Have you ever wondered why flies are so attracted to us? Why do they insist on pestering us? Are they trying to suck our blood? Do they like the smell of our bodies? Are they looking for food to eat, or do they want to land on us so they can go poo or puke? What is confusing is that flies also seem to like to land on trash and poo, which is a little insulting by the way. So, my question is why do flies like people, scraps of food and poo and if a fly had to choose between the three, which one would it choose and why? My guess is that flies are mostly lost and frantically searching for a good piece of garbage to eat and to call home. First. I needed to prove that flies were more attracted to scraps of food and poo, so I had to gather a few items. I gathered 2 gloves, 2 plastic spoons and 3 paper plates, some poo, food scraps, water and a stuffed animal. At 9:00 a.m. on a Saturday, I put the 1st pair of gloves on and scooped last nights food scraps onto the 1st paper plate using the 1st spoon. I placed the plate on the front lawn. I threw …show more content…
I found 5 flies on the food scraps, 7 flies on the cow poo, zero flies on the water and zero flies on the stuffed animal. This was good proof that flies like food scraps and poo more but why? And, why do flies like food scraps, poo and people? What do they have in common? This was going to take some research. The housefly is the most common fly found in our homes. Flies look for food scraps, poo, or anything that is old to eat and lay their eggs on. After laying its eggs, it takes 8 to 20 hours for the egg to become a maggot, or tiny worm. The maggot will stay there and eat the food scraps and poo for about 5 days. Then it will worm itself to a dry place to become a fly. So, there you have it, flies land on old food scraps and poo so its babies will have something to eat while it is growing to become a fly. That makes sense. But, why do flies land on
We observed Sowbugs in multiple environments to determine which environment they preferred. The observational chamber was a rectangle box split equally in half. One side of this rectangle was filled with dry sand that had been heated for five minutes by a lamp, and the other side was filled with damp soil that did not receive the lamp heat. We placed each sowbug on the middle boarder of the cool, damp soil and the hot, dry sand. We each chose one sowbug to track, and made a record of its placement each minute for five minutes total. We repeated this process three times. After each repetition, we removed the sowbugs, and replaced them with new sowbugs to observe. After this observation, we shared, and recorded our results. The sowbugs spent
I think Fly Guy was very hungry, but he never stopped and he thing best thing to eat. Firstly, He never gave up even when everybody told him to leave and to get away from their food. In the book it states that the boy, girl, and old lady yelled at him and told him to leave. Even though they told him to leave he never stopped looking for food and his friend; Fly Guy is very brave not to give on something he wants. Secondly, I think he always love his best friend very much. In the book it said when he came home he started to look for his friend but he was nowhere to be found. This can infer that he does care about his friend. So, the moral of the story is that if you always work hard and never give up, you will get what you want.
The Pueblo’s believe “Without plants, the insects, and the animals, human beings living here cannot survive” (69). Unlike a great deal of Westernized people Silko believes it is necessary for the community to be very concerned with how the environment is conserved since they rely on it for their survival. The Pueblo even respect flies, frogs, and toads. The flies played a role in the early time of the Pueblo people: “When human beings were in a great deal of trouble, a Green Bottle Fly carried the desperate messages of human beings to the Mother Creator in the Fourth World, below this one” (69). This is where the Providential side of the Laguna Pueblo is shown, and Silko just like all other members respect those stories. The Fly saved the Pueblo from starvation and certain death so they show their gratefulness by refusing to kill another fly. According to Pueblo stories frogs and toads are considered the “Beloved children of the rain clouds” (69). If the members of the Pueblo community disrespect the frog and toads they will be punished with great floods. Leslie Silko was raised around these tails her entire life, consequently her belief is that the Pueblo community needs to shows tremendous respect to the frogs and toads, because if they fail to do so the entire community will be negatively
Both some of the original flies and some offspring died during the experiment which could have influenced the results. If a vestigial fly died before it could mate that would give the wild type males an advantage in mating and producing a greater number of offspring. This would also be the case if any flies were harmed at any time during the mating period. To try and combat this problem the next time this experiment is done a larger number of male fruit flies could be used or more samples taken to try and reduce extremes in the data. Studying fruit fly mating behavior is very important because their generation length is so short and reproduction happens rapidly.
this is the prepatent period. The worms then reside in the heart, lungs, and associated blood vessels. The worms begin to mate and release microfilaria into the blood stream. When a mosquito bites an infected dog it takes in some of the microfilaria in the blood. After 10 to 30 days there is larvae in the mosquito’s salivary gland which can then be passed on to the next dog the mosquito bites.
The rumors of its existence scare the smaller children, but also become the catalyst for Jack and his group to indulge their savageness, due to their desire to hunt it down and kill it. The boys are driven to madness because of it. This “beastie” is the titular Lord of the Flies, or Beelzebub, who in the New Testament is identified as the Devil – a symbol of evil. When one of the characters, Simon, stumbles across the beastie it is revealed that it is a pig’s head on a stick. The pig was brutally stabbed by Jack and his hunters in a frenzy, as the pig squealed in pain. This act of savagery solidifies the loss of innocence and the embracement of evil. Simon hallucinates the head talking to him. “You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?” (Golding 158) The Lord of the Flies suggests that his presence is the reason for the boys’ descent into savagery and madness, beginning with the children’s fear of the beast’s existence, followed by Jack’s brutality when killing the pig as well as his transformation into a savage, finally culminating in the frenzied murder of Simon at the hands of the children who mistake him for the beast. While they are beating Simon to death they are also chanting "Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!" (Golding 168) and dancing around him, similarly to a tribe of savages. The killing of a fellow human being is the biggest sign that evil has enveloped the hearts of the
Once in my 11th grade English class, we had to do a project about anything to do with the medieval time period. This project was worth a great deal of points. So to try to get a grade without doing anything, I went to Redners and bought an apple pie. I then brought the pie to English class and presented my project. I told them that the medieval people ate apple...
