dangerous bugs

Hi everybody there,

Well, today like every Thursday is day of blog yeah!

Today, we will see the insects more dangerous of humans in everyday life.

I think that you know that the next bug is dangerous and is the mosquito; this insect is responsible for more than 300 million cases of malaria each year! And cause between one to three millions deaths, Can you believe this? Well, it is true and I mention the country of Malaria, because Malaria affects 10 percent of the population, making born more diseases. The 3,000 species of mosquitos do not carry the same diseases. Some diseases that they carry are dengue and yellow fever, encephalitis, elephantiasis, and canine heart worm. Yes! This little insect carries all this diseases.

Another bug that is dangerous and you can´t believe is the flies! Yes houseflies can spread some 200 pathogens and parasites to humans. But there is the tsetse fly, which is another type of fly, it spread the sleeping sickness. Caused by a parasite, sleeping sickness enters the central nervous system where it causes deep coma and death. About two hundred and fifty thousands of people die each year in Africa from sleeping sickness.

And I can continue with more and more bugs, but there are a lot! Like bed bugs, parasitic worms, fleas that are also leading killers of humans, they spread by rodents cause a plague. This plague in the fourth century it killed more than the three-quarters of the population of Europe, nowadays this plague is rare and can be treated.

 Well I hope that you learn more about insects today, and have a nice weekend.

A Bug's Life movie

Hi everyone!

Well, like every single week today is Thursday! In other words today is day of blog! Yeah! I hope you are having a nice week, and also I hope that your Halloween costume is ready! Halloween is near remembered.

Okay, today I was thinking “what I should write on my blog?” and when I was washing the movie of “127 hours” (which I recommend you) I said “oh! Why not talk about the movie of “A bug’s life”? And I don’t know why I think that, while I was washing other movie, but well what I can do.

So, here I am talking to you about this movie, “A Bug’s life” is based on insects that we already saw like the Hercules beetle, spiders, lady bugs, fire bugs, stick insects, mosquitoes, ants, and etc...

Well, I think that when we were kids, we think that all this kind of bugs were awesome and that they are real and we imagine that we were some of this insects, but then we were teenager we ask our self that if those insects can exist, and then if you were following this blog we discover that yes! There are lot kinds of strange insects and some of those strange bugs were on the movie.

I leave you with some videos about the movie, to remember your period of childhood, to laugh at little, and also to distract of your problems, and get out the stress

Have nice weekend with a lot of fun! And see you next week.

Bees can help us!

Hello everyone there!

Today I have no really wanted to write, was a busy day for me, but I hope you have had a great day!

And as each Thursday, today is Thursday of blog, yeah!

I know you are very enthusiastic to know what I am going to write and if you are not, well sorry no you already started to read this blog! So now you read! Just kidding you can go if you are not interest.

Well today I will speak of a very interesting topic and reach this issue because I did not know what else to talk on this blog and put it in Google "Insects cure", and try to guest and believe what it appear up!

It appeared therapy of Bees! Wondering how? Well, this is so, the bees have a sting in addition to defend and help the environment by pollinating, are good for curing diseases. You might wonder how? Well, these little insects have shown propolis and bee venom or bee venom (is the same), makes these insects substances considered in the future of natural medicines. "Apitherapy is the use of bee products that have natural properties to prevent or help cure some diseases," says an apitherapeutist, this therapy helps to treat illnesses such as diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, tennis elbow or bursitis, also the cardiovascular and hypertension, arrhythmias, arteriosclerosis and varicose veins, in skin problems like eczema, psoriasis, warts, and lung conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, emphysema and asthma, among others. Can you imagine that these little bees can help us in all this diseases? 

Well, this is all for today I see you next week! And have a nice weekend!

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Hi everyone there.

Well sorry for don´t post the last week but I was in exams, so I couldn’t, but now I´m here telling you more about estrange bugs and I will show you one insect that I found very scary.

