Question concerning the reply:
My Favorite Creature!
This week we will have some fun exploring the amazing biodiversity on earth!
Pick one species as your favorite creature! It could be an animal, plant, fungus or bacteria. Humans and pets are excluded. Use reliable information sources to research this creature and answer at least 3 of these questions:
- Which other species is your favorite creature related to and what are some of its ancestors?
- What makes your favorite creature unique compared to other species?
- Are there any concerns about the population status of your species? Is its population affected by human activities? Explain.
- What is your favorite creature’s geographic range? In which ecosystem/biome does it live?
- How does your favorite creature fit into the food web? What does it eat? And who eats it?
You need to reply with at least 150 words to the information that’s below.
My species is the Fire Ant. Fire Ants are generally from South America but were introduced into the US in the 1940’s. A University of California Davis Genome sequence study showed that bees are more closely related to fire ants.
Bees, Fire ants and wasp are associated as Hymenopterans, or the “membrane-winged” insects. The fire ant is a social insect that is very aggressive and can sting and harm animals and people if they disturb one of their mounds. The fire ant is unique in that it is very small but can carry 20 times its weight alone.
The fire ant eats Fire ants are omnivorous. The fire ants diet can include both plant and animal material as well as live on dead insects. The foods that they consume must contains protein, fat or carbohydrates. Or other sweets. Some of the natural predators’ armadillos spiders and birds can eat fire ants but it does not impact the population negatively.
Reference
http://entoweb.okstate.edu/ddd/insects/rifa.htm
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131008102557.htm
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