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!!!!!!!!!!!
- some soldier species shoot acid out its forehead
Peace for now~
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