Can you imagine an insect that looks like a flower? Well I going to tell you that this is true, its name is orchid mantis, as it name say this insect looks like an orchid, is usually found in Malaysia and Indonesia. They hide in orchid flowers waiting for delicious insects to eat.(cellania)

Investigating more about insects I found the assassin bugs, this insect is like one that I mentioned before, but it is not the same, the assassin bug uses the mouth to inject a toxin into it prey. This acts as an anesthetic. In the world there are around thousands of assassin bug species. Some of these insects only eat other insects but others attack reptiles, birds, mammals.(cellania)

I found a video by National Geographic that shows the power that assassin insect have. In this video can provoke you some chills, you see that this insect take blood from a bat and how this animal get paralyzed and can´t fly, also you found that  assassin bug fill it stomach like when you put gasoline to your car. I get scare about this insect because if bats are dangerous imagine this little insect!

So this is the video!

Well I hope this post were interest for you. Have a nice weekend! See you the next week!

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Bibliography

Cellania. "The Weirdest Insects in the World." Neatorama. AtTask, 8 Oct. 2007. Web. 30 Sept. 2011. <http://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/08/the-weirdest-insects-in-the-world/>.

Estrange Bugs!

Hi! Everyone, I hope you are having a great week, Today I will tell you about the most estrange bugs in the world.

One of these is the goliath beetles, which are native to the African tropics, they eat tree sap and fruit, and they can reach over 4 inches long and look at this you can have one as a pet only feed it with dog food! (But here in Monterrey I think that the clime is not good for these insects)(Cellania)

Other estrange bug, is one of the must strong in the world, it can support 850 times its own weight on its shell! Can you imagine this! This insects can grow over 6 inches in length, well know you want to know the name of this awesome insect well is its named Hercules beetle is like a kind of rhinoceros and live in South America, also this insect is eats only vegetation, but when it fight for a female he eat his opponent.(this insect is the one which appear in the a bug's life movie)(Cellania)

Can you imagine little ants torturing and trapping other insects? Well its true, tree ants in the Amazon build elaborating traps for other insects and they feed of them, when one insect is catches on their traps the ants emerge from hiding and pull they prey´s to immobilize them, and then they carry parts off to the colony! That is like a torture rack! I don’t can imagine that!(Cellania)

Well next week I will continue telling you more about estrange bugs, this is fascinating!

Okay have a nice weekend and good look in the partial exams!

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Bibliography
Cellania. "The Weirdest Insects in the World." Neatorama. AtTask, 8 Oct. 2007. Web. 30 Sept. 2011. <http://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/08/the-weirdest-insects-in-the-world/>.

Bugs are delicious?

Hi everyone!

Well today I will tell all the bugs that can be eaten here in Mexico, but I have to warn you that you will feel disgusted!

One of the bugs here in Mexico that many people eat is the grasshoppers, many people eat in tacos with avocado, other eta with salt and lemon, other with sauce and other they only ate in the simple way.

Other bug is the beetles and like the grasshopper they were eaten in tacos!

I don´t really like the idea that persons eat the next insect, in countries like Oaxaca, Puebla, Hidalgo and D.F they it the butterflies! I am so sad to tell this but is true they it eat in tacos, fried with sauce and guacamole.

Also another sad fact is that in Sonora and in the D.F they eat the dragonflies.

Some people eat the agave worm also known as the maguey worm, and sometimes they are included in tequila bottles as proof os authenticity of alcohol content. They are principle found in Oaxaca, D.F and in Hidalgo. I think this is kind of disgusting to know that these bugs are necessary to proof that alcohol is pure.

The next insect I think is estranging that people eat, in Mexico city and in Nayarit they eat flies like the last bugs the eat in tacos! Imagine you eating flies, disgusting!

And the last one insect is the wasp they are eating in Guerrero, Michoacán, Veracruz and Yucatan.

And all of these bugs have a lot of nutrients!

Well I hope you enjoy this post, see you next week J

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Not all the bugs you see are beautiful

Hello everyone happy Mexico Independent Day!

