mealworms imformation?
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Mealworms Fast Facts:\n\narthropods \nover 75% of world's animal species are arthropods \narthropods have firm external skeleton (exoskeleton), segmented body and several pairs of jointed legs \nmealworms are the larval stage of the grain, or flour beetle - also called darkling beetle \nmealworms easily raised in classroom \ncan be used as fish bait \ncan be a source of food for other animals such as frogs and toads \nthey prefer undisturbed places \ncan live in an environment where dry grain food source (ie. flour, oatmeal, etc.) it available; this can include barns, grain elevators, flour mills, warehouses \ndarkling beetles have a complete metamorphosis: \nCheck out this site...\nhttp://www.cssd.ab.ca/tech/science/lifec/animallifec/mealworms_information.htm
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Caterpillars are eating machines - that's what they do, that's all they do. Cabbage butterfly (Pieris rapae) larvae (known as cabbageworms or imported cabbageworms) go through five instars in about 15 days. Each instar is a molt - the caterpillar sheds its skin for a larger one. The size of the five instars averages 3.2mm, 8.8mm, 14.0mm, 20.2mm, and 30.1mm, respectively. The 5th instar larva does the most feeding - perhaps more than all other life stages together. \n\nThese larvae are famous for producing gross quantities of fecal material, so they probably eat quite a bit compared to their body weight. But all of that crap may also mean that the leaves are not very nutritious, so they need to eat a lot to get what they need. If a caterpillar receives more or less nutrition at every meal, less or more foliage is required to kick in the hormones that trigger a molt to the next instar and finally pupation. \n\nCabbageworms feed on many plants, including cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, turnip, radish, kale, nasturtium, lettuce, collards, turnip greens, rutabaga, kohlrabi and mustard greens. Many of these plants, and their different cultivated varieties, produce waxy leaves or contain nasty chemicals to deter caterpillar feeding - there's a huge variety. So the answer to your question depends on what plant these caterpillars are eating - the host plant and the variety, if it's been bred. Confounding variables probably include average day and night temperature, perhaps the amount of rainfall, cultivation practices, fertilization, time of season, etc. So there'll be many different measures that answer this question. It's to be expected though - anything to do with life has huge variablitlity.\n\nYou need a literature search of entomological journals. Without doubt, researchers have reared larvae in the lab and measured the feeding of each instar on a variety of plants. Field data will be entirely different, of course. The databases that contain this information are pay sites, see, for example, the Entomological Society of America's Journal of Economic Entomogy, the Canadian Entomologist is good for this kind of thing too. You can also find these at a university biological sciences library.
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If it has no visible head (except darker mandibles) and no legs, it is a fly larva, most likely Brachycera, the most common sub order of flies (house flies, blow flies, etc.). It is difficult to determine the exact species, or even family for that matter without seeing it under a scope with a key. It is most likely some species of flesh fly or blow fly, their larvae tend to be very mobile, althought they typically dont travel very far, so the source of your maggot problem may be or possibly was not too long ago, just outside the area where they are coming in by. If they depleted their food resource, typically rotting flesh or dung, they will sometimescrawl away in search of more food....\n\nhope this helps!
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It could be a Luna Moth caterpillar. Here is website that describes and shows a picture of one:\n\nhttp://www.hiltonpond.org/ThisWeek020801.html\n\nHere is a site with a picture of a tomato worm:\n\nhttp://www.kalilily.net/weblog/04/07/27/203436.html
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Ignore the people who can't seem to get past whether a question is formulated perfectly or not.  Most of the rest of us and, the world for that matter, seem to be able to understand what you are asking about.\n\nA Yahoo Image Search shows pictures of the worm (larva or caterpillar) itself.  You can get pictures of the moths using the order and family.  But they aren't the exact match.\nHipopta agavis\nhttp://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?ei=UTF-8&fr=slv1-wdgt&p=Hipopta%20agavis\nlepidoptera cossidae\nhttp://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=lepidoptera%20cossidae&ei=UTF-8&fr=slv1-wdgt&x=wrt\n\nThe Wikipedia article gives some details on the worm but, alas, no pictures.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipopta_agavis
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Do you mean Gobbleworming? That is eating worms too fast.