Polydesmus angustus
Flat-backed Millipede
Native to Northwestern Europe
The flat backed millipede has about twenty body segments. They often can be found living in loose soil and the way that their backs are ridged with all of the different body segments helps it manuever through the soil. We found ours after digging around in the soil. It also feeds on decaying plant materials, which fits in beacuse at the bottom of our cubic foot there are a bunch of decaying leaves and grasses.
Sparganophilus (Maybe)
Earth Worm
North America
They are true earth worms and can live in low oxygen areas. They often live by areas with constant supplies of water.
Spodoptera frugiperda
Fall Army Worm
Although the common name includes the word worm, it is actually a caterpillar. Eventually the fall army worm will transform into a moth. The army worm can be detrimental to crops especially when there are many. They will eat and eat until there is nothing left, and when nothing is left, they all pick up and move to the next available food source. There have been large infestations reported in Ethiopia(who had suffcient supplies to rid of the pests, and Somalia, Kenya, and Uganda who did not have sufficient supplies to rid of the pests. Tanzania has also experienced issues with the army worm. The army worms are used in the biomedical field of reasearch when they are trying to produce recombinant DNA because they have viruses that insects only get, which are called baculoviruses.
Fall Army Worm
Although the common name includes the word worm, it is actually a caterpillar. Eventually the fall army worm will transform into a moth. The army worm can be detrimental to crops especially when there are many. They will eat and eat until there is nothing left, and when nothing is left, they all pick up and move to the next available food source. There have been large infestations reported in Ethiopia(who had suffcient supplies to rid of the pests, and Somalia, Kenya, and Uganda who did not have sufficient supplies to rid of the pests. Tanzania has also experienced issues with the army worm. The army worms are used in the biomedical field of reasearch when they are trying to produce recombinant DNA because they have viruses that insects only get, which are called baculoviruses.
Blapstinus Aciculus
Darkling Beetle
Birds, lizards, sunspiders, and lizards will eat members of the darkling beetle family. Darkling beetles have many different variations and can be found world wide. The Darkling beetle starts out as a meal worm. They go through a process of transformation similar to how a caterpillar makes a cocoon and stays in there until it has transformed into a butterfly. Mature female darkling beetles live short lives of about 2 months, give or take, and lay around 400-500 eggs during that time.
Darkling Beetle
Birds, lizards, sunspiders, and lizards will eat members of the darkling beetle family. Darkling beetles have many different variations and can be found world wide. The Darkling beetle starts out as a meal worm. They go through a process of transformation similar to how a caterpillar makes a cocoon and stays in there until it has transformed into a butterfly. Mature female darkling beetles live short lives of about 2 months, give or take, and lay around 400-500 eggs during that time.
Annual Sowthistle
Sonchus oleraceus
Non-flowering Rose Bush
Roses are perrinials that are from the genus Rosa. With our specific rose I am not sure we can properly identif it as the rose is not flowering yet.
Roses are perrinials that are from the genus Rosa. With our specific rose I am not sure we can properly identif it as the rose is not flowering yet.
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