Well, I will review everything that is in my blog:

• ·         First I made an introduction about the bug’s collection, and   I give interest facts of thin.
• ·         Then I explained you how to make and killing jar, and all the materials you need.
• ·         And last one was of some insects that were in our infancy.

Now I will continue telling you about more insect, but now I will tell you about the poison ones, I found a video that when a saw I can believed that small bugs can cause so many deaths, I were scare please see the following video:

As we can see in the video the scientists measure the poison of an insect with the LD50.

If you see the video you can maybe have your face like OH MY GOD!, and I can understand you, is difficult to believe, now when I go to the forest or in even to the park I will be careful with the insects.

Also I notice that in the video they didn’t tell anything about spiders, and black beetles like:

• ·         Brown Recluse Spider: the bite of this spider can cause restlessness, fever, chills, nausea, weakness, and joint pain; this could happen in 24-36 hr.

• ·         Black Widow Spider: the poison of this spider affects your nervous system; other symptoms are nausea, elevated, blood pressure, sweating, tremors and increased white blood cell counts.

• ·         Blister Beetles: produce a toxic called cantharidin that if you touch can causes inflammation and blistering of internal and external body tissues.

Well I hope that the information can be helpful to you, know when you start to collecting your bugs take care of you, to not catch a poison bug and avoid the way 

to the hospital.

Have a nice weekend!              

Bibliography    

•   http://www.ncdot.org/doh/operations/division6/pdf/fieldguide.pdf 
• http://www.doityourself.com/stry/different-types-of-poisonous-bugs#b

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Fascinating Insects

Last week I was reading yours posts and I think that you would like to know about some insects that are in your daily life. So today I will talk to you about some bugs that are interesting for me, and that I suppose we play with them when we were little kids.

One beautiful and great insect is the butterfly, who is part of the family of the moths, butterflies are beautiful insects of the world, and like all insects they have the same body complexion, you can find butterflies in any environment, in hot or cold, in a mountain or in the ocean anywhere you want, but you can find more in the tropical areas. Moth is the relative of the butterfly, there is a torticid moth (in the picture of the bottom) these were found in Mexico can you imagine! In the prehispanic time.(Torticid Moth)

Now I will talk you about lady bugs, every one love them because of their colorful, spotted appearance, but some people love them(farmers), because their appetite can you imagine someone eating those beautiful insects! There are about 5,000 of these species not all of them taste equal, and talking other thing about these insects you know that the put 100 eggs in their colonies imagine! 100 eggs there are a lot.(Lady bugs, Nationa Geographic)

Other beautiful insect and that you will remember well is the stick insect this insect appear in the movie of bugs life, yeah right the one of the bottom! I love that insect. Do you know that they common name is walking stick that is a funny name for an insect, these insects are the most largest in the world the measure around 12 to 21in for an insect is a lot, you can find it in tropical areas and most of these animal are nocturnal, but in the day they are in the sticks of the trees.(Stick Insects, National Geographic)

And finally the insect that many of us in our infancy try to capture the firefly (lighting bug), is so fascinated how they can have light in the tail I love the a lot! All of us know why are they called firefly, but I think that few people know how they produce the light, well they have light organs located under their abdomen, when they breath specials cell, combine with a substance called luciferin can produce light with almost no heat, this is so awesome that when I research this, I was impacted of this little insects.(Fireflies, National Geographic)

Well is all per today I see you next week and I hope you like the topic of today.

