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Jamie Lemminger Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle Harmonia axyridis

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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 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle

Jamie Lemminger

Multicolored Asian Lady BeetleHarmonia axyridis

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General InformationLife cycle consists of: egg, larva, pupa, adultAdults lay eggs on hosts plants in early springEggs hatch in 3-5 days and larvae resultLarvae feed on aphids and soft-bodied

arthropodsLarvae molt ~4 times-enter pupal stage last

moltDeveloping time (egg to adult) 15-25 daysSeek shelter in winter (seek lighter colors)Aren’t damaging to structuresLive in trees, row crops, orchards, and gardens-

habitat is dependent on their food.

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

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Bugscope:Up Close and Personal

Face of Multicolored Asian Beetle-Its smiling!

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Another Up Close and Personal Experience

This is a different Multicolored Asian Beetle head at a different angle.

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A Little Closer

This is an even closer look at a beetle’s eye.

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The Mouth

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

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Beetle Claw

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

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Hand Drawn Updated Multicolored Asian Beetle

(After Experiencing Bugscope)

Note: I kept the aerial view, but that should be changed as well

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Lessons to LearnStudents can learn that they’re apart of a

complex biological and physical worldBiology of bugs and other specimensBiology lesson on different types of microscopesHistory about entomologyPhysics and chemistry of the SEMSocial 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

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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/

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PerspectiveThe perspective of the SEM image is the real

image of the Multicolored Asian BeetleOther 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

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NSES Teaches…students the behavior of the Multicolored Asian Beetlethe eating habits of the Multicolored Asian Beetle and

its control of aphid population (benefits)the dependence on human structures to live through

winterhumans dependence for less pesticides in agriculturethe evolution and movement of this species in different

environments and adaptations acquired as a resultcritical 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

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The Bugs the LimitNo 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!

Note: Thank you for all the internet sites that provided information (cited earlier) as well as the images.

*THANK YOU TO THE MULTICOLORED ASIAN BEETLE FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY!