Subject Headings - Invertebrates
11 sub-topics were found for Invertebrates
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qm online Insects - Keeping Live Insects
Many insects can be kept alive in captivity to study their feeding, moulting, pupation, egg-laying and warning behaviour.
qm online Insects - Keeping Live Insects - Keeping Ants
A simple ant-farm can be set up in a large, wide-mouthed glass jar part filled with soil.
qm online Insects - Keeping Live Insects - Keeping Aquatic insects
Many insects from standing pools, such as water beetles and water bugs, keep well in aquaria.
qm online Insects - Keeping Live Insects - Keeping Butterfly caterpillars
The caterpillars of many butterfly species are easily reared to adults on fresh foliage of the correct food plant for each species.
qm online Insects - Keeping Live Insects - Keeping Field crickets
Field crickets are easily reared on a diet of dried dog food pellets and lettuce.
qm online Insects - Keeping Live Insects - Keeping Giant burrowing cockroaches
Queensland has the largest cockroach in the world - a slow-moving, subterranean beast from North Queensland. They live for up to 7 years in a container of sand.
qm online Insects - Keeping Live Insects - Keeping Grasshoppers and locusts
The flightless nymphs of the Hedge Grasshopper are easily caught and live well in cages, moulting progressively to adults.
qm online Insects - Keeping Live Insects - Keeping Harlequin bugs
Harlequin bugs are sap-sucking bugs which can be kept alive on a potted hibiscus plant.
qm online Insects - Keeping live insects - Keeping Meal worms
Meal worms are sold by pet shops. The best for class purposes is the larger Tenebrio molitor, which is one of the minor pests of stored food stuffs.
qm online Insects - Keeping live insects - Keeping Milk weed bugs
Several red and black species of the Lygaeidae live in the opening pods of milk weed plants and feed on the seeds. These can easily be collected alive by shaking infested plants into a container.
qm online Insects - Keeping Live insects - Keeping Mosquitos
A simple way to illustrate insect metamorphosis is to breed mosquitos in a glass jar.
qm online Insects - Keeping Live insects - Native bees
Native bees nests are often revealed when trees are felled. They can easily be set up in a portable hive by transferring the comb and as bees into a wooden box.
qm online Insects - Keeping Live insects - Silkworms
Silkworms are an easy way to demonstrate metamorphosis from egg to larva to pupa to adult.
qm online Insects - Keeping Live Insects - Stick insects (phasmids)
Large species of Stick Insects occur in some suburban areas. They live very well in cages supplied with suitable foliage.