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Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle

Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle. Harmonia axyridis. Jamie Lemminger. General Information. Life cycle consists of: egg, larva, pupa, adult Adults lay eggs on hosts plants in early spring Eggs hatch in 3-5 days and larvae result Larvae feed on aphids and soft-bodied arthropods

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Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle

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  1. Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle Harmonia axyridis Jamie Lemminger

  2. General Information • Life cycle consists of: egg, larva, pupa, adult • Adults lay eggs on hosts plants in early spring • Eggs hatch in 3-5 days and larvae result • Larvae feed on aphids and soft-bodied arthropods • Larvae molt ~4 times-enter pupal stage last molt • Developing time (egg to adult) 15-25 days • Seek shelter in winter (seek lighter colors) • Aren’t damaging to structures • Live in trees, row crops, orchards, and gardens-habitat is dependent on their food.

  3. Hand Drawn Picture of the Multicolored Asian Beetle (Before Bugscope)

  4. Bugscope:Up Close and Personal Face of Multicolored Asian Beetle-Its smiling! 

  5. Another Up Close and Personal Experience This is a different Multicolored Asian Beetle head at a different angle.

  6. A Little Closer This is an even closer look at a beetle’s eye.

  7. The Mouth This technology allows investigation about bugs and other specimens due to the detail provided by the scanning electron microscope (SEM).

  8. Beetle Claw Students can be taught different lessons as a result from images of objects not normally seen with the human eye.

  9. Hand Drawn Updated Multicolored Asian Beetle(After Experiencing Bugscope) Note: I kept the aerial view, but that should be changed as well

  10. Lessons to Learn • Students can learn that they’re apart of a complex biological and physical world • Biology of bugs and other specimens • Biology lesson on different types of microscopes • History about entomology • Physics and chemistry of the SEM • Social and psychological ideas about perspective and significance can be taught and discussed. • Art class on nature and different perspectives of the world by different species

  11. Literature for Various Lessons • This is a fact sheet on the Multicolored Asian Beetle-can also be used for other bug species and the effects on agriculture: http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/br/lbeetle/ • This university’s website offers knowledge on many bug species and research with entomology: http://www.ent.iastate.edu/ • Various universities have information on SEM and how it works-possible physics course content: http://mse.iastate.edu/microscopy/home.html ; http://www.purdue.edu/REM/rs/sem.htm; http://www.itg.uiuc.edu/ms/equipment/microscopes/esem/ • Possible perspective art lessons that can be altered with Bugscope: http://mathforum.org/sum95/math_and/perspective/perspect.html ; http://library.thinkquest.org/3257/

  12. Perspective • The perspective of the SEM image is the real image of the Multicolored Asian Beetle • Other pictures found online as well as my own drawing are aerial views. • This changes how one would view and simplify the Multicolored Asian Beetle, when it is a complex organism that is involved in biological cycles • Discussing this perspective, an activity with the SEM could be incorporated to cover NSES C:Life Science Grades 9-12 – especially interdependence of organisms, evolution of organisms, and behavior of organisms

  13. NSES Teaches… • students the behavior of the Multicolored Asian Beetle • the eating habits of the Multicolored Asian Beetle and its control of aphid population (benefits) • the dependence on human structures to live through winter • humans dependence for less pesticides in agriculture • the evolution and movement of this species in different environments and adaptations acquired as a result • critical thinking skills as to what adaptations there are, how perspective changes how we think about and view organisms, how SEM technology changes our perspective or visual of the Multicolored Asian Beetle and other organisms

  14. The Bugs the Limit • No its not-plant species, someone’s blood (as we saw), nanotechnology, etc. could possibly be viewed with the SEM • Helps students visualize materials not normally seen and taught abstractly • Helps students understand the complexity of the world • Helps students see and appreciate that science is in everything in the world! *THANK YOU TO THE MULTICOLORED ASIAN BEETLE FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY! Note: Thank you for all the internet sites that provided information (cited earlier) as well as the images.

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