brasil, Philippines, India |
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| plague; 3 big plagues (1300-1400 black death bubonic: lymph nodes swell, skin lesions; necrotic, bleeding systemic disease) yersinia pestis bacteria by xenopsyla cheopis flea |
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| honey bees parasitized, in food to egg, inside pupae, adult (moth) |
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| many host plant sp, beetles, hemiptera, some hoppers, plants emit volatiles to combat |
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| insects come in waves (temp, geography, tissues) |
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| drugs, geography, hygene, stab wound areas, day/night, raining |
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| moist corpse: maggots (1st wave) |
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| some carrion beetles, most come later Dermestus: dry material |
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| parasitize existing carrion insects |
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| temp down + fleas leave, bloating gas release, putrefaction, color |
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| soft tissues (guts), lungs, brain, kidneys, muscles, uterus |
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| 1) eat carrion, beetles flies |
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| 3) eat either carrion or other insects |
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| 4) extension of environment in corpse (leave once poisons reach environ) |
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| social insect characteristics |
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• Cooperative brood care;
• Division of labor;
• Casts that differ reproductively;
• Overlapping generations;
• Altruistic behavior; |
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| aggregations: ladybugs, mayflies |
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| sense magnetic fields of Earth and build nest accordingly to avoid direct sunlight from North (parallel to equator) overlapping generations, 50/50% ratio male female. queen has king, decides which sex offspring. Hemimetabolous. Hymenoptera. |
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| not necessarily social insects; only aggregates |
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| live near roots of mangrove forests, can dive into water; parts of nests partially submerged |
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| large heads, huge eyes; ex of polymorphism |
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| main task to kill slavemaster queen; begged by slavemaster ants to give food |
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| produce sounds, grow fungus, nests ≤30 m diameter |
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| eg. honeypot ants. attack predators of plants, gain nectar |
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| nomadic, fractal running (random pattern) |
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| bumble bees, 10 collecting flights a day |
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| follows ant tracks; hard shell protects |
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| spiders, crickets, mantids, beetles, flies mimic shape of ant to protect/pray on ants |
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| beetle adopted into ant colony when chemical licked by ants |
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| copper butterflies (Lycaenidae) |
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| larvae secrete subduing fluid to ants, also vibrate (sound to communicate) |
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| mostly solitary; carnivorous and feed young insects |
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| examples of social insects |
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| Wasps, bumblebees, honeybees, termites, ants* must be |
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| not social since they do not have overlapping generations |
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| Embioptera; footspinners, Siberia |
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not fully social, develop microclimate make own nest and spin silk (in order not to dry out etc. silk galleries;
Hemimetabolous |
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| subsocial - the adults live in pairs and raise young; extreme brood care |
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| mouth-to-mouth (stomodeal) or anus-to-mouth (proctodeal) feeding in termites; flagellates digest cellulose (symbiosis |
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