What animal society works in the following way?There is only one breeding female, the queen, and she’s pregnant more or less continuously, producing young as long as she lives. She’s larger than other members of her horde. The workers and…
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I’ve heard it said that the female is the most deadly in all biological species. This is certainly true of mosquitoes, for it is only the female that bites. Male mosquitoes are not even capable of biting, having a different…
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FIRE ANTS: PAINFUL AS THE NAME SUGGESTS Their name screams it all: FIRE ANTS. If you don’t know anything about them, millions of people in the southern U.S. do, having learned the hard way. Being mass-stung by an angry horde…
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TIGER BEETLES Their larvae are predators, as are the adults, although the larvae hunch motionless in vertical tunnels, waiting for prey to come along, while the adults actively hunt, chasing down prey by running and flying. If a military designer…
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Chimpanzees may be the closest things to a human, but their taste in women is the total opposite. Baggy eyes and a wrinkled face is the look the male chimps are looking far. If you are a lady chimp and…
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Although individually ants are small insects, they are very familiar, partly on their ability to inflict painful bites but mainly because of the huge number in which they occur and their highly developed social organization. In this last characteristic, they…
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Myrtlewood has a number of different names: bay laurel, pepperwood, and Oregon mytlewood. The wood became popular in woodworking in the 1900s. Blond to black are the colors of the wood. The minerals in the soil create the color of…
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Introduction to Stinging Nettles Urtica dioica or sting nettles as it’s more commonly known is a common plant that causes itching and irritation upon contact with skin. Stinging nettles achieves this by having many tiny stinging hairs called trichomes covering…
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Green fountain grass, or Pennisetum setaceum, is a perennial subtropical plant native to Africa, some parts of Asia and in portions of the middle east. It is a plant that is considered an invasive species in some states, such as California. In…
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Often mistaken for a common dandelion, sonchus arvensis is a medicinal plant known by many names. Field snow thistle, milk thistle, tree sow thistle, swine thistle, gutweed, dindle and corn snow thistle are all one single plant. Truthfully, in appearance…
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