Pollinators

cacao-feeding insects. (B.) ARTIFICIAL CONTROL. The use of powerful insecticides, for destroying harmful insects in the cacao plantation is fraught with extreme danger because it may also destroy beneficial insects comprising predators, parasites and pollinators. The spraying and dusting of insecticides onto the leaves of cacao trees generally cause greater destruction of predators and parasites than of harmful insects. This is because the beneficial insects are much more mobile, continually…

natural products, they regulate the population densities of many potential pest species, they dispose of our wastes, bury the dead, recycle organic nutrients and maintain the population of other species at stable level. As consumers, scavengers, pollinators and decomposers, insects play a vital role in the biogeochemical cycling of nutrients besides becoming an important food source for a wide variety of other animal species. In some places like Thailand, Mexico, Laos and China, edible insects…

The National Park of American Samoa is a national park established on October 31, 1988. It is located in Polynesia, Oceania at latitude 13.8333°S, 171.7500° W American Samoa is made of seven islands which are Tutuila, Tau, Olosega, Ofu, Aunuu, Rose Atoll, and Swains Island. All of the island's main biomes are the tropical rainforest. American Samoa was not established as a national park until 1993 when the park signed a 50-year lease agreement with eight participating villages in Tutuila, Tau,…

guar bean. Honey bees contribute more than $15 billion to U.S. crop production alone. Though we wouldn’t starve without the help of the bees, we would lose a lot of the healthy food such as cherries, broccoli, onions and almonds that we eat. The pollinator crisis has now hit Europe and parts of Asia. Bees have been known to…

The Atlantic Coast Pipeline aims to increase availability of natural gas to the West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina. However, the sustainability of the pipeline, and its potential effects on the surrounding regions has caused much controversy among citizens and various stakeholder groups. The following serves to analyze this issue from the standpoint of environmental planning and sustainability. Specifically, four groups have taken a direct stance on the pipeline based on each of the 4…

Integuments surround the ovule closing off nearly all of the ovule except a small opening, known as the micropyle. The process creates the female gametophyte, the embryo sac, which among other things contains an egg and two polar nuclei. Wind or pollinators causes the pollen grain to land on the stigma where it forms the pollen tube which allows the two sperm to travel into the embryo sac. Next comes double fertilization…

Take a deep breath of the Stuffy and humid air, I were lost. All I felt was secluded and placid, when instantly a sense of agony coming from nowhere; Wings fluttered, I passed out…. *** It was the middle of 1940. France. The army of Charles de Gaulle has already lost the main battle, and panzer tanks were already on their way to Paris. The German soldiers were not showing any signs of mercy to the citizens of their defeated enemy. No hope was remained. "Go! All of you, now!" The boys…

Michael Heile Nelson 3 English 11 Honors April 29 2016 Honeybee Population Crisis Bees are very crucial to our society. They pollinate over $14 billion worth of crops each year (Ballaro and Warhol). With that amount of money you could buy almost 15 new Viking stadiums each year. They are so valuable to our society and if the bee population goes down, the human population will soon follow. Although many people are unaware of the shrinking bee population, scientific evidence has proven it to…

Allowing Renegade (Gardens) Saint Louis is home to “about 10,000 parcels of vacant land that have come to public ownership involuntarily through tax foreclosure”(Land). A majority of these vacant properties are in low-income neighborhoods, the residents of which, live at least a half mile (often more) away from a grocery store with fresh produce. Saint Louis as a result, is barren, as outlined by the graph provided by the USDA Economic Research Service (pictured right). This type of barrenness…

The “faster and cheaper” way of producing food for the large consuming global markets and human population: Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO’s), artificial foods that have been changed so that it can include the desirable traits of other foods. Although the idea behind GMO’s is morally good, it is actually doing more harm than good. GMO’s are exhausting the planet’s resources much more quickly than the planet can make up for. Animals feed on these resources but GMOs are creating an ecological…