The Talking Planet

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The Talking Planet What’s the flower telling the butterfly? While scientists continue to explore the idea of plants “talking” to other plants, they know that plants do “talk” to insects. Plants produce chemical signals that contain important messages. A smell is a message. Flowers attract insects with fragrances that say, “Here’s food for you.” Butterflies … Read more

Planets of Plants.

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Stalk Talk(Planets of Plants.) Do plants communicate with each other? Something’s happened. You’ve shrunk to the size of a peanut. You have wings and long, floppy antennae. You are teetering on a potato leaf in a vegetable jungle. Corn, squash, and potato plants tower over you. As you can see, it’s lunchtime. And the potato … Read more

Getting The Bugs Out

Getting The Bugs Out

How can chemical signals help farmers? It’s night-your favorite time-and you’re flying through a field of tomatoes. You’re a fuzzy, brown cabbage looper moth, a male of your species. Suddenly your antennae pick up an irresistible fragrance. The message shrieks like a siren: Female! Female! Female! You make a beeline-oops, a mothlinetoward the smell. Finally, … Read more

Piranhas at Home

Picture pushing a block of clay against a wall. The clay next to the wall would be crunched upward.. The area behind where it was pushed up would buckle downward. That corresponds to the formation of the Amazon Basin, a depression in the earth that runs the length of South America east of the Andes.. … Read more

Remarkable Fish Piranhas

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Facts about the Piranha Scientific(Remarkable Fish Piranhas) Names: Scientists used to lump all piranhas under the name Serrasalmus. Now scientists think there are at least four different groups of piranhas: Serrasalmus, Pygocentrus, Pygopristis, and Pristobrycon. Of these groups, scientists have identified some 30 different piranha species. Description: Size: From 8 inches (20 centimeters) to 2 … Read more

Our Wonderful Earth

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A Heavenly Merry-Go-Round Our Solar System is only a small part of the great Universe.  Solar means “ of the sun.” A system is a plan to be followed. As we know that, The sun is the most powerful ruler of our Solar System. It is the center of our heavenly merry-go round. Old “‘ … Read more

The structure of an Insects

The structure of an Insects The fundamental difference in the structure of an insect and that of a bird or mammal is that an insect is an invertebrate—that is, it has no backbone or bone structure of any kind. The strength of the body lies in the exoskeleton which is soft in a few cases, … Read more

Insects ,The Most numerous creature in the Animal kingdom.

For convenience One tends to call almost any little creeping animal an insect, but the best way of recognizing an. insect from other creatures in the large group of Arthropoda is by counting the legs. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight and other creatures have many more. The larval forms are often legless and … Read more