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parelaphostrongylus_tenuis\n\nMorphology\n\nRoundworms are triploblastic protostomes with a complete digestive system. Roundworms have no circulatory or respiratory systems so they use diffusion to breathe and for circulation of substances around their body. They are thin and are round in cross section, though they are actually bilaterally symmetric. Nematodes are one of the simplest animal groups to have a complete digestive system, with a separate orifice for food intake and waste excretion, a pattern followed by all subsequent, more complex animals. The body cavity is a pseudocoel (persistent blastula), which lacks the muscles of coelomate animals used to force food down the digestive tract. Nematodes thus depend on internal/external pressures and body movement to move food through their digestive tracts. The mouth is often surrounded by various flaps or projections used in feeding and sensation. The portion of the body past the anus or cloaca is called the "tail." The epidermis secretes a layered cuticle made of keratin that protects the body from drying out, from digestive juices, or from other harsh environments, as well as in some forms sporting projections such as cilia that aid in locomotion. Although this cuticle allows movement and shape changes via a hydrostatic skeletal system, it is very inelastic so does not allow the volume of the worm to increase. Therefore, as the worm grows, it has to moult and form new cuticles. The cuticles don't allow volume to increase so as to keep hydrostatic pressure inside the organism very high. For this reason, the roundworms do not possess circular muscles (just longitudinal ones) as they're not required. This hydrostatic pressure is the reason the roundworms are round.\nMost free-living nematodes are microscopic, though a few parasitic forms can grow to several meters in length. There are no circular muscles, so the body can only undulate from side to side. Contact with solid objects is necessary for locomotion; its thrashing motions vary from mostly to completely ineffective at swimming.\nRoundworms generally eat bacteria, algae, fungi and protozoans, although some are filter feeders. Excretion is through a separate excretory pore.\nReproduction is usually sexual. Males are usually smaller than females (often very much smaller) and often have a characteristically bent tail for holding the female for copulation. During copulation, one or more chitinized spicules move out of the cloaca and are inserted into genital pore of the female. Amoeboid sperm crawl along the spicule into the female worm.\nEggs may be embryonated or unembryonated when passed by the female, meaning that their fertilized eggs may not yet be developed. In free-living roundworms, the eggs hatch into larva, which eventually grow into adults; in parasitic roundworms, the life cycle is often much more complicated.\nRoundworms have a simple nervous system, with a main nerve cord running along the ventral side. Sensory structures at the anterior end are called amphids, while sensory structures at the posterior end are called phasmids.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nematode\n\n\nHope that helps!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrimp_farm\nCheck this.... it may be an introduction
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Oh well, with that information it's easy to identy. \n\nThe  creature is Biplaium kewense. They are commonly known as "worm killers".  See the link below for some photos\n\nAs others have guessed it is a planarian. Worm killers are an exotic pest species imported from Viet Nam in the soil of potted plants. They are carnivorous and hunt earthworms and small insects. They immobilise their prey by coating them with that slime they secrete and then stick a tube into them and suck their insides out.\n\nBTW, well spotted that it uses it's head like a sensor. That is exactly what they do. There are pits under the head that act like a nose that enables the animal to track earthworms, slugs and other prey animals.
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http://www.insects.org/\nhttp://www.bugbios.com/entophiles/index.html\nhttp://www.projects.ex.ac.uk/bugclub/bugid.html
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Wives tale.  Only ingesting the larvae of worms will give you the infection.  The usual method of infection is oral-fecal, meaning you ate something that wasn't washed properly or you didn't wash your hands after touching microscopic amounts of feces with larvae in it.
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Platyhelminthes or Chaetognathas \n\nSimply put...worms\n\nThe reason no one has been getting this riddle is because the original poster made a mistake with the letter clue.
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A fake Zoomer black worm.-Largemouth\n\nOr just use a live earthcrawler.-Smallmouth
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Umm...I've been making jokes about larval humans for years, so I had to laugh. Bugs have larval stages, but vertebrates don't. The larval stage is the maggot stage. In humans, some people refer to that as "middle school"...but that's only when we look back as adults. Kids these days have evolved and aren't nearly so maggoty as we once were ;)
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I can't find anything on that - looks like you are going to have to do an experiment.  You can find earthworms at any bait store, colored light bulbs at the nearest Wal Mart.  have fun!
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sounds like a parasitic worm, try using your search engine.
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yikes.. okay..\ngrasshoppers, praying mantis, butterflies,mosquitos, dragonflies, gnats, ticks, mites, blackflies, deerflies, spiders,russian wheat aphid, english grain aphid, brown wheat aphid, brown cherry oat( this is an insect)Hessian fly,sorghum greenbugs, winter grain mite,cereal leaf beetle\nbees,wasps, weevils, wheat stem maggots, wheat curl mite,banks grass mite, two spot spider mite,wire worm, cinch bug, false wire worm, false cinch bug,corn leaf aphid,\nDifferential grasshopper, migratory grasshopper, two striped grasshopper, red legged grasshopper, cutworm, black cutworm, dingy cutworm, glassy cutworm,armyworm,western bean cutworm, bronzed cutworm,varigated cutworm, army cutworm,fall armyworm,pale western cutworm*** all of the cutworm species, transform into their own moth..so as well as the cutworm you would now for example have the dingy cutworm moth..* saltmarsh moth, corn earworm, european corn borer, green cloverworm, grain weevils.\n\nThe list goes on and on.. but if you need to find more, do a search for grassland insects..