Class 16

Bio creativity Unit: A day spent looking at bugs....

Today we looked at bugs, and a bunch of 'em. Our assignment was to look and list as many creative features bugs have developed as inspiration for a creative product/idea to present in the coming class periods. We looked at several bugs including giant grasshoppers, which i almost literally threw up looking at........monarch butterflies, caterpillars and we, of course, settled on looking at termites as our source of inspiration.

Here's some observation's I made while looking at an array of bug's:

• Praying Mantis have nearly 360 degree vision and can strike as fast as 1/100th of a second.
• Lady bugs wings fold and contract by a set of exterior muscles, that's why they take some time to pull in.
• Cicadas live most of their life underground.
• Butterflies eat toxic food so they become toxic to predators, colors indicate that....
• wings have no muscle

FUN FACT: successful mating plays into survival of the fittest

• Camel Cricket has 3, 4" syringes on its back
• also are stingers

FUN FACT: humidity/temp and species diversity have a direct relationship

TERMITES:

• 3 types of termites
• Queen is HUUUUUUUUGGGGGEE!!!!!!!!!!!
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• some soldier species shoot acid out its forehead

Peace for now~