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Bibliography

• ·         "Ladybugs, Ladybug Pictures, Ladybug Facts - National Geographic." Animals - Animal Pictures - Wild Animal Facts - Nat Geo Wild - National Geographic. Web. 01 Sept. 2011. http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/bugs/ladybug/.
• ·         "Torticid Moth | Insects.org." Insects and Bugs on the Web: Insects.org. Web. 01 Sept. 2011. http://www.insects.org/entophiles/lepi_059.html.
• ·         "Fireflies (Lightning Bugs), Firefly (Lightning Bug) Pictures, Firefly (Lightning Bug) Facts - National Geographic." Animals - Animal Pictures - Wild Animal Facts - Nat Geo Wild - National Geographic. Web. 01 Sept. 2011. http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/bugs/firefly/.
• ·         "Stick Insects, Stick Insect Pictures, Stick Insect Facts - National Geographic." Animals - Animal Pictures - Wild Animal Facts - Nat Geo Wild - National Geographic. Web. 08 Sept. 2011. http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/bugs/stick-insect/.

How to make your own killing jar!

Well today I will tell you all you need to make your own killing jar and the other material that you will need to do your bug collection

You will need:

1. 1.    Insect
2. 2.    killing jar
3. 3.    forceps
4. 4.    relaxing jar
5. 5.    spreading board and pinning block
6. 6.    insect pins and labels
7. 7.    storage box
8. 8.    masking tap

The incredible of this is that you can create your own materials like the killing jar, for this you will need a like a jelly jar empty and clean with wide mouth), an absorbent material like cotton, ethyl acetate (this is the finger nail polish remover), and a piece of cardboard cut in a circle to fit in the jar. The processes to make this is very simple in the jar place one to two inches of cotton in the bottom, but a little of ethyl acetate and try to not breathe in the fumes, put the cardboard over the cotton, seals the jar lid tightly, protect the half of the jar with masking tape to prolong the potency of killing, when is noticeable longer to kill recharge with 

more ethyl acetate.

And that ids the way that you will make your killing jar.

And answered the question of my classmate make, here is some information about the butterflies:

Trying to catch butterflies collection will give you a lot of hours of enjoyment and also will expand or start your knowledge of these insects. Remember that to start a collection you will have records of all your insects and when and where your specimen has collected with this data you will have a beautiful and scientific value collection. 

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Bibliography:

Hahn, Jeffrey. "Collecting and Preserving Insects." University of Minnesota Extension. 2002. Web. 25 Aug. 2011. <http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/youthdevelopment/da6892.html>.

Introduction About This Blog

Hello everyone!

This my blog and as I think you already notice this blog will talk about bug collection, I will show you how to make a bug collection and I will introduce you for different type of insects and what do you need and why to make a bug collection, also I will explain you step by step so you can get a beautiful bug collection I hope you enjoy.

First I will tell you a little about bug collection, you know that the International Natural Hygiene Society (INHS) has the largest bug collection? Well believe the INHS has the largest collection in North America, it includes more than 13,000 primary types, and the collection is an important national and worldwide resource.

Making an insect collection is one method of learning about insects in the process of locating, handling, and preserving insects and to do many observations about their habitat, cycles of their life and behavior of the insects. The observations that you will do can make you to understanding insects and their relationships and roles of insects in the environment.

Collections of insects are necessary to identify them. The proper identification of insects is a necessary step to properly communicate all information about them. Also is necessary that the information is truthful identifications for scientists to publish their results correctly. Without proper identification, scientific studies may be incorrect. A collection of insects can also be an element of beauty. A collection perfectly well preserved and presented can make an attractive presentation in the home or office. A display of insects often becomes a topic of conversation everywhere on display.

You can collect from many different habitats, and you will find different kinds of insect a grassy meadow compared to the forest, for example. But you can also collect for restricting habitats but vary it over the time like by season. Remember always care you camera with you if you want to document or photograph the habitat.


Bibliography

• "Collecting and Preserving Insects." Untitled Document. Web. 18 Aug. 2011. <http://bughunter.tamu.edu/appendixa.htm>.

• "Insect Collecting, Catching Insects, Sweep and Butterfly Nets, Killing Jar, Pitfall Trap."LivingWithBugs: Least-Toxic, Eco-Friendly DIY Home Pest and Garden Bug Control. Web. 18 Aug. 2011. <http://www.livingwithbugs.com/P2-0805.html>.