Ready-to-Teach

How do flatwing males find mates without song? In what ways do their methods differ from those used by males that can produce song?

Why do most male crickets on Kauai have flat wings? Could parasitoid flies have contributed to the loss of song for male crickets?

How does the theory of island biogeography help explain the distribution of wildlife in the Cleveland Metroparks?

How does gene expression differ between human fibroblasts and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS)?

Is the length of the Bayfield harbor ice season changing over time?

What effect does the presence of a wasp have on blow fly oviposition? Do blow flies use either smell or visual clues to detect wasps?

Do female crickets respond to a newly evolved purring song as a

mating signal? Do they prefer the typical song or the purring song?

Do the two main groups of zooplankton (crustaceans and gelatinous animals) increase or decrease in response to changes in their phytoplankton food during El Niño events?

Does the environment in which a bee was raised determine its aggressiveness?

Honey bees are highly social creatures that live in large colonies of about 40,000 individuals and one queen. Every member of the hive works together to benefit the colony. Some of the tasks adult bees perform include making honey, nursing young, foraging for food, building honeycomb structures, and defending the colony.

When Charles Darwin talked about the “struggle for existence” he was making the observation that many individuals in the wild don’t survive long enough to reach adulthood. Many die before they have the chance to reproduce and pass on their genes to the next generation.