Armadillidiidae Essays

Pill Bug Preference to Moist or Dry Environment Abstract: The Armadillidium vulgare, also called the pill bug, is a terrestrial crustacean. Crustaceans use their gills for respiration, meaning damp environments are a constraint to them. In this experiment two environmental variables were used moist and dry. The purpose was to see the behavioral adaptation of the crustaceans to the moist or dry environment and which they preferred. Due to their way of respirating it was hypothesized that they’ll

Introduction: I have chosen to look at a Bumble Bee’s Gas Exchange System. Their preferred habitat is in higher altitudes in the Northern hemisphere. They live in colonies of 50-500 underground with limited light. Their diet consists of eating pollen and drinking nectar. There is no need for a bee to hibernate as their life span is only 28 days long. They mate with the queen’s bee and she will later give birth to the multiple larvae. I have chosen to look at an Angler Fish’s Gas Exchange System

Pill bugs (Rollie Pollie): The Effect of Isopod Behavior on Wet vs Dry Stimuli Abstract: There are two main purposes for this experiment. First, isopods were observed so that their behavior could be recorded. Second, we exposed the isopods to a wet cotton ball and dry cotton ball, to determine which stimuli the pill bugs (or Rollie pollies) preferred over the other. In the experiment, five different pill bugs were removed from their usual habitat and placed in a choice chamber 1 pill bug at a time

Abstract: The main focus of this lab is on animal behaviors in terrestial isopods, also known as pillbugs. There are many purposes to this lab experiment. First, these pillbugs are put into four different types of enviroments, also known as chambers, light v. dark, hot vs. cold, moisture vs. dry, and lastly shelter vs. open. In these different chambers, there are 10 pillbugs, 5 placed into each individual chamber and then observed for up to 5 – 10 minutes. In this lab we observed that pillbugs prefer

Earlier on in the book, Atticus tells Scout and Jem that “it's a sin to kill a mockingbird,” which becomes a key lesson in the later chapters in many instances, and helps us to understand Harper Lee’s theme of innocents being strongly impacted by coming into contact with evil (119). The first example of this that appears in chapter 25 is when Scout and Jem are on the back porch, and Scout finds a roly-poly bug, which she decides to smash. Jem stops her, citing, “‘Because they don’t bother you,’”

worried about it. She is constantly seeing these little “ roly-polies” bugs around her plants and worries they may be harmful to her garden. So she decides to do some research, and she finds that the “roly-polies” are actually called Pillbug's or Armadillidiidae. In here research she finds that Pillbug's live just about anywhere there is moisture and dead plants to eat, but they are most common in forests and other humid habitats. This explains why there is always so many with a forest near by and great