First of all, one of the easiest allusions to identify in Lord of the Flies are the dark allusions to the bible. When William Golding was a child, he was raised to forcefully learn science by an atheist father who strongly believed in rationalism and an abusive mother who shared the similar agnostic beliefs (Carey 12-14). From early on in life, he witnessed the darker side of human nature in his controlling parents and later
Flies are about at all times and it is hard to concentrate. Also, some of
Author William Golding uses Lord of the Flies to paint a picture of the internal evil of man through a variety of different mechanisms. Ralph, while being one of the most civilized boys on the island, still shows characteristics that would indicate an inherent evil. Henry also displays a darker personality, even as he practices innocent childhood activities in the sand. The island on which the story takes place holds evidence that man possesses inherent evil, seen in the way the boys corrupt and destroy the innocence and purity of the tropical oasis, and viewed in the symbolic manner in which the island's pristine exterior shields a darker inside. The use of a stick sharpened at both ends provides evidence of the savagery of the boys, and the dead parachutist shows that the boys are blinded by their internal evil and have become so villainous that they do not even recognize a human being. Golding shows throughout the novel that evil is the prevalent force within man, and that savagery takes precedence over even childhood innocence.
In every novel, an object may represent something other than what it actually is. Lord of the Flies of by William Golding has several of these objects in it. An explanation for what objects hold symbolic meaning is would be like how snow may represent delight and happiness for a child. These objects also add side stories and add detail to the novel. Three objects that hold immense symbolic meaning in Lord of the Flies are the beast, the conch, and the signal fire.
In conclusion, this whole novel is based on good versus evil. The symbolism in the novel helps to portray that as much as possible, with the conch and Ralph, Piggy, and Simon representing the “good,” and the sow’s head and Jack and his hunters representing the “evil.” One of the main themes of The Lord of the Flies is man’s inhumanity to man. It is also compared to the book of Genesis in the Bible. This novel deals with all the corruption in the world, and no matter whom you are, while reading it, you can always relate it to real life situations.
Therefore, when a corpse is recovered indoors with the eggs or larvae of flies that inhabit in sunny outdoor locations it would indicate that someone returned to the scene of the crime to move or attempt to conceal the body (Byrd, 1998-2017). Anything that could prevent insects from laying eggs in their normal time frame such as a body being frozen or wrapped up in some type of cloth or plastic it may indicate an altered species succession of insects on the body, sequence of species and their typical colonization time. When there is a complete absence of insects it could be a clue as to the sequence of postmortem
Forensic entomology is the study of insects and arthropods and their relation to a criminal investigation. Forensic entomology can determine the postmortem interval (PMI) or how long since the descendants’ death, whether the body has been moved since expiring, and what injuries may have been sustained (Ryan, 2011). When decomposition begins, insects establish a colony to lay eggs on the remains; these eggs will hatch into larvae that will eat the human organs and tissues. Forensic entomologists can determine the specific insects present in the body and estimate how long a body has been left exposed by examining the stage of development of the fly larvae; however, these findings are not always plausible. The fly larvae look and act different at each stage of development. The time required for stage development is not only affected by environmental influences such as geographical location, climate, and weather conditions, but also by type of insect. The forensic entomologist must consider these conditions when estimating the postmortem interval. Knowledge of insects, their life cycles, and their habits make entomological evidence a priceless tool for an investigation. Forensic entomology has proved its significance in a number of cases; though circumstances such as weather, temperature, and time of year clearly affect the development of insect infestation, and the expert must keep these in the forefront of his/her mind (Innes, 2000).
The main theme William Golding focuses on in The Lord of the Flies is his opinion that, when taken away from a civilised society, people will revert back to being primitive, animal like creatures. He portrays this view throughout the book by using very different characters almost all of whom eventually forget their civilised ways. The book tells the story of a group of school boys who, after their plane crashes, are stranded on a tropical island without any adults. At first they seem enthusiastic about the situation and quickly elect one of the boys, Ralph, as a leader, but pretty soon things start to deteriorate. Another one of the boys, Jack, leaves the group to form his own tribe who become more and more violent and obsessed with hunting pigs and "the beast", that they believe lives on the island. Their violence results in the killing of two of the other boys, and at the end of the book they try to kill Ralph before all being rescued by a naval officer. The title of the book comes from an episode where Simon, a shy boy, who is described by the others as "batty" hallucinates that the dead pig's head in front of him is talking to him. The pig's head is surrounded by flies, so Simon calls it the Lord of the Flies. The title could also have another more symbolic meaning, because as time goes on the boys become more like flies themselves. Ralph, the main character in the story is introduced to the reader as a fair and likeable boy, he is the only boy who will listen to Piggy, an overweight boy who is ridiculed by everyone else for being fat and because he wears glasses and suffers from asthma, even though he is the most intelligent of all the boys. When he finds a conch, a type of shell, Ralph listens to Piggy's suggestion to "use this to call the others. Have a meeting. They'll come when they hear us." At the start Ralph is well respected and looked up to by the rest of the boys, who choose him as their chief. "There was a stillness about Ralph as he sat that marked him out: there was his size, and attractive appearance; and most obscurely, yet most powerful, there was the conch." The respect the boys had held for Ralph did not last for long.